Carnival 2020 - Beija Flor de Nilópolis
Parade
Old school
Last rehearsal at the Beija-Flor court
February 2nd is the day to greet the queen of the sea from Salvador da Bahia... it's fisherman's day...
Feast of Yemanja 2019 - pictures of Kithi
Some scenes are stories narrated by the mixed people the crowd.
From a distance I admired her with my lens and she didn't see it, when she saw it she broke out into a smile and covered her face in shame! A joy this moment. Without knowing each other we completed an intense conversation!
Their way of greeting Yemanjá was another, the joke. In the midst of the people, the ball guides the photograph.
In a fraction of a second the ball takes another direction and the race for the ball brings those who used to play alone together.
The children of the sea are covered in blue.
All well taken care of to gift the queen of Yemanjá. Flowers without thorns, plastic removed and kept, prayer and lavender to perfume the sea.
THE c a r n a v a l 2 0 18 arrived and joy took over Pelourinho... Working for Read More
And Bira Reis, the one who combined blow and percussion and transformed Bahia's carnival; the one that made the streets of Pelô the home of its rhythms so tangled up with "people" from all over the world; the one I was always sure of the joy of the encounter when stepping on Pelô; moved to another plane, but from here I hear him making sound in the other dimension. 2018 was the last carnival in Bira Reis and I was there! Below is a memory of that eternal moment.