Volume 16 Issue 5
Bible Babies
Managed by their parents, on tour 365 days a year, and charging $900 for a two-hour sermon, child preachers are big business in Brazil. Each event is a finely tuned marketing maneuver promoted with posters, magazine coverage, and radio ads.
Torsos Of The Amazon
Hey, guess what? Not all Brazilian women are supermodels with perfectly taut bubble asses from which you can bounce a quarter two feet into the air! I know, right? Shocking.
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer is on the infinitesimally short list of people who have designed and built an entire city. A world capital.
More Brazilian Girls In Bikinis Shot By A Brazilian Photographer
Photos by Marcelo Gomes Styling by Leticia Toniazzo
Squat Thrusts
The Prestes Maia building was once home to the largest concentration of squatters in Latin America. Condemned and abandoned for 12 years, the once-glorious skyscraper became an infested shithole.
A Brazilian In... Tokyo & New York
I was born to an Italian-Brazilian-Portuguese mother and a Japanese father in Piracicaba, a small city in the southeast countryside of Brazil.
A Brazilian In... Milan & New Zealand
In São Paulo I took a course in styling while I worked on a social project at the university. After a while I’d had enough and decided to move here.
The Sapo Diaries
In the Amazon rain forest, there lives a very special frog called the Phyllomedusa bicolor, otherwise known as the Sapo. Traditionally, the Mayoruna tribe uses this frog’s gooey secretions to gain superpowers.
Bloody Memories
Better known as Carandiru, it was once the largest prison on the continent. On October 2, 1992, a massive fight broke out between prisoners that ultimately resulted in 111 inmate deaths.
Plowboys And Indians
Rita, an indigenous Piripkura Indian, speaks only rudimentary Portuguese, and I can’t understand her native language, Tupi-kawahib, any better than I can pronounce its name.
A Brazilian In... Berlin & Copenhagen
In high school I had a French boyfriend, and after graduation I went to live with him in Paris. When that didn’t work out, I moved to Germany, where part of my family comes from.
A Brazilian In... Paris & Melbourne
In São Paulo in 1978. My dad, who’s a British native, used to work in a slaughterhouse. He’s part of the dynasty that imported zebus into Brazil.