PHOTOGRAPHY: Comercial Portfolio: Pacification

A group of teenegers jump from a water pipe in a sewage that separates the beaches of Ipanema and Leblon, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 03, 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 teenegers jump from a water pipe in a sewage that separates the beaches of Ipanema and Leblon, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 03, 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.