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Carnival 2020 - Beija Flor de Nilópolis

Parade

Old school

Last rehearsal at the Beija-Flor court

February 2nd is the day to greet the queen of the sea from Salvador da Bahia... it's fisherman's day...

Feast of Yemanja 2019  - pictures of Kithi

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Some scenes are stories narrated by the mixed people  the crowd.

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From a distance I admired her with my lens and she didn't see it, when she saw it she broke out into a smile and covered her face in shame! A joy this moment. Without knowing each other we completed an intense conversation! 

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Their way of greeting Yemanjá was another, the joke. In the midst of the people, the ball guides the photograph.

In a fraction of a second the ball takes another direction and the race for the ball brings those who used to play alone together.

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The children of the sea are covered in blue.

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All well taken care of to gift the queen of Yemanjá.  Flowers without thorns, plastic removed and kept, prayer and lavender to perfume the sea.

THE c a r n a v a l 2 0 18  arrived and joy took over Pelourinho... Working for Read More 

And Bira Reis, the one who combined blow and percussion and transformed Bahia's carnival; the one that made the streets of Pelô the home of its rhythms so tangled up with "people" from all over the world; the one I was always sure of the joy of the encounter when stepping on Pelô;  moved to another plane, but  from here I hear him making sound in the other dimension. 2018 was the last carnival in Bira Reis  and I was there! Below is a memory of that eternal moment.

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