Brigitte Schuster

Favela - Ilha de Deus

  • project: documentary photography. The project is part of a multidisciplinary art project (Editorial Design, Fashion design)
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  • collaboration: The project group *Carangejo Uca (Recife, Brazil), Brazilian photographer Isaías Belo
  • support: Casa do Brasil inc., Munich, Germany
  • 2004/2005
  • The photo series on the people of FAVELA - Ilha de Deus and their surroundings in Recife [Brazil] is a photo documentation with interviews of an extremely poor community. Part of it is also the pinhole photography collaboration project with Brazilian photographer Isaías Belo. During the photo exhibit designer t-shirts and fabric bags were offered to the public to help supporting the *Caranguejo Uca. This in Brazil located project group promotes the social, economic, political and cultural growth of the FAVELA - Ilha de Deus projects.
  • exhibition: Eine-Welt-Haus in Munich, Germany, 2005.
  • publication: Article in German-Brazilian magazine BRAZINE, No. 13, which circulates in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 2005.

slum houses, from the the multidisciplinary art project 'Favela - Ilha de Deus' including documentary photography of a slum in Recife/Bresil.

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Brigitte Schuster
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2006-02-20