CONRAD LOUIS CHARLES

Portfolios: Portraits

Bumba-meu-boi DancerSao Luis, BrazilThe Bumba-meu-boi festvial takes place throughout the month of June in Sao Luis. This distinctive dance blends a mixture of African, Portuguese, and Indian influences. On the Day of Saint John the Baptist on June 24th, many spectacular dances take place throughout the city.
  
While shooting a carnival parade in Santo Domingo, I saw this young girl walking with a beautifully colored costume. She was carrying an umbrella decorated with red ribbons. I got underneath the umbrella to photograph her just as the sun broke through some rain clouds.Dominican Republic
   
I was taking a portrait of the boy in the foreground when at the last minute his friend jumped into the photo. They had just finished dancing in a carnival parade.Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
     
  
Boys covered in oil and paint for carnival.They were dancing around in the streets to merengue music.Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
   
A boy covered with oil and red paint sitting down and resting after dancing during a carnival parade.Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  
A young man in a Bumba-Meu-Boi costume during a June festival.São Luis, Maranhão
     
  
A Haitian man dressed in a Rara carnival costume.Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
   
A man dressed in a costume and made up with glitter and brightly colored make-up for carnival.Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
   
A man dressed up for carnival with makeup.Port-au-Prince, Haiti
     
  
A Dominican boy wearing a carnival costume.Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
   
At Jericoacoara beach many gather along the shore to watch the sunset. While taking some photographs of the sun setting over the horizon, a young girl sat next to me during the final rays of light.Jericoacoara, Brazil
   
A young girl stopped to watch me as I was taking photographs of the old architecture in São Luis, Brazil
     
  
I made a portrait of this girl after she had been examiined by a physician. During a medical expedition to the Amazon with Brazilian doctors, we visited many towns along the Tapajos river in the state of Para.Aviero, Brazil
   
Aviero, Brazil
   
A boy who just came out of the ocean.Boca Chica, Dominican Republic
     
  
   
A young girl sitting along a trail.Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil
   
A girl looking out at her friend after a mass service.Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
     
  
A vendor selling cheese at a roadside bus stop.La Vega, Dominican Republic
   
A woman waiting for a bus.Santo Domingo, Doominican Republic
   
A boy having fun at carnivalSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic
     
  
Haitian boy inside of a church.Cap-Haitian, Haiti
   
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
   
Villa MellaSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic
     
  
A woman smoking her pipe. She was packing up her belongings at the end of a religious pilgrimage.Higuey, Dominican Republic
   
While looking through my viewfinder to take a photograph of mangoes, a young boy walked into my frame and rested his head on the table just as I was about to press the shutter release. Mercado ModeloSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic
   
Newspaper vendorRio de Janeiro, Brazil
     
  
An elder woman in front of her home.Kamagasaki, Japan
   
Easter SundayOuro Preto, Brazil
   
A Dominican soldier sitting by a window guarding a national shrine in the colonial zone of the capital.Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
     
  
A young woman covered in a mixture of motor oil and black paint. Many kids cover their bodies with oil for carnival and parade in the streets, occasionally rubbing up against people to get them dirty.Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
   
A boy playing around saluting me while taking his photograph. He was covered with motor oil and his face painted with a white make-up.Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  
     
  
Flavia Araracuara, Brazil
   
In many towns on Easter Sunday children wear white dresses with angel wings for their first communion.Ouro Preto, Minas GeraisBrazil
   
Madge
     
  
A boy standing in front of a church.Boim, Brazil
   
A young girl who just came out of the Tapajos river with her bucket.Amazon, Brazil
   
A girl at a daycare center.São Paulo, 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
   
BarryOpera Singer
     
  
HilaryAuthor
   
Jazz MusicianSao Paulo, Brazil
   
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
     
  
While on a train a woman next to me tapped me on the wrist and posed for me.Tokyo, Japan
   
Brooklyn, New York
   
Twin sisters at a foster home.Jukitiba, Brazil
     
  
A young girl holding her baby brother.Juaziero do Norte,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 fisherman gave me a ride to the other side of the Tapaojos River near the town of Aviero. His daughter was sitting in front of the boat.Amazon, Brazil
     
  
A boy waiting for a doctor to examine him in the town of Boim.Amazon, Brazil
   
A Haitian boy looking at a pre-lental procession taking place inside of a batey.Bateyes are camps where Haitian sugarcane laborers work and live in very poor and difficult conditions.La Ceja, Dominican Republic