A selection of photographs taken in Brazil in 2014.
Part 24:
Caxias do Sul (RS) – Public staircase
Porto Alegre (RJ) – Airplane cockpit
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Capybaras
Caxias do Sul (RS) – Public staircase
Porto Alegre (RS) – Airplane cockpit
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Capybaras
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2014, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
264: Confins Airport
When I first arrived in Belo Horizonte, it was common to land at the city airport of Pampulha. This airport, near the Mineirão stadium and the Federal University, has its limitations. For more than ten years almost all scheduled services were transferred to a more distant airport: Confins. Over thirty years ago the airport was – officially Aeroporto Internacional Tancredo Neves – coming into operation. But this airport grew only recently. Confins now has a capacity of 22 million passengers per year. When I left for the Netherlands in 2010, I had to wait a while for my flight. I took this opportunity to walk around and take a picture of the new terminal, still empty.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2010, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
026. Santa Mala
JULY 2005: Santa Mala
On a sunny Sunday, I was witnessing the landing of a small airplane at Pampulha Airport, near the center of Belo Horizonte. A landing, like many small airplanes do, as it appeared to me. However… this airplane was headline news the following day. The plane had transported pastors of a Brazilian religious movement. They carried some suitcases. Quite innocent, to have personal luggage in your suitcases…. However, when they were forced to open them, these cases contained a large sum of money. Not from their bank accounts, but money collected from their poor parishioners. These poor people pay about ten percent of their low income to the church. This money was destined for the construction of huge and luxurious religious buildings, and destined to the pockets of the ‘pastors’…
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2005, 2014
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