Washington Post Magazine cover, July 2020.
The landscape of Vila Autodromo a favela that was home to 565 families, which now only about 20 families remain, after the 2016 summer olympic game construction forcebly removed them, leaving the community with very little life.
(from Left to Right) Nathalia Silva, 33 with her parents Luiz Claudio Silva, 57 and Maria da Penha Macena, 54. The family has been an activist against the removal of residents from Vila Autodromo favela for years. Here they are photographed in the house that was given to them in Vila Audromo, while most of the other residents where forced out for the construction of the 2016 summer Olympic games park near the favela.
Carmelia Marques 43 with her husband Mussolino Araujo de Lima 51, former residents of Villa Autodromo favela in their new home in Parque Carioca, a housing complex in the western part of Rio which is mostly controlled by paramilitary forces.
The Olympic park, built in western Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 summer olympics, is now mostly abandoned and has only been used for a few major public events.
Delmo Oliveira, 55 outside his house, the last original construction of Vila Autodromo a favela that was mostly destroyed and its residents relocated to different locations in Rio de Janeiro for the construction of the nearby olympic park.
Geraldo Bezerra da Silva, 59 is a restaurant owner who lives and works inside Asa Branca favela after being forced out of Vila Autodromo in 2014 where he lived for 28 years.
The streets of Asa Branca favela in Jacarepagua in west Rio de Janeiro. This favela which neighbors Vila Autodromo is a lively community for about 2000 families to which some residents of Vila Autodromo have relocated after being forced out before the 2016 summer olympic games.
Orlando, a resident of the Asa Branca favela in Jacarepagua in west Rio de Janeiro. This favela which neighbors Vila Autodromo is a lively community for about 2000 families to which some residents of Vila Autodromo have relocated after being forced out before the 2016 summer olympic games.
Jarsilia dos Santos, 51 with her youngest daughter Ashla dos Santos 6, on the side of their "home" basement where some neighbors let her stay with her two children in the Asa Branca favela.
Mrs dos Santos, lived for 10 years in Vila Autodromo until she was forced out. Now unemployed, she survives with her children with 171 Reais/34USD a month given to her by the state.
The streets of Asa Branca favela in Jacarepagua in west Rio de Janeiro. This favela which neighbors Vila Autodromo is a lively community for about 2000 families to which some residents of Vila Autodromo have relocated after being forced out before the 2016 summer olympic games.
Maria da Penha Macena, 54, is an activist and one of the few people who resisted to be evicted from her home in Vila Autodromo, photographed in her community that sides the Jacarepagua lagoon.
Penha, is part of the 20 families that managed to stay in Vila Autodromo while about 545 families were forced out for the construction of the 2016 summer Olympic games park near the Vila Autodromo favela.
Conceicao Queiroz Silva 47 is a nanny who lived in Vila Autodromo for 25 years, she now lives alone in Parque Carioca, after having gone trough a divorce due to the stess caused by the removal from her previous community.
The last original construction of Vila Autodromo a favela that was home to 565 families and mostly destroyed and its residents relocated to different locations in Rio de Janeiro for the construction of the nearby olympic park.
Lucineide Nicassio da Silva, 44 with her husband Fred in their home in Colonia, a community in western Rio de Janeiro where they built several houses after receiving compensation from the city of Rio de Janeiro to move out of their previous home in Vila Autodromo favela.
The landscape from Parque Carioca. A public housing complex where most residents from Vila Autodromo were relocated which is now mostly controled by paramilitary forces in Rio de Janeiro.
Heloisa Helena Costa Berto, also known as Luizinha de Nana (her candomblé religion name), 59 is a former resident of Vila Autodromo and a Afro-Brazilian candomble religion priest (or mãe de santo) now living in Pedra de Guaratiba the extreme west side of Rio de Janeiro, after being evicted from her home in Vila Autodromo.
The Olympic park, built in western Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 summer olympics, is now mostly abandoned and has only been used for a few major public events.
