Selva de Pedra

40,00 €

Format: 200 x 280 mm
Pages: 156
Paper: Arena Natural Smooth gr. 120 + Arena White Smooth gr. 140
Language: Italian
Paperback: hardcover with black thread-stitched paperback
Printing: digital 4+4

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Selva de Pedra

Selva de pedra (concrete jungle) is São Paulo. Selva de pedra is my journey through the lights and contrasts of this city, where I moved six years ago. It tells the stories of those living on the margins of São Paulo, Brazil’s financial capital, a megalopolis in whose metropolitan area more than twenty million people live. I have explored corners of the city far from the tourist routes; met large families crammed into suburban shacks; followed commuters from one side of the city to the other; found urban natives fighting over a fistful of land; met the inhabitants of a neighborhood where crack is consumed and sold; watched sweaty bodies wear out during carnival. Selva de pedra is a very personal and real reading of the city of São Paulo and Brazil today.

 

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Luca Meola

After graduating with a degree in Sociology, Luke began working with a number of NGOs as a social worker in marginal settings. Throughout 2003 he lived in Bolivia, where he coordinated a shelter for street children and, in the same year, developed an initial photographic reportage later exhibited in a number of Italian cultural centers. From 2004 to 2010 he simultaneously pursued his work as a social researcher at Codici, an independent agency in Milan, and his work as a photographer. Since 2010 he decided to devote himself exclusively to photography, continuing to collaborate with third sector associations. In 2012 he was in Senegal to document the daily lives of some young wrestlers, a project that was awarded and exhibited at Voies Off de les Rencontres de Arles. Since the end of 2014 Luca has moved to Brazil, from where he collaborates as a photojournalist for some international magazines. Since 2016, he has been represented by the photo agency Luz, and since 2018 he has joined the storytelling community Everyday Project. His interest in subaltern and marginal contexts has led him to develop a daily documentation of São Paulo's Crackland in recent years. This work earned him, in 2021, the Colonna Award at Sifest, first prize at the Urban Photo Award in Trieste, and the Prêmio Militão Augusto de Azevedo from the Museo da Cidade in São Paulo. In March 2021, his first photo book “Selva di Pedra” was published, collecting years of exploration in the most extreme settings in São Paulo.

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