Daniel Rodrigues © Football in Brazil
Daniel Rodrigues © Awa Guadja
Daniel Rodrigues © The iron train
Photographe Portugais né en 1987 et installé
depuis 10 ans près de Porto, Dominique Rodrigues travaille pour la presse
internationale. Ses grandes séries photographiques saisies aux quatre coins du
monde (du Brésil à la forêt amazonienne, en passant par la Mauritanie ou
Istanbul) se composent d'images à la fois douces, belles et sans
fard, résolument ancrées dans leur réalité.
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Football in Brazil
Controversies and protests against the
excesses spent for holding the World Cup in 2014 did not shake the faith of the
Brazilian in soccer equality between classes. When there is a ball, there is no
age, gender, social status or land that crashes whatever has born at those
legs. The obvious inequalities between rich and poor fade with an emotional cry
of goal. Even away from the stage and the spotlight, here the score grows with
the purity of the game that we can see daily in fields of mud, slums, dilapidated
buildings, on the beach overlooking by the Christ the Redeemer. It is the faith
in the division of cleats, in the mended balls that continues to fill world's
imaginary with the visceral relationship between the Brazilian and soccer. In
the name of the father, the son and the spirit of football. Amen.
Awa Guaja
The Awa indigenous tribe lives in the Amazon
Rainforest in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, divided into four villages: Awa,
Tiracambú, Juriti and Guajá. A total of 400 people living as close as possible
to the purity of its origins. The hunting days are long, but do not spare
anyone: today, children and women also head the expedition through the dense
forest. Here there is no certain age (the last of these families was discovered
less than ten years ago), only the day-to-day survival.
The help of the institutions responsible for
its preservation leads to the community a few words in Portuguese, urban
clothing and rare utensils for easy daily life. But the goal is to be an arm
more in the fight against the increasing encroachment of loggers in search of
the most precious of the Amazon forest, the trees that give it the surname: The
Lung of the Earth.
The Iron Train
The Iron Train is one of the longest train in
the world, the train is about 2.5 km. A journey that goes from Nouadhibouh to
Zouerate (Mauritania), totaling 652 km in the middle of the Sahara desert that
lasts about 20 hours. An epic journey where residents, poor and penniless use
dangerous train to visit relatives in the homeland or carrying goods such as
live animals. High temperatures during the day and very low temperatures during
the night makes the journey is not easy. But the worst is the dust that is
produced by wagons full of iron minerals that come from a mine 30km Zouarate to
be unloaded cargo boats in the port of Nouadhibouh.
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