"A Gente Transforma" (literally "We Transform"), is a project idealized by Marcelo Rosenbaum, developed with the community and Rosenbaum's team: 47 people that included designers, students, volunteers, film-makers, journalists, spiritual leaders, architects, and me, as the photographer. During a few weeks, the work was developed in Várzea Queimada, a drought-plagued Piauí community of 900 people of mixed indigenous and black ancestry, at Piauí State, Brazil. To see images from the catalogue developed during this project, check out the images: CATALOGO TOCA: http://bit.ly/NCDDvL

Commissioned work for the Sunday Times Travel. Icons of South America: Two to Tango.

Brazilian BR-163 Highway, which is slated to be paved as an exportation corridor for soybeans via the Amazon River, traverses an area that is largely outside of Brazilian government control. A climate of generalized lawlessness and impunity prevails, and matters related to environment and to land tenure are especially unregulated. These images were taken in Mato Grosso and Pará states, along the BR-163, between Cuiabá and Santarém cities.