The Luxury of social isolation
Surrounded by modern buildings located at one of the richest neighborhoods in the Brazilian Economic Capital, São Paulo, Paraisópolis is the second biggest favela in Brazil and one of the most vulnerable areas in the country to the Covid-19’s impacts.
Not only for the high overpopulation rate, with over 150.000 residents living in a reduce area with limited access to pipe water and a sewer system, this community is also affected by a severe economic situation that forces many to abandon the social-isolation policies recommended by the World Health Organization to work.
Along two weeks, I documented the residents, the local daily life during the Covid-19’s epidemic in a place where the social isolation could be considered a luxury.
My special thanks to The National Geographic Society for granting this project.