Photographs of Guinnea-Bissau

Photos (16)

“Yellow and blue”, Bissau, Guinea Bissau. Two friends wait for public transportation. In Bissau, buses are yellow and blue.
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“Victoria”,  Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau. Woman stands in the shade of a mango tree.
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“Fairy”, Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau. A boy peels a coconut with his hand on the machete. Children have an active role in household tasks. They learn what to do and how to do it.
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“Canoe in the Mangal”, Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau. About 26,000 people live in relative harmony with the ecosystem in this natural park. They're an indispensable parte of this organism's life cycle, and vice-versa. It's important to acknowledge this. The industrialized world has been unbalancing the natural world, discriminating the ancestral relationship that we have/are with the cosm
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“Mato Grande”, Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau. The “mato”- “bush” - is what I would call a section of the forest. It's the name for the organization of the various sections of forest between the different communities that live in them. “Grande” means big, but also ancient.
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“Red path”, Cantanhez National Park, Guinea BissauSeeing an exit from the wilderness on a morning walk.
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“Golden cakes” Bombadinca, Guinea Bissau. A woman sells cakes, an oasis for a sweet-tooth.
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“Pis Serra”, Bissau, Guinea Bissau. At the Bissau carnival, the masks are handmade with great craftsmanship. This one portrays a sawfish.
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“Madness”, Bissau, Guinea Bissau. This photograph's slide is blown up. It was me, I was standing in front of the parade, amidst the madness. The film was at its end, but I wanted to take one more picture, and with the energy confronting me I used too much strength to roll it forward, damaging it.
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“Pelican” Island in the Bijagós archipelago, Guinea Bissau. In this island I was enraptured by the beauty of our planet Earth.
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“City”, Bissau, Guinea Bissau. The city of Bissau is culturally rich. Besides its modern life, it still has an old quarter remaining from its foundation by the portuguese in the 17th century. The fortress of São João da Amura is an example of this heritage.
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“Flowers”, Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau. A little girl with her grandmother, who prepares a meal made with flowers.
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“The Guinean thinker”,Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau. This man is a “homem grande” - a “big man”.
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“Runaway chimpanzee”, Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau. I heard them from afar.
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“Hand on shoulder”, Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau. A coal sale inside the perimeter of the Cantanhez National Park. People take the coal away in large quantities. To their houses and to their friend's. Meanwhile, the forest is over-exploited, then substituted for cashew plantations, until, finally, disconsolation sets in.
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“Woman in her place”, Bissau, Guinea Bissau. At the carnival in Bissau city, a woman is taken to the parade on a horse supported by men. She has oil and rice stuck on her body.
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