This series employs Rio de Janeiro’s classic symbols—Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf Mountain, Copacabana’s shoreline—to challenge the city’s idealized image, long marketed globally as a coveted landscape. The images confront this fantasy with the reality of territories scarred by historical inequalities, particularly in the South Zone where hillside favelas and paved streets share the same space yet remain worlds apart in daily life.

The photographs deploy a visual language evoking suspended time—almost outside the present. This choice transcends aesthetics: it conjures the permanence of social structures, the sluggishness of change, the repetition of voids. A time that doesn’t move, like the absent public policies most urgently needed where they’re least present.

Postcard proposes a deeper gaze at what hides beneath the landscape’s surface and at urban territories’ complexities—marked by overlaps, silences, and endurance.

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