Favelas are low-income communities scattered throughout Brazil’s urban areas.🇧🇷
Houses densely cover enormous hillsides, with narrow alleyways weaving through the gaps between them.
From the hillside, Rio de Janeiro’s sun-drenched bay and deep blue sea stretch far into the distance, while at night, Christ the Redeemer on Corcovado Mountain glows white against the darkness.
Amid this landscape, the ordinary lives unfolding day after day in the favelas, the gunfights between gangs, the drug trade, and AfroReggae’s musical activities that continue to this day all seem as fleeting as a dream.🫧