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Originally Posted by allegre_looking
Hi,
I'm a student study urban development and am currently writing a project on Porto Alegre (i'm aware my name is spelt wrong). As part of the project I need to include photos to illustrate my point and though I have found plenty i on this board many of them seem to have gone dead/ been taken down etc. So if any one has any Porto Alegre pictures they would be willing to let me use could you please post them here or email them to me at paul.crouch@durham.ac.uk. I'm particularly trying to emphasise the contrast between the modern skyscrapers etc and the favellas but i'm have some problems finding favella photos (the thread with those in seems to have gone dead) so if anyone has any favella pictures or ones which my illustrate that point i would be really greatful.
Thanks
Paul
P.S. your photos are amazing |
hmm... now I finished reading your post. The eternal first world wonderment about Brazil´s favelas.
Funny that you decided to make such research about Porto Alegre, which is one of the brazilian capitals with smaller and fewer favelas.
Anyway, in one of the pics I posted below, of Porto Alegre seen from far away, you can see a favela between Novo Hamburgo and São Leopoldo (thats Porto Alegre metro area)
I will link you to some threads showing favelas from Porto Alegre, at skyscrapercity. Most people there speak english, so ask questions there.
Vila dos Papeleiros and COHAB. The COHAB part is a poor neighborhood in the city of Lajeado, not Porto Alegre. But Vila dos Papeleiros is the most miserable shantytown in Porto Alegre.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=439319
unfortunatelly, there was a big thread about Vila Cruzeiro, the biggest favela in Porto Alegre. But the forumer who took the pictures, PortoImagem (the same guy who owns the site
www.portoimagem.com) was banned from SSC for... hmmm... being maybe a bit xenophobic of people from outside Rio Grande do Sul state. And when he was banned, he broke the links to all his photos in hundreds of threads lol. Talk about revenge. He had some of the best Porto Alegre photos ever.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=vila+cruzeiro
probably the best Porto Alegre photos thread EVER, when the best brazilian photographer-forumer ever, Gutooo, visited Porto Alegre last year.
This thread is a MUST VISIT. Gutooo also loves to take pictures of people in the streets
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=552434