These images are part of a documentation that I have been conducting, produced at one of Brazil’s largest indigenous celebrations. They use to take place in Bertioga, a city just over 100 kilometers from São Paulo, the largest city in South America. The encounter brings together nearly 600 representatives from many distant regions of Brazil to celebrate in a large cultural festival. It is a spectacle at which they present and reinforce the traditions of their different native ethnic groups.

22 familes were living at Itacoatiara Mirim, a Baniwa Indigenous Community nearby the remote São Gabriel da Cachoeira town, at the Amazonas Brazilian state. Seeking to recover and keep alive their cultural traditions after leaving the original tribe, the group built this "Maloca", also known as House of Knowledge. "The House is an area of transmission and learning of the traditional culture for those who do not know, or forgot. It's to talk, to tell stories, reliving the custom to eat together. A place to dance and make instruments, showing to the young our culture" explained Mestre Luiz Laureano, the community leader. "The House of Knowledge is also to receive relatives who come from the original tribe to share the stories of our families who are still living there. Is a school that will pass knowledge. " São Gabriel da Cachoeira town, Amazonas state, Brazil.

Arturos' Celebration Congado and Mozambique are cultural and religious manifestations blending aspects of the Catholicism with African traditions. These festivities take place in some regions of Brazil. One of the most traditional is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, which happens in the traditional community Arturos. Called as Arturos, approximately 400 people who reside in a collective farm in the state of Minas Gerais, in the central Brazil. The Arturos are all related to each other, descendants of Arthur Camilo Silverio, a former slave who inherited the farm where now lives the community. Here, residents keeps alive the ancient festivities brought to Brazil, hundreds of years ago by the African slaves.

The VII World Social Forum was beginning at Nairobi city in 2007. Kenya had just left behind several years of its dictatorial regime, and was starting to experience some democracy. More than 50 000 people from everywhere around the world were joined together for 6 days to assist conferences. It was the first time the World Social Forum took place in Africa. The Forum is usually held at the same time than its opponent, the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. Thousands of activists from all over the world attended the WSF meeting at Kasarani Stadium to discuss and debate social issues. Based on the slogan "Another world is possible" ("Dunia Mbadala Yawezekana"), the WSF is an annual meeting organized by members of the alter-globalization movement. This is a showcase of what I've seen those days, in 2007, a few sides of Kenya. A home of hope, but also of fear.