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Ordem e progresso - photos from the Invention of Brazil

in Rio, Salvador, Sao Paolo and Itu

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Street traffic in Sao Paulo, on the Praça de Republica.

Sao Paulo is the biggest city in South America, and the economic powerhouse of Brazil.

  • Misha and some street-art in the favela of Rocinha
  • The favela of Rocinha in Rio.
  • Misha meets Anthopologist Peter Fry in Rocinha
  • Ipiranga
  • The girls from Ipanema go walking.
  • Estação da Luz, a train station built by the British.
  • Street art in a bus shelter in Sao Paolo
  • Street traffic in Sao Paulo, on the Praça de Republica.
  • At the Memorial do Imigrante in Sao Paulo
  • Salvador at dusk - in the Pelourinho in Salvador de Bahia
  • Shaving in a tributary of the Amazon
  • The view from Misha's window, over the favela of Rocinha
  • Caiparinhas all round! It's Brazil's national cocktail
  • Statue in Itu of Bandeirante Domingos Fernandes
  • Misha with a cheery waiter from the German restaurant in Itu.
  • Misha and journalist David Baker, who met on a stormy evening outside Rio.
  • High-Tec: Inside the studios of REDETV
  • Misha meets Americo Martins of REDETV
  • Ana Maria Machado, former President of the Academy of Letters
  • The English Cemetery in Rio
  • Journalist turned best-selling historian Laurentino Gomez, at home.
  • Colourful Brazillian statues, in Itu