PHOTOGRAPHY: Comercial Portfolio: Pacification

A group of teenagers train lifting weights while an old woman stares them in the Shantytown of Rocinha, the biggest favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 18, 2012.While many believe that UPPs have helped quell violence by opening the doors of the favelas to public services such as legal electricity supply, garbage collection, education, public works and social assistance program, others see the pacification program as a temporary cover-up to security problems in Rio de Janeiro.
Pacification

A group of teenagers train lifting weights while an old woman stares them in the Shantytown of Rocinha, the biggest favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 18, 2012.

While many believe that UPPs have helped quell violence by opening the doors of the favelas to public services such as legal electricity supply, garbage collection, education, public works and social assistance program, others see the pacification program as a temporary cover-up to security problems in Rio de Janeiro.