CONRAD LOUIS CHARLES

Brazil

The name Brazil is derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word Brasil, the name of an East Indian tree with reddish-brown wood from which a red-dye was extracted for various uses.

The culture of Brazil is very diverse in nature whose population was formed by multiple immigration sources from many countries, where each brought its own cultural traditions.

A boy climbing out of the Tapajos River after diving.Amazon, Brazil
  
Two boys playing around in the Tapajos River.Amazon, Brazil
  
Two girls playing around while I was trying to take some photos of them.Tapajos RiverAmazon, Brazil
     
  
A young girl holding her baby brother.Juaziero do Norte,Brazil
  
A boy sitting by the bank of the Tapajos River in the Amazon.Boim, Brazil
  
A boy watching his friends playing soccer.Boim, Brazil
     
  
A girl outside of her home in the Amazon after being examined by a doctor.Aveiro, Brazil
  
After finishing up photographing a family inside their home in the town of Boim, a curious boy who had been watching was sitting at the doorway. Amazon, Brazil
  
A girl cleaning outside her home inAviero along the Tapajos River.Amazon, Brazil
     
  
A boy walking back to his mother who was washing clothes along the banks of the São Francisco river in town of Bom Jesus da Lapa.Bahia, Brazil
  
Ouro Preto, Brazil
  
Kids playing on a statue in Ibirapuera prk.São Paulo, Brazil
     
  
A boy diving into the Tapajos River in the Amazon.Aveiro, Brazil
  
I was packing away my cameras after shooting on the lower deck of a river boat when a passenger on the upper deck sat down to watch the final rays of light after a sunset. Somewhere along the Tapajos River.
  
Amazon river at dusk.Santarem, Brazil
     
  
A young child walking along the banks of an open sewer in the outskirts of São Paulo near Favela Monte Azul.São Paulo, Brazil
  
Itaituba PortAmazon, Brazil
  
Seu Miguel who passed away a few years ago lived in the town of Fordlandia, where Henry Ford's Motor Company from 1928 to 1946 established a settlement and plantation to produce rubber in the Amazon. But problems with labor, disease, and the humidity ultimately forced the closing of the plantation. Seu Miguel had many stories to tell about his years living in Fordlandia.Fordlandia, Brazil
     
  
A young girl in front of her home in the Amazon.Boim, Brazil
  
A boy watching other kids playing in the Amazon.Boim, Brazil
  
A boy eating breakfast at a day care center in Favela Monte Azul.São Paulo, Brazil
     
  
Flavia Araracuara, Brazil
  
A couple hugging each other by a lake in Ibirapuera Park.São Paulo, Brazil
  
A girl at a daycare center.São Paulo, Brazil
     
  
While photographing kids playing soccer on a field, a young girl watched through a hole in a wall.Lençois, Brazil
  
A street boy sleeping inside a train station.São Paulo, Brazil
  
While shooting a story on street kids, a young boy tried to kick me as he was waking up from sleeping. Many of the kids sniff glue. São Paulo, Brazil
     
  
I was walking out of a metro station in São Paulo, when I saw two street children sleeping on the sidewalk outside the station. Shafts of light were shining through the walkway leading into the subway station. The first impression the shadows made were that of prison bars. Street children in the urban areas of Brazil's major cities live on the margins of their society. Metro Station Estação da LuzSão Paulo, Brazil
  
A boy sleeping on a sideway in front of a metro station in downtown São Paulo.
  
A dog sleeping outside a cemetery in Bahia.Lençois, Brazil
     
  
A young girl stopped to watch me as I was taking photographs of the old architecture in São Luis, Brazil
  
While hiking in a region outside of Juaziero do Norte, a young girl was resting with her donkey by the side of the trail. Ceara, Brazil
  
A young girl in front of her home in the town of Aviero along the Tapajos river in the Amazon. While taking her portrait, a fly had landed on her wrist. She asked me to take her photo with her fly.
     
  
Aviero, Brazil
  
A boy waiting for a doctor to examine him in the town of Boim.Amazon, Brazil
  
Easter SundayOuro Preto, Brazil
     
  
A woman asking for money outside of a church in Pelourinho.Salvador, Brazil
  
A girl standing at the entrance of her home in the town of Boim along the Tapajos river in the Amazon.
  
A man sitting by the doorway of an old warehouse in the town of Lençois in the mountainous region of Chapada Diamantina.Bahia, Brazil
     
  
A woman sitting at the entrance to a train station.São Paulo, Brazil
  
Sunset by the fishing docks of Santerem.Amazon, Brazil
  
During the low rainy season in the Amazon, beautiful sandy beaches are exposed when river levels drop. Alter de Chão, Brazil
     
  
A boy climbing a coconut tree.Jericoacoara, Brazil
  
While taking a break from shooting in the Brazilian port city of Santarem in the Amazon, I was walking around looking to buy some fruit. A young vendor was peering at me through the netting of his sacks of hanging passion fruit.
  
A boy on a hammock.São Luis, Brazil
     
  
A fisherman on the São Francisco River after sunset.Bom Jesus da Lapa, Brazil
  
A cloud over the horizon.Lençois Maranhense National Park
  
A teenage girl outside her home in a favela (shanytown) in São Paulo.
     
  
A man carrying a ladder back to his house.Olinda, Brazil
  
A fisherman repairing his boat.Lençois Maranhense, Brazil
  
A fisherrman walking away from his boat during low tide. Lençois Maranheuse, Brazil
     
  
Sunset along the Tapajos River.Amazon, Brazil
  
Fisherman carrying his catch of the morning in the Amazon.Santarem, Brazil
  
A woman crossing a bridge during sunset in Barra da Lagoa. Santa Catarina, Brazil