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Watcher is Arrested
Bruno Rodrigues da SIlva is a "watcher" and his job is to watch out for the police and let the drug dealers know their every movement within the favela. He is 21 years old and was caught with army boots, a radio transmitter, a water bottle and army clothes for camouflage.
Location: Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, drugs, police
Incursion into Favela
Military police officer during an incursion in the favela. A mother, father and newborn baby leave their house during the incursion. There were 1200 police officers in strategic points inside Rocinha and several daily incursions during the drugs war.
Location: Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, drugs, police, Rio de Janeiro
Arrested Drug Dealer Talks to Mother
Bruno Rodrigues da Silva, watcher and drug dealer, talks to his mother and girlfriend before he is taken to the police station.
Location: Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, drugs, police
Watching
Dona Carmen and her son watching the moment at the front of the favela during the drugs war. I asked her what she thought, she said: "It's all so sad, but I have to stay here because I have nowhere else to go".
Location: Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, drugs, Rio de Janeiro
Shot Drug Dealer in a Wheelbarrow
Maurinho was a drug dealer belonging to the 'Red Command'. He was 26 years old and was shot by the police after a confrontation in one of the favela's alleys, during a police incursion. Maurino is being carried in a wheelbarrow by a police officer.
Location: Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, drugs, police
Shot Drug Dealer in a Wheelbarrow 2
Maurinho was a drug dealer belonging to the 'Red Command'. He was 26 years old and was shot by the police after a confrontation in one of the favela's alleys, during a police incursion. Maurino is being carried in a wheelbarrow by a police officer.
Location: Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, drugs, police
Arrest
Location: Brazil
Image tags: Brazil, police
Terra Encantada 5
Location: Terra Encantada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Image tags: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Terra Encantada 3
Location: Terra Encantada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Image tags: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Talavera 7
Location: Talavera Bruce, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Image tags: Brazil, children, prison
Prison Washing Line
Washing line at the prison's main courtyard
Location: Talavera Bruce, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, prison
Praying in Prison
Washing line at the prison's main courtyard
Location: Talavera Bruce, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, prison, religion
Rita de Cassia Photo Album
Rita de Cassia looks at her photo album of when she was free.
Location: Talavera Bruce, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, prison
Breno at Prison Creche
Breno starting to walk at the prison's creche
Location: Talavera Bruce, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, prison, children
Baby with HIV
Daniel da Silva-Negão was born HIV+ at the prison's creche. His mother's sentence is around three years, so Negão has already gone to his mother's family at the favela Rocinha, while she finishes another two years in prison. Negão was never breastfed and he is still undergoing the threatment against AIDS developing in his body.
Mother & Child
Location: Brazil
Image tags: Brazil, children
Location: Talavera Bruce, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: AIDS, HIV, Brazil, prison, children
Lucilene and her Children
Lucilene and her children in their hut at Terra Encantada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Location: Terra Encantada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photographer: Genna Naccache
Image tags: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro