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You know what? The first thing is that this side of Vargem Grande still looks a lot like my farm to me, like my countryside. I’m from a farm. It still looks a lot like it, there are still banana trees, a lot of things… there’s a lot of nature still, isn’t there. I keep

My name is Joao dos Santos, I’m 59 years old, and I’m a general services assistant. [Do you know what your previous address was?] Rua Francisco Lane, 32 [And now?] Now I’m here with her, my wife. It was Nelson Piqui, number 9. Now I’m here in this container while they build the house they

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My name is Jane Nascimento, I’m 59, I deal with art and design for a living. That painting there, I painted it. This news had already come out before I went to live in Vila Autodromo, in the 90s. I came to live here and I had already seen the meetings, about evictions, about the

They came to take us out. But there was always someone around, a prosecutor or someone, who would say “no, you can’t do that.” You have to send everyone to the big house, knowing that in front of there, everyone was going to see. There was always someone, who when they saw the big houses

Ivanilda Galdino, 41, maid   If I never had to go back to my house ever again, as basic as it was, for me that would be good. I left my house and went to another. I was in Providencia, but it was on social rent, then I found another in Caju.   [Why did

Isonelson da Silva, 50, driver, and Miriam Nascimento da Silva, 30, craftswoman Isonelson: We lied in the Metro favela [Metro Mangueira] and we came directly here. Our house was a living room, a bedroom, and a small kitchen with a bathroom. [How long did you live there for?] Miriam: A year and a half [How

I didn’t shed a single tear, and until now I don’t know how I didn’t, because I am a crier. I didn’t shed a tear. The whole time, I held my head up high, and even inspected their work to see if they were knocking it down correctly. And that was what they couldn’t swallow,

I have been in Mangueira since I came to Rio. I came in 1988, I have always lived round here but I have a lot of pride of where I’m from. But I didn’t want to leave my community. My name is Francicleide da Costa Souza, I am 45 years old, and I am the

If art makes the invisible visible, photography immortalises it. Vila Autodromo, marks of life. J V Santos The Santos Rocha family “It’s 20 years since I met Evanilde. I don’t remember the day, the hour or the exact moment. I know that I said to a friend of ours: I like that blonde over there,