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Showcase: Surreal Selves in Rio

Rogério Reis turned his back on the official Carnaval parade in Rio de Janeiro to explore the people of the backstreet “counter-Carnaval.”

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/showcase-123/

Rogério Reis decided in 1987 to turn his back on the sparkle of the officially sanctioned Carnaval parade of samba schools through the Sambodromo in Rio de Janeiro. Instead, he began to explore the rawness of the “counter-Carnaval” along Rio’s back streets.