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World Cup preview for ESPN Magazine

Check out the lastest issue of ESPN's magazine on the World Cup. I traveled to Sao Paulo to find this residential street covered in Brazil's national colors to photograph the preview. Gabriel, pictured, here, was my main soccer star. He eventually got hurt (tough kid!) but bounced back quickly, waving his country's flag and kicking the ball. If he saw this picture, it would have made up some old game wounds :0) 

Brigitte's Buzios

I made my first trip to Buzios  alone - the one time sleepy fishing village where Brigitte Bardot escaped to in the 1960s turned chiquey vacation getaway for honeymooners - but I was lucky to meet all some of the wonderful local Buzio's characters that made this a memorable assignment for Hemispheres Magazine. 

For KLM's inflight magazine: Holland Herald

Wonderfully written story on Undercover Rio by my colleague Taylor Barnes featuring Rio's historical neighborhoods and off the beaten path places to explore (and some of my favorites as well)! It was a fun journey photographing this assignment. The Portuguese festa was a blast, even though the pictures didn't make the cut. And Rio Antigo is full of hidden gems. 

Mani Restaurant for Monocle Magazine

Former model "Helena Rizzo first met her partner Daniel Redondo when they were both working in a prestigious Spanish restaurant. Having returned to her native Brazil, the couple now runs one of São Paulo’s best restaurants."

 

Special Edition Brazil for the Observer Magazine

 Voice of Brazil, Special edition for the Sunday Observer Magazine

"Having gone from poverty to parliament via Big Brother and Brazil's first gay-rights election platform, Jean Wyllys must rank among the most postmodern of politicians."

 

"Inês Ferreira de Abril's position in the community where she lives and works is halfway between guru and local hero. Walking through the tight red-brick maze of the Borel-Indiana favela, a poor settlement of some 20,000 just a 10-minute cab ride from Rio's Maracana Stadium, she is stopped every five minutes by well-wishers and those seeking advice."

 

"Major Pricilla – as she is best known – is the friendly, positive face of the pacification programme that she has helped to spearhead. She is in charge of hundreds of officers in one of the most violent police forces on the planet and is playing a prominent role in trying to shift perceptions of their tole."

Portraits for El Pais Magazine

Last month I photographed Wagner Mouro, Brazil's most adored actor (and famously known in Elite Squad), and the president of Petrobras, Maria das Graça Foster. 

 

And some of my favorite selects from both assignments.

 

 

Ethanol production in Brazil for the Washington Post

Last October I was assigned by the Washington Post for a story on the ethanol facilities, including the sugarcane farms that blanket miles and miles of bright red soil in the state of Goias, Brazil. Long gone are the back breaking manual labor, these days the major ethanol corporations use machines to cut sugarcane, operated by some of the same men who once cut the stalks by hand. 

Story: Setbacks for Brazil's Ethanol Sector

Gallery: sugarcane

Bossa Nova for New York Times

I just received this clip and so stoked to see so many pictures from a really fun assignment. I also discovered two great venues from this story that I now regularly visit. Click on the link to read more about music in Rio de Janeiro. 

Where Bossa Nova is Just the Start

Brazil's Romario for NYT

"One of Brazil’s biggest soccer stars is now the Brazilian World Cup’s biggest critic?" Read more here:

Romario, a World Cup Champion, Is now a World Cup Dissenter

 

Bruna Costa for the Guardian of London Weekend Magazine

"Over the Rainbow: What is it like to be gay around the world?" is a portrait series of people from around the world sharing their thoughts and opinions about the challenges (or not) of being gay in their country.

I photographed Bruna Costa, 27, a Carioca (a resident of Rio de Janeiro). Please click on the image or the link above to read about Bruna.

Wind Energy for the Washington Post

In October I went to the interior of Bahia state, a region far from the turquoise blue waters near the capital of Salvador. The region is hot, and windy. So windy in fact it has become the perfect setting for wind turbines because of its unique constant flow of wind across this region. Please check out the story: In Brazil, the wind is blowing in a new era of renewable energy.

Gallery: Wind Energy in Brazil

Archive: Bahia's Wind Power

Die Zeit's Rio correspondent

Lead image of Rio de Janeiro for a column written about Die Zeit's Rio correspondent Thomas Fischermann, who I work with regularly.

Sergio Rodrigues for Monocle Magazine

Sergio and I love the same ice cream. Chocolate and hazelnut.

The "Father of Brazilian furniture," they say, Mr Rodrigues pioneered the transformation of industrial design in Brazil. The shoot was for  Last Meal column, which featured his favorite restaurant and dish, in his native city of Rio de Janeiro. 

Moving to the Rhythms of Rio for the New York Times

Fun story on music in Rio de Janeiro - 

For Culinary Backstreets - Rio

Food shoot for an online food mag featuring a local gem in the city center.

"The venue has developed one of the city’s most extensive beer menus to accompany its creative twists on the typical foods of Brazil’s Northeast – a region multitudes of migrants left in the last century, seeking a better life the country’s more prosperous Southeast." - Taylor Barnes

Read the story here: Aconchego Carioca