Photo/Foto: Alexei Taylor
Complexo do Alemão
The Complexo do Alemão series was created long before the recent State actions attempting to pacify some Rio de Janeiro areas outside government control. The flag and passport, beyond cartographic drawings of the slums, are ways of understanding that there is a parallel micro-nation that includes autonomous territories inside one of the largest Brazilian cities; as if the favelas were areas subtracted from the brazilian state.