photos from rio

Taken from a Kuro5hin.org article:

Nat Friedman (a GNOME Project's hacker) posted about a very interesting project he led during his vacations in Rio: visiting Rocinha (one of the - if not the - largest slums in Brazil), he handed out disposable cameras to a bunch of kids and got some great results, as he states: "The return rate was pretty good; many of the kids were waiting in the street from 7am to noon for us to pick up their cameras. We got 26 back out of maybe 32 we handed out. This amounted to 632 photos. Many of them are excellent, especially for someone who's probably never used a camera before, and with a cheap disposable. Some are sad, some are funny."

The photos can be found here. Don't be discouraged by the tech stuff. Just scroll down until you see the words "In January I spent a couple weeks in Rio..." and start read.

I'm particularly struck by this set of images. The boy in the first photo is the one taking the other pictures.

-lelandpaul