A bold and beautiful portrait of Brazil – The Washington Post

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A bold and beautiful portrait of Brazil

With the 2016 Olympics on the horizon in Rio de Janeiro, a look at Brazil’s vibrancy through a Washington Post photographer’s Instagram.

via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/04/22/a-bold-and-beautiful-portrait-of-brazil/

Ahead of the upcoming 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Washington Post staff photographer Bonnie Jo Mount traveled to Piquiá de Baixo to document a community of residents in clay-brick and wooden houses suffering from the heavy pollution from nearby pig iron factories and the noisy Carajás railway that runs through the Amazon region transporting ore.

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