Favela – The Mirror of Societies
Below you can see a slide show of the exhibition
This exhibition was born out of a rather spontaneous decision at the Hub café that Nana was running during the fall 2021, where she met Bronislav and Suzana. Both Suzana and Bronislav have been working for NGO’s that aim at improving the social and educational prospects of the the people growing up in the Favelas in Rio in Brazil. They wanted to display Bronislav’s photos which Nana found was a good idea. The exhibition was on display outdoors on Luostarin Välikatu 1.11-5.12.2021.
This exhibition is presented as part of the Boundary Transgressing Dialogue Culture at Hub Turku Ry, and driven by the passion of the photographer Bronislav Dolgopyat who lived in Rio de Janeiro favelas Cantagalo and Matriz for 5 years. Living among slum dwellers he experienced first-hand unequal socioeconomic conditions these disenfranchised citizens live under. Favela residents became his companions and mentors, some of whom remain his close friends to this day. In his quest for truth Bronislav made decision to bring to light what is seldom seen by the rest of the world, that these ordinary favela people are striving to lead decent lives despite being trapped in precarious living conditions.
Listen to the Wednesday breakfast seminar at the Hub with Leonardo da Costa Custodio who is engaged in both research, media work and activism in the Favelas.
Leonardo Custodio is a postdoctoral researcher at the Minority Profile at ÅA, where he teaches his course “Communication, media activism and social change”. He also coordinates, with Monica Gathuo, the Anti-Racism media activist alliance (www.armaalliance.com), I’m editor of the website of the anti-racism research network in Finland (www.raster.fi) and coordinator of the activist research network (https://mailman.abo.fi/mailman/listinfo/activist-research-network).
Hub Turku Ry had the honour to receive him as guest the 10th of November to be interviewed by Nana Blomqvist
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