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In the background scrolls are a number of illustrations of the Okutani family dynasty dating back to the first of their "priest" lineage. Shinto for Japanese society, represents a place and a time to purify and reconnect with life's vital forces, Kiso Mura, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/013_Overview_NewWebsite_2018_093.jpg013_Overview_NewWebsite_2018_093Masatsugu Okutani, 41 performs a waterfall purification ceremony at Kiyo-Taki waterfall. Purification is one of the most important aspects of Shinto as well as being at the core of Japanese culture, Nagano, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/014Overview_NewWebsite_2018_096.jpg014Overview_NewWebsite_2018_096Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 together with father Kazufumi, 71 conduct the Summer Festival starting in Yabuhara sanctuary and weaving itself through Kiso Mura village. Seen here the moment of the ceremony called "Houbei-no-gi", Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/015Overview_NewWebsite_2018_094.jpg015Overview_NewWebsite_2018_094Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 dresses into his ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony to be held at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, with father Kazufumi, 71. The essence of the ceremony is to remove all impurities of thought from body and mind, Kiso Mura, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/016Overview_NewWebsite_2018_123.jpg016Overview_NewWebsite_2018_123The Sarutahiko-no-kami. the role of these Kami - Divinities - are to guide the Mikoshi during the Summer Festival parade through the village of Kiso Mura. These Kami represent western people with big noses, eyes, red and white faces, and blond hair, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/017Overview_NewWebsite_2018_095.jpg017Overview_NewWebsite_2018_095Four Shinto priests, headed by Kazufumi Okutani, 71 and his son Masatsugu, 41 leave their family home and walk to the heart of the Yabuhara Sanctuary in Kiso Mura village to conduct the Grand Summer Purification ceremony, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/018Overview_NewWebsite_2018_092.jpg018Overview_NewWebsite_2018_092Buddhist monk Kohan Kamata, 56 and Masatsugo Okutani, 41 bid each other farewell on the steps separating the Buddist Temple "Hojozan Gokurakuji" from Yabuhara sanctuary in Kiso Mura village, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/019Overview_NewWebsite_2018_098.jpg019Overview_NewWebsite_2018_098Members of the Yabuhara Sanctuary association stand in silence holding lanterns as the Mikoshi weaves its way through the village of Kiso Muta as part of the Summer festival celebrations. The Mikoshi is literally a wheel-less human transporter of "Kami" - divinities, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20250930_China_Beijing_0110-61.jpg20250930_China_Beijing_0110-61Pedestrians and shoppers walk through a large open air shopping mall in the up market, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20250930_China_Beijing_0110-115.jpg20250930_China_Beijing_0110-115Pedestrians and shoppers walk through a large open air shopping district in the up market, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20250924_China_Beijing_0106-14.jpg20250924_China_Beijing_0106-14A family walk past an installation of Chinese lanterns illuminating the night in the upmarket neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20250930_China_Beijing_0110-160.jpg20250930_China_Beijing_0110-160Shoppers walk through a large open air shopping mall in the up market, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20250927_China_Beijing_0108-51.jpg20250927_China_Beijing_0108-51Young and affluent shoppers walk and exchange phone numbers in a large open air shopping mall in the up market, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20250724_France_Alps_0097-44.jpg20250724_France_Alps_0097-44A pastoral scene close to the Alpine town of Samöens, France. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20250626_Bologna_Italy_0096-58.jpg20250626_Bologna_Italy_0096-58A mother and daughter walk along a pavement with two shadows created across a bright orange wall, simulating by chance Egyptian pyramids in the centuries old historic Bologna city centre. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20160215_alQurna_egypt_100y.jpg20160215_alQurna_egypt_100yTourists fly over western Thebes in hot air balloons getting an aerial view of several important sites of ancient egyptian archeology amongst them: The Colossi of Memnon and the Amenhotep III Temple as well as the Temple to Ramses II in Thebes and the Nile river and its valley. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20251019_Spain_Sevilla_0155.jpg20251019_Spain_Sevilla_0155A woman walks through the front gate of the Royal Artillery factory in Seville, Spain. It was built in the 18th Century and was the largest Arms factory in the country. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Christopher-Pillitz-Tennessee.jpgChristopher-Pillitz-TennesseeEarly morning sunrise as seen through the front door of a wood cabin with a rocking chair in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, USA. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20251227_Morocco_Marrakesh_048.jpg20251227_Morocco_Marrakesh_048Local residents go about their daily activities through the narrow alleyways within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_158.jpg20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_158Local residents go about their daily activities late into the evening through the narrow rain swept alleyways within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0027.jpg20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0027Traditional men and women walk along in the early morning light along the outer walls of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, which is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0297a.jpg20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0297aMohammed, a live chicken seller inside the Souk, plies his mobile trade in the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0119a.jpg20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0119aOn a silent street scene a muslim man wearing a traditional Djellaba walks down stairs through the narrow alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20251226_Morocco_Marrakesh_190.jpg20251226_Morocco_Marrakesh_190Local residents go about their daily activities through the narrow alley ways within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0374.jpg20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0374An elderly Djellaba wearing man walks through the narrow alleyways as he heads home within the walls of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, which is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0305.jpg20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0305Muslim woman wearing traditional Hijab and clothing walks passed a traditional Moor door through the alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0387.jpg20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0387An elderly Djellaba wearing man arrives at his home through the narrow alleyways within the walls of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, which is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20250612_NYC_steam_0032.jpg20250612_NYC_steam_0032New York city pedestrians walk along a city sidewalk engulfed by steam that is being pumped out of the city's heating and cooling vents, an iconic aspect of city living. The rising steam is primarily due to NYC's heating and cooling system that serves many buildings in Manhattan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/003_20200217_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_014.jpgDancing in the rain.Dancer Pablo Fermani jumps into a large puddle of water during a tropical downpour in front of Bar Sur, a famous Tango bar in the San Telmo neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/005_20200307_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_0013-Edit.jpgTango dancers prepare for a rehearsal.Tango dancers Jesus Paez, 34 and Iara Duarte, 22 preparing for a dance performance at La Catedral del Tango, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/002a_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_422.jpgThe last danceTango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 dancing in the courtyard of the Ezeiza family estate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/001_20200302_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_223.jpgThe last danceTango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 dancing in the courtyard of the Ezeiza family estate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/004_20200222_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_130.jpgTango dancers during a live performance in bar.Tango dancers Angi Ordoñez and Nicolás Sambucetti in a live performance at Bar Sur in the San Telmo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/006a_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_827.jpgThe last danceTango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 rehearse a dance routine at La Catedral del Tango social club, before a live show later that night, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/023Overview_NewWebsite_2018_110.jpg023Overview_NewWebsite_2018_110Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. Not for the faint hearted, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/023aOverview_NewWebsite.jpg023aOverview_NewWebsite https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/024Overview_NewWebsite_2018_111.jpg024Overview_NewWebsite_2018_111Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. Not for the faint hearted, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/025Overview_NewWebsite_2018_112.jpg025Overview_NewWebsite_2018_112Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. Not for the faint hearted, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20140625_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_5985.1.jpg20140625_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_5985.1 https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/41https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20140625_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_5867.1.jpg20140625_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_5867.1 https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/42https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/010Overview_NewWebsite_2018_1123.jpg010Overview_NewWebsite_2018_1123Couples dance Tango and Milongas on Avenida de Mayo, as part of the "National day of culture", Buenos Aires city, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/43https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10021783.jpgCPA-10021783Ricardo and Nicole, Tango dancers with Lisandro Adrover, master accordion player rehearse at Café Homero, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/44https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/overview_Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_017.jpgoverview_Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_017Young children have fun looking out of a window at Huitag rural community school, during a Papageno music programme rehearsal, Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/45https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/009Overview_NewWebsite_2018_122.jpg009Overview_NewWebsite_2018_122Unexpectedly a yourng woman dancer removes her coat and begins going through her dance routine in front of a bare tree's winter shadow in downtown Asheville, NC. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/46https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20080429_cuba_dv_0106-Edit.jpg20080429_cuba_dv_0106-EditMaylin Daza at home grooming her nails with the help of her sister Yeneise in their home, Havana, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/47https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/001Overview_NewWebsite_2018_114.jpg001Overview_NewWebsite_2018_114Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez city and Mawli Dayak, son of the legendary Tuareg rebellion leader survey the strategically important Aïr mountain landscape with a Niger army unit providing security on their journey across the Sahara, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/48https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/003Overview_NewWebsite_2018_116.jpg003Overview_NewWebsite_2018_116Freelance gold mining prospectors eek out a living panning for gold on the sands of the Sahara desert under blistering conditions in the Tabelot region of the Aïr mountains, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/49https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/002Overview_NewWebsite_2018_115.jpg002Overview_NewWebsite_2018_115A Niger army unit travels in convoy with the mayor of Agadez city, Rhissa Feltou and his entourage into the Aïr mountains from the Tidene region of central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/50https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/004Overview_NewWebsite_2018_117.jpg004Overview_NewWebsite_2018_117The Sultan of the Aïr region, which includes the city of Agadez, surrounded by his entourage. The Sultanate of Agadez, was a Berber kingdom founded in 1449 by the Tuareg, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/51https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/005Overview_NewWebsite_2018_118.jpg005Overview_NewWebsite_2018_118A Niger army unit travels in convoy with the mayor of Agadez city, Rhissa Feltou and his entourage out of the Aïr mountain region of central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/52https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/006Overview_NewWebsite_2018_119.jpg006Overview_NewWebsite_2018_119Liman Feltou, 62 camel herder and truck driver together with his friends and neighbours in Ténéré region, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/53https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/008Overview_NewWebsite_2018_121.jpg008Overview_NewWebsite_2018_121The weathered feet of an old Tuareg camel herdsman in the Ténéré region, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/54https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/007Overview_NewWebsite_2018_120.jpg007Overview_NewWebsite_2018_120Tuareg camel herdsmen preparing to mount camels to head to water well in the Sahara desert in the Ténéré region, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/55https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/020Overview_NewWebsite_2018_107.jpg020Overview_NewWebsite_2018_107The village of old Al Qurna clings to the slopes of the Theban hills filled with endless quantities of Pharaonic tombs. For centuries its inhabitants had unhindered access to these burial grounds. In 2007 the Egyptian Govt. order most of its destruction. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/56https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/021Overview_NewWebsite_2018_108.jpg021Overview_NewWebsite_2018_108Egyptian tomb robbers at work in middle kingdom burial sites in search of ancient Pharaonic treasures. They work in claustrophobic environments where fatal accidents and serious pulmonary ailments are ever present. If caught, robbers will get 25 year jail terms. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/57https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/022Overview_NewWebsite_2018_109.jpg022Overview_NewWebsite_2018_109The Colossi of Memnon marks the eastern entrance of the Amenhotep III Temple in Thebes. Today, one of the most important reconstruction projects of its kind in Egypt. Despite strict security measures it provides many of the small objects that make their way to a buoyant tourist trade. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/58https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/027Overview_NewWebsite_2018_001.jpg027Overview_NewWebsite_2018_001Inside a traditional Beijing courtyard house, opera singer Chen Yun Jiang's original travelling trunks which would contain his costumes when performing across China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/59https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/028Overview_NewWebsite_2018_002.jpgTea picking in morning mistBao Ahua picks tea in the morning mist on the slopes outside her village of Zha Lu, Yunnan province, China https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/60https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/029Overview_NewWebsite_2018_003.jpgThe Cave Dwellers of Shaanxi ProvinceChang Han Lin has a mid morning break from work in Chang Qu village. He sits inside his Cave house, Shaanxi, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/61https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/030Overview_NewWebsite_2018_009.jpgTraditional round house/ dwelling, ChinaShengwu Round dwelling in the village of Jiaolu, Fujian Province. Interior circular courtyard and living spaces with central water well for residents, chickens and hens, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/62https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/031Overview_NewWebsite_2018_004.jpg031Overview_NewWebsite_2018_004Mu Ze Latso visits a village neighbour on Lugu Lake, Yunnan province. Mo Suo people belong to the NaXi minority. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly the do not have a marriage system, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/63https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/032Overview_NewWebsite_2018_008.jpgPhotographs and towels in traditional round house /dwelling interior, ChinaInterior of a Round House dwelling, Jialou village, Fujian Province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/64https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/033Overview_NewWebsite_2018_005.jpga young girl at a primary school lessonChen Xiao Sa, 8 years old studying in her primary school, Dong Da Jian village, Shaanxi Province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/65https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/034Overview_NewWebsite_2018_006.jpgTwo men play Chinese chessFishermen on Jin Shan Island play Chinese Chess, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/66https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/035Overview_NewWebsite_2018_007.jpg035Overview_NewWebsite_2018_007Zhang Lin, 23 leading Yue opera performer from the Xiao Bai Hua Shaoxing Opera Troupe putting on her make-up before a performance in a rural village close to Shaoxing City, Zhe Jiang province, China. She is one of the leading lights of Yue opera. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/67https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/036Overview_NewWebsite_2018_010.jpg036Overview_NewWebsite_2018_010Boy runs down a misty village path in Arunachal Pradesh, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/68https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/037Overview_NewWebsite_2018_011.jpgBus stop in the desert, Peru, 2000A remote and lonely bus stop across the Bayovar desert, Peru. A landscape filled with phosphate and minerals. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/69https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/038Overview_NewWebsite_2018_012.jpgTibetan buddihist monk walks through monastery Buddhist Monks walking from one temple to another in the early morning after a light dusting of snow, A Cuo Monastery, Xinghai, Qinghai Province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/70https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/039Overview_NewWebsite_2018_013.jpgCollecting Water, Rajasthan 1991Women from the Bishnoi caste colect water from well in Bhagatashi village, Rajasthan, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/71https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/040Overview_NewWebsite_2018_014.jpg040Overview_NewWebsite_2018_014A group of Dabbawalas, from a total of about 5000, travel across Mumbai delivering their cargo of freshly prepared food in tin boxes from their client families to other members of the same family working in all types of employment across city, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/72https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/041Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0151.jpg041Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0151A man has his pipe lit by another at the annual Sonepur animal fair, Bihar province, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/73https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/042Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0161.jpg042Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0161Victor, the Queen of the Himalayas steam train travels the daily route between Darjeeling and Siliguri towns on the Darjeeling Himalayan railway line, classed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/74https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/043Overview_NewWebsite_2018_017.jpg043Overview_NewWebsite_2018_017A village elder sits in his family's internal courtyard shortly after waking in their rural home in Chita Kalaan village, Punjab, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/75https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/044Overview_NewWebsite_2018_018.jpg044Overview_NewWebsite_2018_018A women does the house work, collecting water and dung, sweeping the backyard of her employer's home in Salawas village, Rajasthan, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/76https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/045Overview_NewWebsite_2018_019.jpgHorse training in New Delhi, 2008Presidential Bodyguard soldier in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This unit is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, Delhi, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/77https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/046Overview_NewWebsite_2018_020.jpgMusicians from UrubichaEliana Aguararupa 14, Cello player. When she plays she says "I see trees, I feel happy", Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/78https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/047Overview_NewWebsite_2018_021.jpgMusicians from UrubichaErberti Oreyai, 14. Plays Violin at home with his family watching on. He was a student at the music school for three years but was forced to quit because his family could not afford to buy the violin cords when they broke. They like everybody in the village are peasant, subsistence farmers, Urubicha, Bolivia https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/79https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/048Overview_NewWebsite_2018_022.jpg048Overview_NewWebsite_2018_022Villagers take refuge during a tropical downpour, Anamoros, El Salvador. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/80https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/049Overview_NewWebsite_2018_023.jpg049Overview_NewWebsite_2018_023Maylin Daza at home grooming her nails as her nephew looks on in their shared home, Havana, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/81https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/050Overview_NewWebsite_2018_024.jpg050Overview_NewWebsite_2018_024Young boys play snooker in a roadside bar, Peru. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/82https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/052Overview_NewWebsite_2018_026.jpg052Overview_NewWebsite_2018_026María Vergara, coffee grower, Peru. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/83https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/053Overview_NewWebsite_2018_027.jpg053Overview_NewWebsite_2018_027Farmer Rodrigo de Almeida, surrounded by religious iconography in his home, Diamantina, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/84https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/051Overview_NewWebsite_2018_025.jpg051Overview_NewWebsite_2018_025Paulinho de la Rosa has drink in Roque's bar and general store, Uruguay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/85https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/054Overview_NewWebsite_2018_028.jpg054Overview_NewWebsite_2018_028Marcio Gomes, sugar cane worker, harvesting the summer crop, Riberirao Preto, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/86https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/055Overview_NewWebsite_2018_029.jpg055Overview_NewWebsite_2018_029Joao Machado, sugar cane worker, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/87https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/056Overview_NewWebsite_2018_030.jpg056Overview_NewWebsite_2018_030Farm workers, Diamantina, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/88https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/057Overview_NewWebsite_2018_031.jpgThe spirit of Tango No4, Buenos AiresA woman looks through a bar window during a short summer downpour, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/89https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/058Overview_NewWebsite_2018_031a.jpg058Overview_NewWebsite_2018_031aA women sits inside a Alfa Romero Freccia d'Oro 1948 observing a man in La Boca district, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/90https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/059Overview_NewWebsite_2018_032.jpg059Overview_NewWebsite_2018_032A couple dance tango along side a classic Alfa Romeo Freccia d'Oro 1948 in La Boca district, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/91https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/073Overview_NewWebsite_2018_046.jpg073Overview_NewWebsite_2018_046A couple embrace on a car's bonnet during Rio de Janeiro's famed carnival, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/92https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/074Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0471.jpg074Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0471During carnival a girl dances to the sensual sound of "Samba Reggae" on a humid night in Salvador, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/93https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10067654.jpgCPA-10067654from Brazil Incarnate. Men meet, talk, and sunbath on ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/94https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10067631.1.jpgCPA-10067631.1Brazil Incarnate https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/95https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/075Overview_NewWebsite_2018_048.jpg075Overview_NewWebsite_2018_048Laura de Vison, a notorious transvestite teacher, nightclub performer dressing up in drag for her weekend night performance, O Bohemio club, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/96https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/076Overview_NewWebsite_2018_049.jpg076Overview_NewWebsite_2018_049Wearing a peroxide blond wig, Laura de Vison, Rio de Janeiro's most famous drag queen, also a primary school teacher and TV personality, celebrates carnival with fellow transvestite friends at the Gay ball, Leblon, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/97https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Argentina_jujuy_1983.jpgArgentina_jujuy_1983Argentina - In the village of Casabindo the local Aymara community gather to celebrate the annual ceremony to the "Pachamama", rituals to pay thanks and gratitude to "Mother Earth" for the harvest and sustenance that their lands provide, Jujuy 1983. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/98https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10052790a.jpgCPA-10052790aA week-long series of processions made by various "cofradías" (parish brotherhoods) passing through the city of Seville marks one of the world's most famous Easter Festivals. With pointed hats reminiscent of the Klu Klux Klan, these eerie-looking people march day and night, Spain 1988 https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/99https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/060Overview_NewWebsite_2018_033.jpg060Overview_NewWebsite_2018_033Thousands of Gold prospectors work the open mine of Serra Pelada with the dream of enriching themselves in the process, Para state, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/100https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/061Overview_NewWebsite_2018_034.jpg061Overview_NewWebsite_2018_034Thousands of Gold prospectors work the open mine of Serra Pelada with the dream of enriching themselves in the process, Para state, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/101https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/062Overview_NewWebsite_2018_035.jpg062Overview_NewWebsite_2018_035Sugar cane workers begin their working day in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/102https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/063Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0361.jpg063Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0361Tin miners from Siglo XX mine work in terrible conditions for a meagre $3 a day, Llallagua, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/103https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/064Overview_NewWebsite_2018_037a.jpg064Overview_NewWebsite_2018_037aSt Peter's Square as seen from the dome of St Peter's Basilica, Rome https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/104https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/065Overview_NewWebsite_2018_038.jpg065Overview_NewWebsite_2018_038Two chauffeurs greet one another in the Cortile di San Damaso, inside the Vatican's Apostolic palace, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/105https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/066Overview_NewWebsite_2018_039.jpg066Overview_NewWebsite_2018_039La Cava nightclub under mud flow, rocks and ash, Plymouth, Montserrat. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/106https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/067Overview_NewWebsite_2018_040.jpg067Overview_NewWebsite_2018_040A fluorescent cross marks the location where an avalanche killed 20 people in blizzard conditions, Flateyri, Iceland, 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/107https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/068Overview_NewWebsite_2018_041.jpg068Overview_NewWebsite_2018_041Isafjordur Icelandic fishing town under blizzard conditions,1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/108https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/069Overview_NewWebsite_2018_042.jpg069Overview_NewWebsite_2018_042Monks in a "Puga" in the Jokhang temple, Lhasa, Tibet. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/109https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/070Overview_NewWebsite_2018_043.jpg070Overview_NewWebsite_2018_043Monks take a tea break during their chanting inside the assembly hall at Sera Monastery, outside Lhasa, Tibet. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/110https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20250612_NYC_steam_0084.jpg20250612_NYC_steam_0084Families walk along a Manhattan city sidewalk engulfed by steam that is being pumped out of the city's heating and cooling vents, an iconic aspect of city living. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/111https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/071Overview_NewWebsite_2018_044.jpg071Overview_NewWebsite_2018_044Spanish fishermen working under Gale force 9 conditions between Great Sole bank and Eastner, North Sea. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/112https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/072Overview_NewWebsite_2018_045.jpg072Overview_NewWebsite_2018_045Spanish fishermen Paco Vidal and Valentin Capa light up cigarettes whilst attending to a new catch of fish, North Sea. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/113https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/077Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0991.jpg077Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0991A group of friends play a game of football on Copacabana beach with a sand sculpture of "cariocas" sunbathing whilst Christ the Redeemer keeps a watchful eye, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/114https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/078Overview_NewWebsite_2018_050.jpg078Overview_NewWebsite_2018_050A group of young men defy logic to brighten their day by playing a "kick about" on a Sao Paulo skyscraper, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/115https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/079Overview_NewWebsite_2018_102.jpg079Overview_NewWebsite_2018_102At a dinning table and below the Last Supper, surrounded by multiple trophies for their football successes, priests from the Santo Tomás de Villanova seminary take a break before heading to the pitch to play a game against fellow seminarians, Ourinhos, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/116https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/080Overview_NewWebsite_2018_103.jpg080Overview_NewWebsite_2018_103Robbed priests of Santo Tomás de Villanova seminary play a game of football against international student trainees. The seminarian football team have won in recent years many local trophies as they remain amongst the best team in the region, Ourinhos, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/117https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/081Overview_NewWebsite_2018_104.jpg081Overview_NewWebsite_2018_104Alexandre Helios Motta, 37 one of the most fanatical ardent of Corinthians FC fans. His body is covered in his team's tattoos. For him Corinthians FC is bigger more important then anything else in life. He forms part of one of the hard corp groups of fans known as "Gavioes da Fiel" or Hawks of the Faithful, Sao Paulo, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/118https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/082Overview_NewWebsite_2018_105.jpg082Overview_NewWebsite_2018_105Inside Marrey Prison close to Sao Paulo's international airport at Guarulhos, the high security penitenciary hold 2200 inmates, 1000 more then it can officially hold. The prisoners play a football tournament as part of their privileges for good discipline, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/119https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/083Overview_NewWebsite_2018_101.jpg083Overview_NewWebsite_2018_101A father and son play football on Niteroi beach at dusk with a view of the Guanabara bay, Christ the Reedemer and the Sugar Loaf mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/120https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/084Overview_NewWebsite_2018_051.jpg084Overview_NewWebsite_2018_051On Sunday's the state government of Sao Paulo orders the closure of the "Minocao" an elevated section of a major arterial road in the heart of the megacity that has a shortage of green spaces, thus allowing cycling, jogging even football to be played on its rough surface, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/121https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/085Overview_NewWebsite_2018_106.jpg085Overview_NewWebsite_2018_106At the final of the Confederations cup between Brazil and Spain (3-0) at the iconic and newly rebuilt Maracanã, a just married couple bless their union by going to the hallowed grounds of the world's most revered stadium for a photo session, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/122https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/086Overview_NewWebsite_2018_052.jpg086Overview_NewWebsite_2018_052Diego Maradona's childhood home in the impoverished neighbourhood of Fiorito, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/123https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/087Overview_NewWebsite_2018_053.jpg087Overview_NewWebsite_2018_053In the absence of green spaces in the megacity that is Sao Paulo, a boy kicks a ball to friends on the streets of Brazil's industrial heartland. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/124https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/088Overview_NewWebsite_2018_054.jpg088Overview_NewWebsite_2018_054A gaucho herds a group of Criollo horses across a river on La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/125https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/089Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0552.jpg089Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0552Farmer takes a cigarette break while plowing fields in Mazowsze, Poland. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/126https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/090Overview_NewWebsite_2018_059.jpg01-014.jpgThe BOPE, a highly trained elite police force practice abseiling during training with backdrop of Rio de Janeiro and the Sugar Loaf mountain, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/127https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/091Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0571.jpg01-066.jpgSeveral young boys in the favela Perreirao work on a personal project of recreating in miniature their favela with bricks and other materials. They play cops and drug dealers thereby recreating what goes on all over their neighbourhood in real life, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/128https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/092Overview_NewWebsite_2018_058.jpg01-008.jpgArmed drug dealers in a favela close to Rio de Janeiro's wealthy southern neighbourhood of Leblon. Most of the drug dealers are in their teens or early twenties, their life expectancy is very short, because of the very high risk lifestyle they have adopted, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/129https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/093Overview_NewWebsite_2018_056.jpg093Overview_NewWebsite_2018_056In the Rio de Janeiro favela of City of God, residents connect illegally to the electricity grid for a free supply of energy, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/130https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/094Overview_NewWebsite_2018_060.jpg094Overview_NewWebsite_2018_060Young boys in a music rehearsal utilise recycled tin drums of oil, paint and other such materials to create musical drums as part of a social rehab programme known as "Bagunçao", to get children off the the streets and drug use and trafficking, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/131https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/095Overview_NewWebsite_2018_062.jpg095Overview_NewWebsite_2018_062Funeral of Alicia Georges, two days before the downfall of the" Baby Doc" Duvalier regime, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/132https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/b_NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_020.jpgb_NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_020The once a year Oruro carnival is a colourful fusion of European an Andean music, dance and culture where the participants wind their way around the city centre, Oruro, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/133https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/a_NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_008.jpga_NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_008Vicente Alejandra (L), a witchdoctor known as a Curandero, sprays a patient with a special home made potion to cure a dietary ailment, surrounded by the accoutrements of his trade, including skulls, special rocks and stones, Perú. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/134https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/096Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0611.jpg01-004.jpgMilitary police enter Pixunga favela in search of drugs and arms after a night of bloody violence, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/135https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/c_NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_025.jpgc_NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_025The shy family of Abraham and Elizabeth Friesen and children sit on their front porch of home in the Mennonite community of Rio Verde, Paraguay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/136https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20230326_Argentina_Cba_gaucho__0050.jpg20230326_Argentina_Cba_gaucho__0050Hector "Gato" Augusto Diaz walks through the internal courtyard of his extended family's Jesuit ranch Santa Catalina, Ascochinga, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/137https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20230326_Argentina_Cba_Cars_Gaucho_0047-19.jpg20230326_Argentina_Cba_Cars_Gaucho_0047-19Hector "Gato" Augusto Diaz, drinking a beer in Jesuit ranch Santa Catalina ranch, Ascochinga, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/138https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/097Overview_NewWebsite_2018_085.jpg097Overview_NewWebsite_2018_085SHELL - Lets's Go campaign - JWT - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/139https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/098Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0632.jpg098Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0632HSBC - Soya sauce - JWT - Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/140https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/099Overview_NewWebsite_2018_064.jpg099Overview_NewWebsite_2018_064HSBC - Tai Chi - JWT - China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/141https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/100Overview_NewWebsite_2018_065.jpg100Overview_NewWebsite_2018_065SHELL - Lets's Go campaign - JWT - New York City, USA https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/142https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/101Overview_NewWebsite_2018_066.jpg101Overview_NewWebsite_2018_066SHELL - Lets's Go campaign - JWT - Tokyo, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/143https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/102Overview_NewWebsite_2018_067.jpg102Overview_NewWebsite_2018_067SHELL - Lets's Go campaign - JWT - Leicester, UK. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/144https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/103Overview_NewWebsite_2018_068.jpg103Overview_NewWebsite_2018_068SHELL - Lets's Go campaign - JWT - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/145https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/104Overview_NewWebsite_2018_069.jpg104Overview_NewWebsite_2018_069SHELL - Lets's Go campaign - JWT - New York City - USA. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/146https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/119Overview_NewWebsite_2018_084.jpg207924_6003007_Cookstove_SP Concept.inddSHELL - Let's Go campaign - JWT - Cape Town, South Africa. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/147https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/logo_20130930_shell_restaurant_china_0455.jpglogo_20130930_shell_restaurant_china_0455SHELL - Let's Go campaign - JWT - Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/148https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/105Overview_NewWebsite_2018_070.jpg105Overview_NewWebsite_2018_070HSBC - Premier campaign - JWT - London, UK. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/149https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/106Overview_NewWebsite_2018_071.jpg106Overview_NewWebsite_2018_071HSBC - Premier campaign - JWT - Oxford, UK. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/150https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/107Overview_NewWebsite_2018_072.jpg107Overview_NewWebsite_2018_072HSBC - Premier campaign - JWT - Oxford, UK. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/151https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/108Overview_NewWebsite_2018_073.jpg108Overview_NewWebsite_2018_073HSBC - Premier campaign - JWT - Dubai, UAE. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/152https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/109Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0741.jpg109Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0741HSBC - Premier campaign - JWT - Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/153https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/110Overview_NewWebsite_2018_075.jpg110Overview_NewWebsite_2018_075HSBC - Premier campaign - JWT - Sao Paulo, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/154https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/111Overview_NewWebsite_2018_076.jpg111Overview_NewWebsite_2018_076HSBC - Premier campaign - JWT - South Africa. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/155https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/112Overview_NewWebsite_2018_077.jpg112Overview_NewWebsite_2018_077HSBC - Premier campaign - JWT - Schafhausen, Switzerland. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/156https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/113Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0781.jpg113Overview_NewWebsite_2018_0781CANON - Come and See campaign - JWT - Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/157https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/114Overview_NewWebsite_2018_079.jpgSyngenta 48 sheet uk master.inddSYNGENTA - The good growth plan - Ogilvy & Mather - Kenya. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/158https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/115Overview_NewWebsite_2018_080.jpg115Overview_NewWebsite_2018_080VODAFONE - 4G Influencers campaign - Brand Union - London, UK https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/159https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/116Overview_NewWebsite_2018_081.jpg116Overview_NewWebsite_2018_081VODAFONE - 4G Influencers campaign - Brand Union - London, UK https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/160https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/117Overview_NewWebsite_2018_082.jpg605322_6003551_NEWGSK_PORTRAIT_V2.inddGSK - Grey - London, UK. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/161https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/118Overview_NewWebsite_2018_083.jpg605322_6003551_NEWGSK_PORTRAIT_V2.inddGSK - Grey - Nairobi, Kenya. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portfolio/162https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Syngenta_Poster.jpgSyngenta_Poster https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Brazil_Incarnate_2000b.pngTEXT_Brazil_Incarnate_2000b https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_001Brazil Incarnate, "The beach is our shop window", a couple on display on Barra de Tijuca beach, in what is always a display of peacocks in a city that never sleeps, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10191919.jpg01-001.jpgSunrise over Rio de Janeiro, the eternal "cidade maravilhosa", overlooked by the Corcovado (statue of Christ), 2004. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_002Brazil Incarnate, three gay lovers preen themselves like peacocks on display in front of the Sugar loaf mountain and Guanabara bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1986. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_003-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_003-2Brazil Incarnate, the beach is the boulevard of desire, Barra de Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20130707_football_brazil_0160b.jpg20130707_football_brazil_0160bPerhaps one of the most iconing images you may find: A group of friends playing a game of football on Copacabana beach with a sand sculpture of "cariocas" sunbathing watched over by Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, 2013. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_004Brazil Incarnate, In the shape of a Greek god a man plays Volley - Football on Leblón Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1990. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_005Brazil Incarnate, men dancing at a beach party, Arrial d'Ayuda, Bahia, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/falamengo_beach_1991.jpgfalamengo_beach_1991Brazil Incarnate, she / he flirting on Flamengo beach, Rio de Janeiro, 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_006Brazil Incarnate, a couple greet friends on Ipanema beach, whilst others continue to enjoy the pleasures of a tropical day in the city known as the "eternally beautiful one", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_007-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_007-2Brazil Incarnate, a couple embrace at a cocktail party in Maxim's restaurant, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20161215_brazil_rio_0489.jpg20161215_brazil_rio_0489A tram passes a street mural painting by the Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra in the port area of Rio de Janeiro which was redeveloped for the 2016 Olympic games. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_008Brazil Incarnate, during carnival a woman dances to the sensual sounds of Samba Reggae on the hot and humid streets of Salvador de Bahía, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_009-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_009-2Brazil Incarnate, "Fatal", a transvestite dances on a table at the "G" ball during carnival, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_010Brazil Incarnate, an object of desire and adulation. A girl's shadow dances playfully on a Porto Seguro town wall. The small town was the first settlement founded by the Portuguese settlers in 1500, Bahia, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Salvador_Bahia_1992.jpgSalvador_Bahia_1992Salvador, Bahia, 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_011Brazil Incarnate, men working out on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_012.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_012Brazil Incarnate, enraptured by the spirit of carnival and copious amounts of alcohol, young men and women dance and kiss in a frenzy of desire, Salvador, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/maxims_1994.jpgmaxims_1994A couple enjoy an intimate moment at a private party inside Maxim's Restaurant and nightclub, Rio de Janeiro, 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Sao_cristobal_Rio_1993.jpgSao_cristobal_Rio_1993Vila Mimosa, Rio de Janeiro, 1993. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Pepe_beach_1993_1.jpgPepe_beach_1993_1Pepe Beach, Rio de Janeiro, 1993. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_013Brazil Incarnate, an object of desire and adulation. A girl's shadow dances playfully on a Porto Seguro town wall. The small town was the first settlement founded by the Portuguese settlers in 1500, Bahia, Brazil. 1992 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_014.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_014Brazil Incarnate, transvestites Luciana and Michelle playfully make-up in their apartment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_015Brazil Incarnate, the Madonna look-a-like actress, Regina Restelli , being photographed a top the Sugar Loaf mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20170101_brazil_rio_1287.jpg20170101_brazil_rio_1287Tourists and locals alike walk along the famous "Calsadao", the distinctive wavy sidewalk, created by Roberto Burle Marx, the famous landscape architect along Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro, 2016 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10119210.jpgCPA-10119210Barra de Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, 2004 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_016.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_016Brazil Incarnate, Luis Tadeu, a well known drag queen, also known a Meme dos Brilhos, prepares herself for her night performance at Casanova club, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_017.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_017Brazil Incarnate, men working out on Pepe beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1993. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_018.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_018Brazil Incarnate, in pursuit and celebration of the perfect body, young women line up on stage for the Miss Barra de Tijuca Beach beauty pageant, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1993. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_019.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_019Brazil Incarnate, a couple pose in all their beauty as Greek gods on a beach in Salvador da Bahía, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10094575.jpgCPA-10094575Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, 1997. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_020.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_020Brazil Incarnate, men meet, talk, and sunbath at the iconic "posto 9" patch of Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Pepe_Beach_1993_2.jpgPepe_Beach_1993_2Pepe beach, Rio de janeiro, 1993 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-11067660.jpgCPA-11067660 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/arrial_dajuda_1992.jpgarrial_dajuda_1992Arrial D'Ajuda, Bahia, 1992 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_021.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_021Brazil Incarnate. Couple dance to the Samba beat of summer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/salvador_bahia_1992_1.jpgsalvador_bahia_1992_1Salvador, Bahia, 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/porto_seguro_1992_3.jpgporto_seguro_1992_3Porto Seguro, Bahia, 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Porto_seguro_1992.jpgPorto_seguro_1992Porto Seguro, Bahia, 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_022.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_022Brazil Incarnate. Drag queens coquettishly walk the streets of Ipanema on a hot humid nigh, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/41https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-1007649.jpgCPA-1007649Francis Payva surfaces as "Fernanda Bruna" a metaphor for the ambiguity of Brazilian sexuality, Rio de Janeiro, 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/42https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_023.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_023Brazil Incarnate. Drag queens hit the night going from one club to another in search of fun, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/43https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/maromba_1994.jpgmaromba_1994Maromba, 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/44https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_024.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_024Brazil Incarnate. Wearing a peroxide blond wig, Laura de Vison, Rio de Janeiro's most famous drag queen, also a primary school teacher and TV personality, celebrates carnival with fellow transvestite friends at the Gay ball, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/45https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20161231_brazil_rio_1153.jpg20161231_brazil_rio_1153In the heat of the night revealers on Copacabana beach celebrate the dawn of a New Year with a displays of fireworks, champagne, music and dance, Rio de Janeiro, 2016. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/46https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_030-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_030-2Brazil Incarnate. A male moment of seduction on the streets of Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/47https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_025_1.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_025_1Brazil Incarnate. Transvestite men dancing on the tables at the G ball during the build up to carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/48https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_026-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_026-2Brazil Incarnate, in a bar in Villa Mimosa, a man eyes up a woman whom turns out to be a prostitute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1993. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/49https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_027.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_027Brazil Incarnate. Transvestite men dancing and kissing on the tables at the G ball during the build up to carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/50https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10067636.jpgCPA-10067636On a hot and humid night a couple dance to Bahia's "Samba Reggae", Salvador, Bahia. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/51https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_028.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_028Brazil Incarnate. A male stripper shows off his assets to to a gay audience under the nonchalant gaze of the club's manager, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/52https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_029.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_029Brazil Incarnate. A woman dances to the sensual beats at Portela Samba school during build up to carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/53https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_031-2.jpgRio, the city of SambaAdmiring and adulating hands celebrate the female form on the day the Rio Carnival organisers announce the Samba school winners of the year's globally famed event at Imperatriz Leopoldinense Samba school, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2000. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/54https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_032.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_032 Brazil Incarnate, a half naked man appears through a doorway as a woman rests against a wall during the Olinda carnival, Pernambuco, Brazil. 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/55https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_033.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_033Brazil Incarnate. Men and women cover themselves in mud from the seashore to celebrate the first day of carnival and in essence just have fun to look like pre - historic people, Paratí, Brazil. 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/56https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Pepe_Beach_1993.jpgPepe_Beach_1993Brazil Incarnate. Ze Reinaldo, basking in his own glorious vanity, Pepe beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/57https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CaetanoVeloso.jpgCaetanoVelosoCaetano Veloso, legendary musician, composer, writer and leading light in Brazil's musical canon, Salvador, 1995. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/58https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_034.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_034Brazil Incarnate. Young men, boys and girls get hosed down under the blistering hot summer sun with the build up to carnival, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/59https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10094573.jpgCPA-10094573'Beach volleyball, Copacabana Beach, Rio, 1997 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/60https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_038.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_038Brazil Incarnate. Ze Reinaldo, basking in his own glorious vanity, Barra, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/61https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_035.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_035Brazil Incarnate. Women meet, talk, and sunbath on Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/62https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_039-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_039-2Brazil Incarnate. A woman enjoys the sun on a beach in Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/63https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_036.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_036Brazil Incarnate, unveiling herself to two young boys on Flamengo beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/64https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_040-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_040-2Brazil Incarnate. Francis as Fernanda, a cross dresser. "To me cross dressing is theater, a very potent tool for seduction", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/65https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_037.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_037Brazil Incarnate. Sunbathing in Teresopolis, Brazil. 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/66https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/rio_de_janeiro_rosana_1993.jpgrio_de_janeiro_rosana_1993Rio de Janeiro, 1993. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/67https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_041-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_041-2Brazil Incarnate. Laura de Vison, a notorious transvestite teacher- nightclub performer dressing up in drag for her weekend night performance, O Bohemio club, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/68https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10094580.jpgCPA-10094580Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, 1997. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/69https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_042-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_042-2Brazil Incarnate. Transvestite men dancing on the tables at the G ball during the build up to carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/70https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_043.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_043Brazil Incarnate. The gaiety of street carnival acts a a vehicle to demonstrate excess, narcissism and pure unrestrained joy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/71https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_044.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_044Brazil Incarnate. The chic "Hawaiian" themed carnival ball in Rio de Janeiro's exclusive Yacht Club, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-Incarnate/72https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_045-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Incarnate_045-2Brazil Incarnate. Perhaps the perfect metaphor: temptation in the form of a serpents tattoo on a perfectly rounded bottom, the most prized object of Brazilian male fantasies and desire, but in this case on the body of a transvestite. The ultimate transgression, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Egypt_Tomb_Robbers_2016.pngTEXT_Egypt_Tomb_Robbers_2016 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Egypt_Tomb_Robbers_2016_2.pngTEXT_Egypt_Tomb_Robbers_2016_2 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_001The village of old Al Qurna clings to the slopes of the Theban hills filled with endless quantities of Pharaonic tombs. For centuries its inhabitants had unhindered access to these burial grounds. In 2007 the Egyptian Govt. order most of its destruction, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_002Egyptian tomb robbers at work in middle kingdom burial sites in search of ancient Pharaonic treasures. They work in claustrophobic environments where fatal accidents and serious pulmonary ailments are ever present. If caught, robbers will get 25 year jail terms, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_003Egyptian tomb robbers at work in middle kingdom burial sites in search of ancient Pharaonic treasures. They work in claustrophobic environments where fatal accidents and serious pulmonary ailments are ever present. If caught, robbers will get 25 year jail terms, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_004After weeks of back breaking sweaty, dangerous and suffocating work, lungs filled with very fine dust the tomb robbers have come across a valuable cachet of ancient antiquities. The content of this bucket: Ushebties (small figurines), mummy beads, pottery pieces, and for the lucky ones a head of a Canope or parts of statues, human bones and linen from destroyed mummies. This photograph shows the illegal activity of Tomb robbers at work whom if caught will get a 25 year jail sentence, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_005Tomb robbers exit the network of tunnels and chambers that date back to the arrival of Napoleon's armies in Egypt in1798. It was the birth of what came to be known as Egyptology and consequently made the contents of these tombs priceless to western museums and private collectors. This photograph shows the illegal activity of Tomb robbers at work whom if caught will get a 25 year jail sentence, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_006The village of old Al Qurna clings to the slopes of the Theban hills filled with endless quantities of Pharaonic tombs. For centuries its inhabitants had unhindered access to these burial grounds. In 2007 the Egyptian Govt. order most of its destruction, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_007A wall painting inside tomb TT 40 in Al Qurna in the Theben hills. Seen here: parts of plaster work onto which the paintings where made have been intentionally cut out by tomb robbers because they know the street value the can achieve by selling it to tourists. The TT 40 tombs had been closed for over 40 years and when they were reopened at the end of 2014 the authorities discovered that tomb robbers had entered and defaced the walls to continue their illicit trade, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_008The Colossi of Memnon marks the eastern entrance of the Amenhotep III Temple in Thebes. Today it is one of the most important reconstruction projects of its kind in Egypt. Despite strict security measures, it also provides many of the small objects which make their way to the buoyant tourist industry. The temple being sandwiched between Luxor and the Valley of the Kings in Thebes, is a magnet for mass tourism, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_009The Colossi of Memnon marks the eastern entrance of the Amenhotep III Temple in Thebes. Today it is one of the most important reconstruction projects of its kind in Egypt. Despite strict security measures, it also provides many of the small objects which make their way to the buoyant tourist industry. The temple being sandwiched between Luxor and the Valley of the Kings in Thebes, is a magnet for mass tourism, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_010The Colossi of Memnon marks the eastern entrance of the Amenhotep III Temple in Thebes. Today it is one of the most important reconstruction projects of its kind in Egypt. Despite strict security measures, it also provides many of the small objects which make their way to the buoyant tourist industry. The temple being sandwiched between Luxor and the Valley of the Kings in Thebes, is a magnet for mass tourism, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_011A dealer shows off two of his recent acquisitions being a statue and a head piece of a Sarcophagus with an asking price locally of Egyptian £ 40.000 and £ 100.000 respectively, In Europe they may sell for 5 times this value to approximately € 50,000.00 and €110,000.00, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_012.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_012A big dealer shows a set of Sarcophagus to a potential client on a smartphone as for safety reasons he can not expose the location of such large and pricey items, unless the customer shows his real interest by a non refundable advance of € 10.000. Often because these items become difficult to sell due to their size they end up being destroyed and sold as smaller items or occasionally used as fire wood, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Egypt---Tomb-robbers/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Egypt_013Temple of Ramses II, Ramesseum. Also known as the Million Years Temple from 18th Dynasty. For hundreds of years the Ramesseum was a source of artefacts and papyri for museums and private collectors all over the world. Giovanni Belzoni was one of the largest legal plunderers of Egyptian antiquities providing the British Museum with a 7 ton statue of Rameses II from this temple, Egypt. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Japan_Shinto_Masa_2016.pngTEXT_Japan_Shinto_Masa_2016 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/001_20160102_shinto_japan_11358.jpg001_20160102_shinto_japan_11358Masatsugo Okutani, 41 walks through the grounds of the Yabuhara sanctuary and the "Torii", the entrance gates in preparation for the winter Grand Purification ceremony in Kiso Mura, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/002_20151230_shinto_japan_9923.jpg002_20151230_shinto_japan_9923Kazufumi Okutani, 71 and son Masatsugu, 41 are the 24th and 25th generational Shinto "priests" in their family dating back to the 12th century. In the background scrolls are a number of illustrations of the Okutani family dynasty dating back to the first of their "priest" lineage. Shinto for Japanese society, represents a place and a time to purify and reconnect with life's vital forces, Kiso Mura, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/003_20160102_shinto_japan_11197.jpg003_20160102_shinto_japan_11197Masatsugo Okutani, 41 walks through the grounds of the Yabuhara sanctuary and the "Torii" in preparation for the winter Grand Purification ceremony in Kiso Mura village, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/004_20160102_shinto_japan_10886.jpg004_20160102_shinto_japan_10886Inside the Yabuhara sanctuary believers when paying a visit will hang an O-mikuji, onto ropes in the grounds. O-mikuji are random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/005_20160710_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15940.jpg005_20160710_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15940Masatsugu Okutani, 41 performs a waterfall purification ceremony at Kiyo-Taki waterfall. Purification is one of the most important aspects of Shinto as well as being at the core of Japanese culture, Nagano, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/006_20151231_shinto_japan_10344.jpg006_20151231_shinto_japan_10344Masatsugo Okutani, 41 together with his father Kazufumi, 71 in preparation for the winter Grand Purification ceremony in Kiso Mura village. Seen here dressing into their traditional ceremonial clothes helped by wife Miki and watched over by their granddaughter Mao, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/007_20160708_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_14908.jpg007_20160708_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_14908Four Shinto priests, headed by Kazufumi Okutani, 71 and his son Masatsugu Okutani, 41 leave their family home and walk to the heart of the Yabuhara Sanctuary in Kiso Mura village to conduct the Grand Summer Purification ceremony. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize one's sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the "here and now" and allow one's sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity. Nagano prefecture. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/008_20160102_shinto_japan_10939.jpg008_20160102_shinto_japan_10939Masatsugu Okutani, 41 is the 25th generational SHINTO "officiant" - priest -in his family line dating back to the 12th century AD. SHINTO represents for japanese society a place and a time to purify and reconnect with life's vital forces aided by nature's energy and its representations. Kiso Mura villge, Nagano province. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/009_20151230_shinto_japan_10010.jpg009_20151230_shinto_japan_10010Members of the association of the Yabuhara Sanctuary arrive for the winter Grand Purification ceremony conducted by Kazufumi and Masatsugu Okutani the "officiants" / priests of the sanctuary in Kiso Mura, a tradition that dates back to the 12th century in the village, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/010_20160102_shinto_japan_11273.jpg010_20160102_shinto_japan_11273Masatsugo Okutani, 41 walks through the grounds of the Yabuhara sanctuary and the "Torii" in preparation for the winter Grand Purification ceremony in Kiso Mura village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/011_20151230_shinto_japan_10142.jpg011_20151230_shinto_japan_10142Kazufumi Okutani, 71 is the25th generational Shinto priest in his family line dating back to the 12th century AD. Shinto represents for Japanese society a place and a time to purify and reconnect with life's vital forces aided by nature's energy and its representations. Seen here conducting the Grand Winter Purification ceremony, Kiso Mura village, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/012_20160101_shinto_japan_10549.jpg012_20160101_shinto_japan_10549Masatsugu Okutani, 41 and Kazufumi, 71 are the 24th and 25th generational SHINTO priests in the family line dating back to the 12th century AD. SHINTO represents for Japanese society a place and a time to purify and reconnect with life's vital forces aided by nature's energy and its representations. Seen here conducting the Grand Winter Purification ceremony, Kiso Mura village, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/013_20160102_shinto_japan_11005.jpg013_20160102_shinto_japan_11005Masatsugo Okutani, 41 walks through the grounds of the Yabuhara sanctuary and the "Torii" in preparation for the summer Grand Purification ceremony in Kiso Mura village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/014_20160103_shinto_japan_11606.jpg014_20160103_shinto_japan_11606Buddhist monk Káhan Kamata, 56 rings the Buddhist temple Hojozan Gokurakuji bell as Masatsugo Okutani, 41 from Yabuhara sanctuary looks on, Kiso Mura village, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/015_20160103_shinto_japan_11493.jpg015_20160103_shinto_japan_11493Buddhist monk Káhan Kamata, 56 and Masatsugo Okutani, 41 enjoy a green tea inside the Buddhist temple which lies side by side with the Yabuhara sanctuary in Kiso Mura village. Masatsugo pays a visit to his neighbour to welcome in the New Year, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/016_20160103_shinto_japan_11552.jpg016_20160103_shinto_japan_11552Buddhist monk Káhan Kamata, 56 and Masatsugo Okutani, 41 sit quietly discussing philosophical matters inside the peaceful Zen garden of the Buddhist temple " Hojozan Gokurakuji" in Kiso Mura temple, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/017_20160103_shinto_japan_11714.jpg017_20160103_shinto_japan_11714Buddhist monk Káhan Kamata, 56 and Masatsugo Okutani, 41 bid each other farewell on the steps separating the Buddist Temple "Hojozan Gokurakuji" from Yabuhara sanctuary in Kiso Mura village, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/018_20160114_shinto_paris_12501.jpg018_20160114_shinto_paris_12501Masatsugu Okutani, 41 relaxes reading a book at home in Paris before heading off to the offices of the Japanese food company Ajinomoto for whom he is the Marketing manager responsible for the Co's sales throughout Europe, France. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/018a20160114_shinto_paris_12766.jpg018a20160114_shinto_paris_12766Masatugu Okutani, 41 walks to work from his apartment in Paris to the offices of the Japanese food company Ajinomoto for whom he is the Marketing manager responsible for the Co's sales throughout Europe, France. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/019_20160116_shinto_paris_13289.jpg019_20160116_shinto_paris_13289Masatsugu Okutani, 41 takes a stroll through Saint Germain de Pres with friend Sarah in his leisure time, Paris. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/020_20160117_shinto_paris_13439.jpg020_20160117_shinto_paris_13439Masatsugu Okutani, 41 has a drink and dinner at Cafe Charbon with friend Sarah, Paris. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/021_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15066.jpg021_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15066Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 dresses into his ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony to be held at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, with the help of two of his Shinto priest colleagues, Kageji Toyama and Kiyoto Suyama from neighbouring villages. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize one's sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the "here and now" and allow one's sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity, Kiso Mura village https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/022_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15136.jpg022_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15136Shinto priests Masatsugu Okutani, 41 together with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71 dressed in ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony at the Yabuhara Sanctuary. Accompanying them Kagesi Toyama and Kiyoto Suyama, which will assist in the ceremonial festivities which take place over a 36 hour period in early July. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from one's body and mind. Kiso Mura, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/023_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15151.jpg023_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15151Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 dressed in his ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony to be held at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71. They are the 25th and 24th uninterrupted generational SHINTO priests in their family line dating back to the 12th century AD. Seen here leaving the family home to walk to the inner sanctum of their sanctuary. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize one's sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the "here and now" and allow one's sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity, Kiso Mura village https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/024_20160708_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_14896.jpg024_20160708_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_14896Four Shinto priests, headed by Kazufumi Okutani, 71 and his son Masatsugu Okutani, 41 leave their family home and walk to the heart of the Yabuhara Sanctuary in Kiso Mura village to conduct the Grand Summer Purification ceremony. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize one's sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the "here and now" and allow one's sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity. Nagano prefecture. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/025_20160107_shinto_japan_12106.jpg025_20160107_shinto_japan_12106The Japanese faithful obey the rules of cleansing their psychological and physical impurities before entering the imposing Meiji Sanctuary in the heart of Tokyo. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/026_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15218.jpg026_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15218Four Shinto priests, headed by Kazufumi Okutani, 71 and his son Masatsugu Okutani, 41 leave their family home and walk to the heart of the Yabuhara Sanctuary in Kiso Mura village to conduct the Grand Summer Purification ceremony and festival. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize one's sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the "here and now" and allow one's sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity. Nagano prefecture. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/027_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15395.jpg027_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15395Members of the association of Yabuhara Sanctuary stand in silence in a rain soaked morning as the Mikoshi weaves its way through the village of Kiso Muta as part of the Summer festival celebrations. The Mikoshi is literally a wheel-less human powered transporter of "a litter of Kami (i.e. "Mi"= Kami, and "Koshi"= a litter)" which carry the Kami (the zillions of divinities). The Mikoshi is also a portable Shinto shrine which on continuation of the ceremony is then carried by a large number of strong young men on their shoulders across the village for approximately 12 â 14 hours. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/028_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15321.jpg028_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15321Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 together with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71 conduct the Summer Festival starting in Yabuhara sanctuary and weaving itself through Kiso Mura village. Seen here the moment of the ceremony called "Houbei-no-gi" which expresses the deepest respect moments after the most central part of the sanctuary which dates back to 680 AD at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, is taken down to be placed inside the Mikoshi. The Mikoshi is literally a wheel-less human powered transporter of "a litter of Kami. The "Festival" known as "Matsuri" in Japanese is conducted across 80.000 Jinjas / sanctuary throughout Japan and the number of Jinja increase to 4.000.000 sanctuaries if including very small ones. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/029_20160708_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_14922.jpg029_20160708_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_14922Four Shinto priests, headed by Kazufumi Okutani, 71 and his son Masatsugu Okutani, 41 leave their family home and walk to the heart of the Yabuhara Sanctuary in Kiso Mura village to conduct the Grand Summer Purification ceremony. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize one's sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the "here and now" and allow one's sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity. Nagano prefecture. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/030_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15326.jpg030_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15326Shinto priest Masatsugu Okutani, 41 together with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71 conduct the Summer Festival starting in Yabuhara sanctuary and weaving itself through Kiso Mura village. Seen here the moment of the ceremony called "Houbei-no-gi" which expresses the deepest respect moments after the most central part of the sanctuary which dates back to 680 AD at the Yabuhara Sanctuary, is taken down to be placed inside the Mikoshi. The Mikoshi is literally a wheel-less human powered transporter of "a litter of Kami. The "Festival" known as "Matsuri" in Japanese is conducted across 80.000 Jinjas / sanctuary throughout Japan and the number of Jinja increase to 4.000.000 sanctuaries if including very small ones. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/031_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15379.jpg031_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15379The Mikoshi leaves Yabuhara sanctuary and is carried through the village of Kiso Mura as part of the Summer festival parade. For the participants it is an all day sake drinking affair, stopping en route to soak up the alcohol with food as they sing along. The Mikoshi is literally a wheel-less human powered transporter of divinities. The Mikoshi is also a portable Shinto shrine which is carried by a large number of strong young men on their shoulders across the village for approximately 12 hours, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/031b_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15414.jpg031b_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15414The Sarutahiko-no-kami. the role of these Kami are to guide the Mikoshi during the Summer Festival parade through the village of Kiso Mura. As one theory goes, it is said that these kami represents western people as they have big nose, big eyes, red and white faces, and blond hair. Sarutahiko-no-kami guides Mikoshi from the Yabuhara sanctuary, across the village and back to the sanctuary at the end of the festivities. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/032_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15509.jpg032_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15509The Mikoshi is carried through the village of Kiso Mura as part of the Summer festival parade. Here been overlooked by Kazufumi Okutani, 71 the senior Shinto priest of the village of Kiso Mura. For all the participants it is an all day sake drinking affair, stopping en route to soak up the alcohol with food as they sing along as part of the celebrations, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/033_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15522.jpg033_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15522Members of the Yabuhara Sanctuary association stand in silence holding lanterns as the Mikoshi weaves its way through the village of Kiso Muta as part of the Summer festival celebrations. The Mikoshi is literally a wheel-less human transporter of "Kami" - divinities, Japan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Japan---Double-life-of-a-Shinto-priest/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/034_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15624.jpg034_20160709_Masatsugu_okutani_shinto_Kiso_Mura_JPN_15624 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/1bf.3.jpg1bf.3 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_001A goalpost on Ipanema beach at day break, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_002A group of friends play a game of football on Copacabana beach with a sand sculpture of "cariocas" sunbathing whilst Christ the Redeemer keeps a watchful eye, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_003Boys play football in the narrow streets of Jacarezinho Favela, Rio's second largest (POP: 200.000) and until recently a no go zone due to the violent drug trade which infested all of the city's favelas, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/a_20140810_shell_rio_football_favela_7076.jpga_20140810_shell_rio_football_favela_7076A kickabout at dusk inside Favela da Mineira, overlooked by the ever present Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_005a.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_005aA father and son play football on Niteroi beach at dusk with a view of the Guanabara bay, Christ the Redeemer and the Sugar Loaf mountain, Rio de Janeiro. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_006In the absence of green spaces in the megacity that is Sao Paulo, a boy kicks a ball to friends on the streets of Brazil's industrial heartland. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_004A group of young men defy logic to brighten their day by playing a "kick about" on a Sao Paulo skyscraper, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_007In their time off oil workers spend what free time they have to play football in a purpose built caged football pitch atop a Petrobras, Brazilian state owned oil company's platform, Atlantic ocean. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20140331_shell_rio_football_favela_1430.jpg20140331_shell_rio_football_favela_1430Kids in a kickabout inside Favela da Mineira, Rio de Janeiro. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_008Playing "soapy" football to demonstrate ball control skills on a wet, soapy and inflatable football pitch, Recife city, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20140331_shell_rio_football_favela_1355.jpg20140331_shell_rio_football_favela_1355 João, 13, poses before a game inside Favela da Mineira, Rio de Janeiro. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_009A group of young women playing a "pelada" a kick about in a graffiiti covered walled, cobbled street known as the "Beco do Batman" in Vila Madalena, Sao Paulo city, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_010The great Brazilian footballing icons past and present on a graffiti mural, Pele the legend together with the present super star Neymar Jr, recently sold to Barcelona FC on a Santos wall, the city where the former still lives today as well as the team he played for most of his professional life, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20140812_shell_rio_football_favela_8142_copy.jpg20140812_shell_rio_football_favela_8142_copyKids playing ball inside Favela da Mineira, Rio de Janeiro. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_011Mum's and neighbours watch their children playing a game of football on the streets of Jacarezinho favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_012.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_012Friends from favela Jacarezinho strke a pose after a game of football on the earth pitch of their neighbourhood. Until recently their favela was controlled by the drug cartels which usually ment that the only way to make money was either becoming involved with the drug gangs and risking what would be a short life or trying to make it as a professional footballer, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_013Young boys play football on the streets of favela Jacarezinho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_014.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_014A mural close to the legendary Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro depicts some of Brazil's most illustrious footballing legends, such as Taffarell, the '94 World Cup golkeeper as well as other stars from past campaigns, such as Garrincha whom took Brazil to two consecutive World Cup wins with Pele in 1958 and 1962. He had a tumultous life on and off the field fathering at leats 14 children from two marriages and other affairs and in 1983 he succumed to cirrhosis of the liver from excessive drinking throughout his adult life, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_015A group of young men play a pelada, a "kick about" on a rare mist shrowded Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_016.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_016Young men play football in the heart of Rocinha favela, considered the most densely populated one in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_017.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_017Under an Amazonian tropical rainstorm in a village close to the tri-border town of Tabatinga a group of boys wallow in the muddy pleasure of football, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_018.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_018Boys play football on Sao Paulo city elevated trunk road known as the "Minhocao" on a Sunday where the city authorities close it off to traffic to allow citizens to cycle, jog or play ball, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_019.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_019Young boys playing football in front of a painted mural of one of Brazil's former icons of the 1970 World Cup, the Roberto Rivellino school of football, Sao Paulo city, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_020.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_020Young skateboarders fly past a football inspired graffiti mural of the controversial "Engenhao" stadium Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_021.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_021Boys play a pelada in the narrow streets of Favela Jacarezinho, once a no go zone due to the heavy presence of the dangerous and violent drug gangs which had a strangle hold on life inside these densely populated neighbourhoods, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_022.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_022Damiao an ardent football fan visits a "Mai de Santo", a Candomblé priestess to pray that Brazil win the 1998 World Cup, Rio de Janeiro. Candomle is an African animist religion which has been incorporated into popular Brazilian culture and is widely followed by the poor in society, https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_023.1.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_023.1At dinning table and below the Last Supper, surrounded by multiple trophies for their football successes, priests of the Santo Tomás de Villanova seminary take an afternoon break before heading to the pitch to play another game against fellow seminarians, Ourinhos, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_024.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_024Seminarians from the Santo Agostino seminary 200 Kms west of Rio de Janeiro put on their football boots to play against a local team, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_025.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_025Robbed priests of Santo Tomás de Villanova seminary play a game of football against international student trainees. The seminarian football team have won in recent years many local trophies as they remain amongst the best team in the region, Ourinhos, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_026.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_026A priest from Santo Tomas de Vilanova seminary, practices his skills on the pitch, Ourinhos, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_027.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_027Priests from Santo Tomas de Vilanova seminary, play football against a team of international theology and philosophy students seminarians, Ourinhos, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_028.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_028Priests of the Santo Tomás de Villanova seminary, play a game of football against student trainees. The seminarian football team has won many local trophies as they are amongst the best team in the region, Ourinhos, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_029.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_029Priests from Santo Tomas de Vilanova seminary, play football against a team of international theology and philosophy students, Ourinhos, Brazil https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_030.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_030Leandro "Maradona" Marques, an ardent Flamango FC fanatic practices his ball skills against a wall, on his back a rosary and crucifix tattoo in the shaped of Brazil's territorial boundaries. In it's centre Flamengo's anthem . As he says " every time his team make a goal he cries with joy, his girlfriends come second in importance to Flamengo FC. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_031.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_031Heavily tatttoed Danilo Gomes 25, a Corinthians FC fanatic outside the headquarters of one of the team's "organised" fan clubs ", known as "Gavioes da Fiel" or Hawks of the Faithful, Sao Paulo city, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_032.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_032Tiago Alves, 24 spends 12 hours a day doing "keepy - uppies" at a traffic light in the heart of Santos city the home of legend Pele and current stars Robinho and Neymar Jr. He raises usually about U$S 50 to U$S 70 / day as a way of surviving. He's being doing this for the past 8 years, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_033.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_033A little boy runs past a mural depicting the infamous defeat of Brazil against Uruguay by 2-1 in the 1950 World Cup held in Brazil in the packed Maracana stadium. The country has never forgotten this most painfull of defeats on home soil. Brazil is hoping to put this right with the 2014 WC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_034.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_034Miroca, one of Brazil's most revered talent scouts amidst a large group of young hopefuls searching out the next generation of future fooballing stars, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_035.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_035A young player from the junior amateur league at Vasco da Gama FC sleeps under a sheet of the team's coat of arms, named after the great portuguese explorer, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/41https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_036.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_036At the house of Valtinho "Vascaino" Cabral a group of friends play pool football surrounded by Rio's Vasco da Gama football club's coat of arms. Valtinho is an obsessive fanatic of the club. Saquarema, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/42https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_037.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_037Outside the grounds of Botafogo club, graffiti covered walls depict some of the greatest stars to come out of the club's history, such as Garrincha, Jairzinho, Jefferson, Nilton Santos and Didi, most of whom went on to represent Brazil's national winning Wolrd Cup teams, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/43https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_038.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_038In the largest amateur championship in the world, all Amazon based football teams choose to have as a mascot a beauty queen. Seen Maciele Gomes, 18 whom is out celebrating with the team's fans after winning the 1997 state run championship, Manaus, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/44https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_039.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_039A group of teenage boys and girls play a "pelada" in the fog covered cobbled streets of Paranapiacaba. It is said that in this small village, British railway workers settled and formed the first football team in Brazil known as "Clube União Lira Serrano" formed by workers from the Sao Paulo Railway Company and local workers, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/45https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_040.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_040Flavia Dias, 38 a Flamengo FC fanatic having a tattoo applied on her breast by artist Gyanni Rocha inside the notoriously dangerous favela known as the "Complexo do Alemao". What is both curious and significant is that it is the Flamngo team flag wrapping around the most hallowed ground in Brazilian footballing history, the iconic Maracana Stadium. Flavia has 33 tattoos around her body, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/46https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_041.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_041 Flavia Dias, 38 a Flamengo FC fanatic having a tattoo applied on her breast by artist Gyanni Rocha inside the notoriously dangerous favela known as the "Complexo do Alemao". What is both curious and significant is that it is the Flamngo team flag wrapping around the most hallowed ground in Brazilian footballing history, the iconic Maracana Stadium. Flavia has 33 tattoos around her body, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/47https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_042.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_042Close to the Maracana stadium police keep close watch on security during the Confederations cup final between Brazil and Spain which the hosts won 3-0, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/48https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_043.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_043Inside the iconic Maracana stadium, Flamengo Football club fans cheer on their team whom are playing their arch rivals Vasco da Gama FC, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/49https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_044.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_044Impssioned fans hug each other during the final of the interstate championships between Botafogo FC and Sao Paulo FC at the iconic Maracana stadium, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/50https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_045.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_045The inaugural international match between Brazil and England sees the reborn and completely refurbished Maracana stadium at a cost of U$S 500 million to the Brazilian taxpayer which caused so much controversy for the preparations of the 2014 WC to be held in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/51https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_046.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_046Fans await the start of play in the inaugural friendly match between Brazil and England, after the closure of the iconic Maracana stadium after a almost full rebuild at a cost of U$S 500 million. The game ended a 2-2 draw and thrilled the 66.000 fans whom attended this historic re opening after its major face lift, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/52https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_047.1.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_047.1Fans await the start of play in the inaugural friendly match between Brazil and England, after the closure of the iconic Maracana stadium after a almost full rebuild at a cost of U$S 500 million. The game ended a 2-2 draw and thrilled the 66.000 fans whom attended this historic re opening after its major face lift, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/53https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_048.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_048At the final of the Confederations cup between Brazil and Spain (3-0) at the iconic and newly rebuilt Maracana, a just married couple bless their union by going to the hallowed grounds of the world's most revered stadium for a photo session, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/54https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_049.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_049Alexandre Helios Motta, 37 one of the most fanatical ardent of Corinthians FC fans. His body is covered in his team's tattoos. For him Corinthians FC is bigger more important then anything else in life. He forms part of one of the hard corp groups of fans known as "Gavioes da Fiel", or Hawks of the Faithful, Sao Paulo, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/55https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_050.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_050Alexandre Helios Motta, 37 one of the most fanatical ardent of Corinthians FC fans. His body is covered in his team's tattoos. For him Corinthians FC is bigger more important then anything else in life. He forms part of one of the hard corp groups of fans known as "Gavioes da Fiel", or Hawks of the Faithful, Sao Paulo, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/56https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_051.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_051Inside Pele's modest and cramped barber's shop, the equally legendary barber Didi has been trimming Pele's hair since the young star's early years at Santos FC, over 45 years. This modest space, oposite Vila Belmiro Santos stadium has an interior redolant with religious idolatry and is a temple to the living legend, Santos, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/57https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_052.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_052A woman walks past a mural close to the legendary Maracana stadium which depicts some of Brazil's most illustrious footballing heroes, past and present such as Zico, Pele and Garrincha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/58https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_053.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_053Brazil's greatest footbaling icons, Pele, Garrincha, Tostao, Jairzinho, Zico, Ronaldo and others dance or levitate eerily like ghosts in the darkened exhibition hall inside the Museum of Football known as the "Baroque Angels", in Sao Paulo's Pacaembu stadium, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/59https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_054.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_054Bar Sao Cristovao, dedicated to the history of (mostly) Brazilian football with photographs, dedications and magazine publications of some of Brazil's biggest past and present stars, Sao Paulo, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/60https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_055.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_055Valtinho "Vascaino" Cabral a Vasco da Gama football club fanatic takes a poolside shower surrounded by the club's coat of arms, flag, dwarfs, dressed in the team's clothes kep him company. Saquarema, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/61https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_056.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_056One of four football pitches inside Marrey prison, a stones through from the international airport in Guarulhos is not only overlooked by the prison guards but also Giselle Bünchen and other models advertising lingerie. The 2400 prisoners spend years inside for crimes of drug trafficking, murder and other violent crime. Football is taken seriously. They have their own competition and if any misdemeanour is carried out they are deprived of the one activity they are all passionate about, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/62https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_057.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_057Inside the Adriano Marrey prison close to Sao Paulo's international airport, this high security penitentiary holds some 2400 inmates, 1100 more then it's official capacity. Prisoners play a football tournament closely watched by guards as well as lingerie models. This forms part of the privileges for good discipline. Those incarcerated are usually for offences related to drug trafficking, murder, and other violent crime. If discipline is not maintained they lose the right to football in the yard, Guarulhos. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/63https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_058.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_058Inside the Adriano Marrey prison close to Sao Paulo's international airport, this high security penitentiary holds some 2400 inmates, 1100 more then it's official capacity. Prisoners play a football tournament closely watched by guards as well as lingerie models. This forms part of the privileges for good discipline. Those incarcerated are usually for offences related to drug trafficking, murder, and other violent crime. If discipline is not maintained they lose the right to football in the yard, Guarulhos. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/64https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_059.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_059Inside Marrey Prison close to Sao Paulo's international airport at Guarulhos, the high security penitentiary hold 2200 inmates, 1000 more then it can officially hold. The prisoners play a football tournament as part of their privileges for good discipline. This high security institution houses mostly drug related criminals and other violent crime, Guarulhos. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/65https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_060.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_060"Button" football being played at a state championship level in Sao Paulo. It appears to have its origins both in Hungry and Brazil. The game is played on a smooth, flat surface with markings per a regulation football field. Typical dimensions of the table would be 1.84 m long by 1.20 m wide, with the field being 1.67 m by 1.04 m. Goals are typically 12.5 cm wide by 5 cm tall per the interior dimensions. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/66https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_061.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_061"Button" football being played at a state championship level in Sao Paulo. It appears to have its origins both in Hungry and Brazil. The game is played on a smooth, flat surface with markings per a regulation football field. Typical dimensions of the table would be 1.84 m long by 1.20 m wide, with the field being 1.67 m by 1.04 m. Goals are typically 12.5 cm wide by 5 cm tall per the interior dimensions. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/67https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_062.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_062A game of ""fute-vollei", volley -football, a Brazilian speciality being played in favela Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro's most densely populated, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/68https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_063.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_063Luan Silva, 16 a Rocinha resident and a passionate football player, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/69https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_064.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_064A cyclist rides by a painted mural depicting Brazil's 1958 World Cup triumph hosted by Sweden showing the winning score line against the teams that took them to the victorious final, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/70https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_065.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_065Playing football on Rio Vermelho beach, Salvador, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/71https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_066.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_066Young children playing football in what is left of an impoverished Cocoa fazenda, a ranch in a poor region of south east Bahia, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/72https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_067.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_067Young boys improvise a "pelada", a kick about inside a Sao Paulo metal and car scrapyard, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/73https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_068.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_068Young men fight for the ball on Vermelha beach, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/74https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20140330_shell_rio_football_favela_0256.jpg20140330_shell_rio_football_favela_0256Young favela girls cheekily cycle onto a pitch inside Favela da Mineira during a kickabout, Rio de Janeiro. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/75https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_070.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_070Yago dos Santos, also known as Senegal, sixteen and from favela a Rocinha is a passionate football player, hopes one day to join one of the big clubs, Rio de Janeiro. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/76https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_071.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_071On Sunday's the state government of Sao Paulo orders the closure of the "Minocao" an elevated section of a major through road in the heart of the megacity that has a shortage of green spaces, thus allowing cycling, jogging even football to be played on its rough surface, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/77https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_072.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_072A group of friends playa a improvised "pelada" on Copacabana beach, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/78https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_073.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_073Alberto de Olivera Junior, otherwise known as "Alemao do Santos" , the German of Santos 55, has Santos FC run deep through his vains as from a very young age he began supporting the team in the days of Pele, Carlos Alberto Torres, Clodoaldo, and other famous footballing icons. He began cleaning the stadium's bathrooms and doing odd jobs there. Not long after he began working in the bars inside the stadium and not long after ran them and took over their ownership over three decades. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/79https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_074.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_074Former military officer Delneri Martina Viana, 68 has been a life long supporter, some would say an irreparable, impassioned fanatic of Rio de Janeiro's Botafogo FC. Since his departure form his military life he began decorating every inch of skin with tattoos related to his love and obsession for "his" team. His house and all possessions are Botafogo related: plates, bed sheets, watches, even the hub caps of car contain the iconic white star of Botafogo. His entire life is about his obsession for the team. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/80https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_075.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_075Watched by mum's and sisters, young boys improvise a game of football through the narrow streets of Jacarezinho a once drug infested violent no go favela which brought death and fear to its residents, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/81https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_076.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_076Cable car takes local residents on a journey above the vast and once very dangerous multiple favela known as "Complexo do Alemao". As they get a birds eye view of a football game in action, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/82https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_077.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_077Young boys play a game of football in the heart of favela Tavares Bastos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/83https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_078.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_078Young male detention centre for under 20 year olds known as "Fundaçao Casa" or Febem, established by the Sao Paulo city government to help young offenders back to society. They are in prison for drug dealing, robbery and other crimes. They mostly come from deprived backgrounds usually from the multiple favelas that surround this megacity. They continue schooling activities and play mostly football whilst in detention, which can be up to a maximum of three years, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/84https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_079.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_079Young male detention centre for under 20 year olds known as "Fundaçao Casa" or Febem, established by the Sao Paulo city government to help young offenders back to society. They are in prison for drug dealing, robbery and other crimes. They mostly come from deprived backgrounds usually from the multiple favelas that surround this megacity. They continue schooling activities and play mostly football whilst in detention, which can be up to a maximum of three years, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/85https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_080.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_080Young male detention centre for under 20 year olds known as "Fundaçao Casa" or Febem, established by the Sao Paulo city government to help young offenders back to society. They are in prison for drug dealing, robbery and other crimes. They mostly come from deprived backgrounds usually from the multiple favelas that surround this megacity. They continue schooling activities and play mostly football whilst in detention, which can be up to a maximum of three years, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/86https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_081.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_081Sao Paulo amateur "Varzea" Championship between Colorado and Santa Cruz FC in Vila Formosa. Fans sing and dance to a Samba beat in support of their team. The amateur "Varzea" championship was born before the professional game took hold throughout Brazil and its roots lie in the city of Sao Paulo, the creator of such a championship, which is fiercely contested by all teams that participate in the competition. It is wholly amateur and is funded and supported by local businesses, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/87https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_082.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_082Sao Paulo amateur "Varzea" Championship between Colorado and Santa Cruz teams in Villa Formosa district, Sao Paulo. The amateur "Varzea"championship was born before the professional game took hold in Brazil and its roots lie in Sao Paulo city, the creator of such an event, which is fiercely contested by all teams that participate in the competition. Before games begins the participating team fan base drum up support with a display of fireworks and an intense and passionate Samba beat. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/88https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_083.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_083Young male detention centre for under 20 year olds known as "Fundaçao Casa" or Febem, established by the Sao Paulo city government to help young offenders back to society. They are in prison for drug dealing, robbery and other crimes. They mostly come from deprived backgrounds usually from the multiple favelas that surround this megacity. They continue schooling activities and play mostly football whilst in detention, which can be up to a maximum of three years, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/89https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_084.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_084On a very late and stormy evening on Ipanema beach a group of friends kick about a ball oblivious to the rain that is about to lash Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/90https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_085.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_085The "Giants of the North" football team. The brain child of its creation was Capacidade a fellow dwarf in 2007. They travel extensively across Brazil playing amateur games against teenage girl and boy teams and occasionally "veteran" male teams. Wherever they travel they always attract much attention and are viewed with affection, warmth, curiosity and respect. Maranhao state, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/91https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_086.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_086The "Giants of the North" football team improvise a game of football amongst themselves in Ponto Franco, Maranhao. The team was formed and was the brain child of Capacidade a fellow dwarf. Wherever they travel they always attract much attention and are viewed with affection and respect, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/92https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_087.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_087Capacidade, (aka Carlos Jose Mendes, 38) is the brain child, founder and captain of the "Giants of the North" football team. Created in 2007 as both a business opportunity as well as bringing together handicapped people and giving them a sense of pride and belonging n life. The "Gigantes do Norte" team as they where christened, spend their time traveling around Brazil being "hired" to play against local teenage and veteran teams, Ponto Franco, Maranhao, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/93https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_088.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_088Casimiro, 26 (aka Wagner Love), one of the star players of the "Giants of the North" team. Has been a member of the team since its birth, Maranhao, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/94https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_089.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_089The "Giants of the North" football team improvise a game of football amongst themselves in Ponto Franco, Maranhao. The team was formed and was the brain child of Capacidade a fellow dwarf. Wherever they travel they always attract much attention and are viewed with affection and respect, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/95https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_090.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_090In the former British railway village of Paranapiacaba, it is said that football was introduced to Brazil by Charles Miller. Here boys play football in the low lying fog that regularly blankets the village, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/96https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_091.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_091Carlos Dantas, 36, and his family walk back to their soon-to be demolishedhome that is to make way for a car park; a painted mural on its outer walldepicts a young boy dressed in the Brazilian national football team jersey crying because of the eviction he and his family will face due to the proximity of his home to the Maracana stadium as it completes its facelift for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Rio de Janeiro. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/97https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_092.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_092Men play volley-football on Flamengo beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/98https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_093.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_093A group of friends play a game of football on Ipanema beach with their girl friends looking on, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/99https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20170101_brazil_rio_1292.jpg20170101_brazil_rio_1292Tourists and locals alike walk along the famous "Calsadaõ", the distinctive wavy sidewalk along Ipanema beach past a Pareo seller, Rio de Janeiro. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/100https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_095.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_095Men play football on Niteroi beach with a view of the Guanabara bay, Christ the Redeemer and the Sugar Loaf mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/101https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_094.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_094Brazilian's are masters at Volley-Football the game they made their own. Here a young man does a bicycle wheel kick to get ball over the net, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-The-Beautiful-Game/102https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_096.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_Football_096A goalpost on Ipanema beach at dawn, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/2pa.jpg2pa https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_001On the one universally free day thousands of Lahorian Cricket fanatics play in teams in the city's bussiest of all parks: Iqbal, Lahore, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_027.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_027On the one universally free day thousands of Lahorian Cricket fanatics play in teams in the city's bussiest of all parks: Iqbal, Lahore, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_026.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_026On the one universally free day thousands of Lahorian Cricket fanatics play in teams in the city's bussiest of all parks: Iqbal, Lahore, Pakistan. Seen here a team calling itself the "Pakistan 11" receive medals from their opposing team fro having one their match. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_025.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_025On the one universally free day thousands of Lahorian Cricket fanatics play in teams in the city's busiest of all parks: Iqbal, Lahore, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_024.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_024MB Cricket bat and ball factory, Sialcot, Pakistan. Seen here polishing hand made balls. This company make the bats for the Pakistan National Cricket team. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_023.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_023MB Cricket bat and ball factory, Sialcot, Pakistan. Seen here stitching hand made balls. This company make the bats for the Pakistan National Cricket team. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_022.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_022MB Cricket bat and ball factory, Sialcot, Pakistan. Seen here placing a label on bats. This company make the bats for the Pakistan National Cricket team. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_021.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_021MB Cricket bat and ball factory, Sialcot, Pakistan. Seen here sanding and shaping bats. This company make the bats for the Pakistan National Cricket team. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_020.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_020MB Cricket bat and ball factory, Sialcot, Pakistan. Seen here sanding and shaping bats. This company make the bats for the Pakistan National Cricket team. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_019.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_019Kids playing Cricket on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_018.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_018Inside a restaurant group of men watch the quarter final match between Pakistan vs West Indies at the 2011 Cricket World Cup where ultimately the former win the match, Lahore, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_017.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_017Amid very tight security the Australian national Cricket team emerge from their bus to enter Premadasa Stadium to play Pakistan in the 2011 World Cricket cup, Colombo, Sri Lanka. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_016.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_016Pakistan National Cricket captain Shahid Afridi together with best friend and team mate Abdul Razzaq and surrounded by other members celebrate their team's win against Zimbabwe during the group stages of 2011 ICC World Cricket Cup. Seen here joking and celebrating a moment of joy late in the evening after having returned from Pallakele Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_015Pakistan National Cricket captain Shahid Afridi together with fellow team mates of the Pakistan 2011 World Cup cricket squad relax shortly before they are to pray on the elevator landing of the Hilton hotel shortly before heading to Premadasa stadium to play against Australia, Colombo, Sri Lanka. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_014_1.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_014_1A Pakistan cricket fan on the streets of Lahore during 2011 ICC World Cup final, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_013Pakistan vs India in the 2011 Cricket World Cup semi final match in Mohali, India. Fans celebrate this rare moment of two giants of the game. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_012.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_012Ecstatic Pakistan fans celebrate a winning ball by their national team inside Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_011Captain Shahid Afridi celebrates a winning wicket during the Pakistan vs Zimbabwe match at the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, Kandy, Sri Lanka. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_010Pakistan National Cricket team captain Shahid Afridi graces billboards and buses all over Pakistan as one of its big Cricket stars for the 2011 ICC World Cricket Cup, Lahore, to be held in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_009Pakistan National Cricket captain Shahid Afridi during a week long training camp period prior to the 2011 ICC World Cricket Cup. Seen here working out with team mates inside the Cricket Academy's gym, Lahore, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_008Pakistan National Cricket team inside Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore during a week long training camp period prior to the 2011 ICC World Cricket Cup in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_007Pakistan National Cricket captain Shahid Afridi in bowling practice during the group stages of the 2011 ICC World Cricket Cup, Colombo, Sri Lanka. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_006Pakistan National Cricket team captain Shahid Afridi in discussion with manager Intikhab Alam inside Gaddafi Stadium, during a week long training camp period prior to the 2011 ICC World Cricket cup in Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_005Kids playing Cricket on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_004On the one universally free day thousands of Lahorian Cricket fanatics play in teams in the city's bussiest of all parks: Iqbal, Lahore, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_003Kids playing Cricket on the streets of Faisalabad, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Pakistan-–-Mad-about-cricket/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Pakistan_002On the one universally free day thousands of Lahorian Cricket fanatics play in teams in the city's bussiest of all parks: Iqbal, Lahore, Pakistan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/2i.jpg2i https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_001Tiwari, 54, also known as Gullu Paanda, a Brahmin priest performs a sacred rite and prayer at the edge of the river Ganges in Varanasi formerly known as Benares, the holiest of spiritual places in India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_002Vinay Kumar Tiwari, a Brahmin priest, in prayer and meditation on the steps of the Ganges river, known as Ghats, seen here in Varanasi's most famous Ghat: Dasashvamedha. This is a daily ritual, particularly auspicious in the two weeks of the new moon and in particular during Diwali. Seen here at night surrounded by candles and offerings to the holy goddess Ganga, Varanasi (Benares), India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_003Rawat Nahar Singhji, 74 and wife Rani Saheb inside the Sheesh Mahal room at their fortress - palace Deogarh Mahal, now converted into a hotel. Rawat, also known as Rao Saheb, is a Umrao of Mewar, an aristocratic nobleman from Rajasthan. A form of a lower ranking Maharaja, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_004Enjoying a genteel cup of tea Rawat Nahar Singhji, 74, wife Rani Saheb and daughters sit in the well kept gardens of their fortress - palace Deogarh Mahal, now converted into a hotel. Rawat, also known as Rao Saheb, is a Umrao of Mewar, an aristocratic nobleman from Rajasthan. A form of a lower ranking Maharaja, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071120_india_0137.jpg20071120_india_0137Young indian dancers practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_005Ganga Thampi, 34 is a classical traditional Indian dancer at the prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai (founded in 1936). Seen here teaching dance movements to her young students in the demanding art of this ancient cultural heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing". The school's history spans over 80 years which maintains its traditions and discipline as it was originally founded. Ganga dances the role of Sita from the revered Ramayana epic, Chennai, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_006Ganga Thampi, 34 is a classical traditional Indian dancer at the prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai (founded in 1936). Seen here walking through the courtyard of the school together with her young students in the demanding art of this ancient cultural heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing". The school's history spans over 80 years maintaining its traditions and discipline as was originally founded. Ganga dances the role of Sita from the revered Ramayana epic, Chennai, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_007Young indian trainee dancers practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school founded in 1936, and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's foremost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_008Ganga Thampi, applies make up before staring in the role of Sita, the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both teacher and one of the stars of the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school of dance, founded in 1936, and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's foremost classical dance academies that is informally known as "temple dancing" dating back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that sets out the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Chennai. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_009A group of Dabbawalas, from a total of about 5000, travel across Mumbai delivering their cargo of freshly prepared food in tin boxes from their client families to other members of the same family working in all types of employment across city, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071121_india_0644.jpg20071121_india_0644Dabbawallahs (tiffinwallah) travel across Mumbai's using its extensive rail network as well as using their own bicycles delivering freshly prepared home cooked food to office workers throughout the city. This 125 year tradition, unique to the city employs 5000 tiffinwallahs delivering an average of 200.000 meals a day which are kept in the tin dabbas which are delivered by using both bicycle and the city's rail network. The dabbawallahs are distinctive by their impeccable white uniform which includes a Gandhi style cap and a service second to none which is the toast and the praise of enterprises such as Forbes magazine and other blue chip companies in terms of service, punctuality and delivery, Mumbai (Bombay), India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_010A group of Dabbawalas, from a total of about 5000, travel across Mumbai delivering their cargo of freshly prepared food in tin boxes from their client families to other members of the same family working in all types of employment across city, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_011An elephant and his mahouts (elephant handlers) arrive for the month long animal fair at Sonepur, Bihar on the banks of Gandak river, a tributary of the Ganges. This is considered one of the largest animal selling fairs in India, near Patna, Bihar province. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_015Elephants and pilgrims share the Gandak river banks to bathe and drink water during the month long Sonepur animal fair close to Patna, Bihar province. The most auspicious day to share this same space is during the day following the full moon give that elephants are revered animals and respected like gods, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071124_india_0528.jpg20071124_india_0528 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_013A man has his pipe lit by another at the annual Sonepur animal fair, Bihar province, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071124_india_0536.jpg20071124_india_0536 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_012.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_012An elephant and his mahouts (elephant handlers) arrive for the month long animal fair at Sonepur, Bihar on the banks of Gandak river, a tributary of the Ganges. This is considered one of the largest animal selling fairs in India, near Patna, Bihar province. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_016.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_016A pilgrim serenely grooms his long beared at the Sonepur animal fair, Bihar, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_017.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_017Pilgrims at the Sonepur animal fair, Bihar, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071126_india_0089.jpg20071126_india_0089A young Indian bride lies on her bed as she has henna decorated onto her arm and palm by a local artist, as she begins preparations for her wedding ceremony, Jaipur, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071127_india_0065.jpg20071127_india_0065Shweta Singhal begins the preparations and rituals of her three day wedding ceremony in her home in Jaipur, here her forehead is being marked with sandlewood, after it has been smeared in saffron, dried tumeric, and vermillion, her faced is bathed in buttermilk by her family, Rajasthan, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_018.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_018The climax of a Hindu wedding. Shweta Singhal, sits on her father's lap whilst a priest together with the bride's mother and closest family members look on as the groom Rohit, places around his newly wed wife a necklace with a gold locket, which is sign of a married women. The guests sprinkle the newly weds in a shower of pink rose petals, Neemrana Fort, Palace, Rajasthan, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_019.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_019A hand having Henna applied. The circular dots represents the body's chakras, Chennai, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_020.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_020A groom dressed in turban and festooned in a large garland of flowers is surrounded by women from his village as he sits patiently for the wedding ceremony to begin, Salawas, Rajasthan, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_021.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_021Women Dhurrie weavers momentarily resting, Rajasthan, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_022.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_022A women does the house work, collecting water and dung, sweeping the backyard of her employer's home in Salawas village, rural Rajasthan, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071203_india_0211.jpg20071203_india_0211Farmers on small islands in the Sunderbans delta, West Bengal, harvest rice, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071203_india_0329.jpg20071203_india_0329Monindro Mondol sits in the front yard of his village home repairing his fishing nets in the Sundrbans delta, West Bengal, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_023.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_023Mangrove fishermen at work in West Bengal's Sunderbans, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071209_india_0173.jpg20071209_india_0173Atta Yadd, an Apatani tribal elder women stands to attention at the entrance of her bamboo hut raised on stilts in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes who settled on the Ziro plateau, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071208_india_0034.jpg20071208_india_0034Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd and her husband Ba Khang wake up in the early morning, freshen up on the raised bamboo platform of their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the centre close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_025.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_025Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd, her husband Ba Khang and daughter sit around the one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut. They sit and sleep on mats in the centre close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_026.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_026Boy runs down a misty village path in Arunachal Pradesh, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071209_india_0144.jpg20071209_india_0144Apatani tribal elder Atta Yadd and her young neighbours sit have tea and warm up beside the fire after a hard day's work in rice and bamboo fields. They sleep and live in their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071207_india_0353.jpg20071207_india_0353A group of Apatani tribal women after having re-contoured the bare rice fields return to their village to prepare dinner. Most villagers own small plots of land which are mainly used for rice growing and usually friends and neighbours help one another plough and till the land for the coming growing season. Hijja Village, Arunachal Pradesh, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_027.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_027Darjeeling Himalayan railway driver Birkh Dattani talks to a colleague with Victor the Scottish built steam engine which travels between Siliguri and Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_028.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_028Victor, the Queen of the Himalayas steam train travels the daily route between Darjeeling and Siliguri towns on the Darjeeling Himalayan railway line, classed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_029.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_029Driver inspecting the oil levels on Victor, the Queen of the Himalayas steam train that travels the daily route between Darjeeling and Siliguri towns on the Darjeeling Himalayan railway line, classed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/41https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_030.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_030Passengers on the Queen of the Himalayas steam train travels the daily route between Darjeeling and Siliguri towns on the Darjeeling Himalayan railway line, classed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/42https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_031.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_031Train tickets for the Darjeeling Himalayan railway line that travels the daily route between Darjeeling and Siliguri towns on the Darjeeling Himalayan railway line, classed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/43https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_032.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_032At Kurseong railway station the old ticket printing press still operates to capacity. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, nicknamed the "Toy Train", is a narrow-gauge steam railway from Siliguri to Darjeeling in West Bengal. It was built between 1879 and 1881 and is about 86 km long. The elevation level is from about 100 m at Siliguri to about 2200 m at Darjeeling. It is now classed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/44https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_033.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_033At Kurseong railway station the old ticket printing press still operates to capacity. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, nicknamed the "Toy Train", is a narrow-gauge steam railway from Siliguri to Darjeeling in West Bengal. It was built between 1879 and 1881 and is about 86 km long. The elevation level is from about 100 m at Siliguri to about 2200 m at Darjeeling. It is now classed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/45https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_034.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_034A patient lies near fully submerged in a wooden tub of herb infused water to promote relaxation during the process of detoxification as part of the Ayurvedic treatment process. Ayurveda is considered a holistic Indian medicine dating back to ancient times and as explained in Sanskrit: ayu, means "life" and veda, means "knowledge", Kerala, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/46https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_035.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_035Kalari payattu (Ayurvedic) practice inside a medical pit, Kerala, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/47https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_036.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_036Ayurvedic practice using oil poultice at a treatment centre in Kerala, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/48https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_037.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_037Gurdayal Singh, prays on the edge of the Amritsagar, Pool of Nectar, Sikhism's holiest places surrounding the Golden Temple, Amritsar, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/49https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_038.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_038Sikh devotees visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar to pay their respects to their God, this being the holiest place in Sikhism as well as one of the oldest gudwaras, Punjab, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/50https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_039.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_039A Sikh pilgrim sits in silence and reflection at the edge of the Amritsagar, the pond that surrounds the Golden Temple, Sikhisms holiest of "Gudwaras", Amritsar, Punjab, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/51https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_040.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_040A Sikh devotee in prayer and meditation at Amritsar's Golden Temple, Sikhisms holiest of places, Amritsar, Punjab, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/52https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_041.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_041Gurdayal Singh, head cook of the Golden Temple at Amritsar preparing large quantities of food for the 70.000 pilgrims that Sikhism holiest of places receives daily, Amritsar, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/53https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_042.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_042Sikh men eat evening meal on the floor of the Golden Temple's Langar, Amritsar, Punjab, India https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/54https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_043.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_043Children run through mustard fields, Chita Kalaan, Punjab, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/55https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_044.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_044A village elder sits in his family's internal courtyard shortly after waking in their rural home in Chita Kalaan village, Punjab, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/56https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071221_india_0524.jpg20071221_india_0524 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/57https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_045.1.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_045.1Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This unit is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, Delhi, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/58https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_046.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_046In the shadow of the Jaipur column the PBG, Presidential Body Guard military unit conduct the changing of the guard at the Presidential palace. The PBG is India's preeminent unit founded in 1773, and is now principally used for ceremonial occasions, Delhi, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/59https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20071224_india_0144.jpg20071224_india_0144Lance daffadar Girdhari Lal togehter with regiment colleagues on horse back training at the base of the Presidential Bodyguards' barracks, New Delhi - the preeminant military unit of the Indian army. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/60https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_047.jpgHorse training in New Delhi, 2008Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This unit is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, Delhi, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/61https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_048.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_048Officers and non commissioned officers of the PBG, Presidential Body Guard salute their commander-in-chief at the PBG's HQ, Delhi, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/62https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_049.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_049Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This unit is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, Delhi, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/63https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_050.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_050Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This unit is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, Delhi, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India-–-A-day-in-the-life/64https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_051.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_India_051Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This unit is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, Delhi, India. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/2c.jpg2c https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_002Shengwu Round dwellings with interior circular courtyard and living spaces with central a water well for residents and livestock alike, Jiaolu, Fujian, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_001.jpgFront door to traditional round house / dwelling, ChinaFront door to a Shengwu Round house in the village of Jiaolu, Fujian, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_003.jpgPhotographs and towels in traditional round house /dwelling interior, ChinaFamily photographs decorate an interior of a Round House dwelling, Jialou village, Fujian, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_004.jpgTraditional round house/ dwelling, ChinaShengwu Round dwellings with interior circular courtyard and living spaces with central a water well for residents and livestock alike, Jiaolu, Fujian, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_005.jpgThe Cave Dwellers of Shaanxi ProvinceFarmer Chang Han Lin has a mid morning break from work in Chang Qu village. He sits inside his Cave house, cut out of the fertile Loess soil 80 years ago, Shaanxi, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_006Shengwu Lou round earth dwelling in the village of Jiaolu, Fujian province. View of interior of the home of Li Zheng Ying and children. Visible Kitchen, living room / eating room. These are some of the most extraordinary multistorey structures in China built exclusively out of earth and timber, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_007.1.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_007.1Mrs Xia Wer Qin, 74 retired teacher practices Tai Chi in front of the Bund, with the Shanghai district of Pudong in the background, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_008.jpga young girl at a primary school lessonChen Xiao Sa, 8 years old studying in her primary school, Dong Da Jian village, Shaanxi Province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_009.jpgFamily having lunch in Chinese villageChen Xiao Sa, 8 years old child of migrant worker parents, having lunch with grandparents in Dong Da Jian village, Shaanxi Province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_010School child, Chen Xiao Sa wakes up at 07.00hrs to go to school, in the village of Dong Da Jian village, Shaanxi Province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_011Inside a traditional Beijing courtyard house, opera singer Chen Yun Jiang's original travelling trunks which would contain his costumes when performing across China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_012.jpgTraditional room in old courtyard houseInside Mr Chen Yun Jianga's living room - office, in a traditional Beijing Courtyard house, which are gradually becoming relics of a historical past as China embraces modernity. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_013Still life of brushes, paints, inks, and signature stamps in Calligrapher's Beijing studio, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_014.jpgCalligrapher at work in studioLiu Mu making Calligraphic art in his Beijing studio, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_015.jpgCalligrapher completing a work on paper.Liu Mu, 60 painting calligraphic art and signing off in his Beijing studio, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_016.jpgCalligrapher at work in studio.Once completed calligrapher Liu Mu signs off his art pieces with his signature stamps in Beijing studio, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_017.jpgTea picking in morning mistBao Ahua picks tea in the morning mist on the slopes outside her village of Zha Lu, Yunnan province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_018.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_018Luo Ming Wei, in the Pu'er tea factory he co-owns with two brothers assessing the quality of the tea that they are packaging to ensure the right consistency, fragrance and maturity, Yi Wu village, Yunnan Province, close to the Laos and Myanmar border, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_019.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_019Bao Ahua picks tea on the slopes outside her village of Zha Lu, Yunnan province https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_020.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_020A herbal doctor, cups his hands with cicada skins used together with other herbs, barks, flowers leaves, roots, etc. in the healing process used in Chinese Medicine, Yunnan province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_021.jpgChinese herbalist / doctor weighs herbal mixture Chen Yi He. 60, Chinese Herbalist, weighing remedies at his clinic in Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_022.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_022Patient Wang Yong Kuan undergoing a Cupping and Acupuncture session in a Chinese medicine clinic, Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_023.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_023Letting off thunderous fireworks during the Buddha procession of the Haka Festival, which is called in Chinese "Miao Hui" takes place only once every eight years, Que Ken Ba Village, Fujian province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_024.jpgA Buddha being paraded through a Chinese vilage celebration Letting off thunderous fireworks during the Buddha procession of the Haka Festival, which is called in Chinese "Miao Hui" takes place only once every eight years, Que Ken Ba Village, Fujian province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_025.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_025Wu Jian Xin with villagers in a private home discuss the order of events over the three day Hakka festivities, during the Buddhist religious festival. Taking tea and smoking, a favourite pastime, Fujian province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_026.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_026Still life of traditional Chinese musical instruments during the Haka Festival, Fujian Province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_027.jpgElder man writing on a village notice board paperWu Jian Xin, 37 together with village elders add up what members of the community contributed to pay for the cost of putting on the Haka festival, a Buddhist once yearly celebration, Fujian province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_028.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_028Zhang Lin, 23 leading Yue opera performer from the Xiao Bai Hua Shaoxing Opera Troupe putting on her make-up before a performance in a rural village close to Shaoxing City, Zhe Jiang province, China. She is one of the leading lights of Yue opera. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_029.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_029Zhang Li, 23 leading opera performer from the Xiao Bai Hua Shaoxing Opera Troupe putting on the final touches to her make -up before a performance in a village close to Shaoxing City, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_030.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_030A Yue Opera's village audience close to Shaoxing city, ZheJiang province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_031.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_031Ababakri Selay, 80 is a Uighur of Turkic origin, he has been making over 40 varieties of traditional instruments in his workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of his own creation for five generations, Kashgar city, China https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_032.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_032Ababekry Selay with son and employee playing traditional Uigar music in their shop in Kashgar city. The principal maker of instruments in the city over five generations, Xianjiang, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_033.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_033Ababekry Selay, 80 and son, Muhammad Turson, 40 make a large variety of instruments in ther workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek. Five generations have been involved in traditional instrument making. They are the principal instrument makers in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_034.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_034Mu Ze Latso visits a village neighbour on Lugu Lake, Yunnan province. Mo Suo people belong to the NaXi minority. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly the do not have a marriage system, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_035.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_035Mu Ze Latso laughs uncontrollably with her mother Muze Namu at home close to Lugu Lake, Yunnan province. Mo Suo people belong to the NaXi minority. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly the do not have a marriage system, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_036.jpgYoung women in traditional Mo Su clothing leaves home, Yunnan, ChinaMu Ze Latso leaves home to go to the market town of Yongning.Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest Yunnan province. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage system, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_037.jpgTwo young Mo Su ethnic minority women having noodle lunchMu Ze Latso with friend having a light noodle snack in Yongning town, northwest Yunnan province. Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest Yunnan province. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage system, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_038.jpgThe Cave Dwellers of Shaanxi ProvinceThe cave house of farmer Chang Han Lin's family in the village of Chang Qu in northern Shaanxi province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_039.jpgThe Cave Dwellers of Shaanxi ProvinceFarmer Chang Han Lin goes out to collect his sunflower crop from near by fields. Chang Qu village, Shaanxi province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/41https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_040.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_040Poster calendar inside a cave dwelling house, Shaanxi province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/42https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_041.jpgThe Cave Dwellers of Shaanxi ProvinceFarmer Chang Han Lin has a mid morning break from work in Chang Qu village. He sits inside his Cave house, Shaanxi Province, China . https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/43https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_042.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_042Li Qing He, boyfriend and mother-in-law have a noodle breakfast, Suzhou city, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/44https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_043.jpgTwo men play Chinese chessFishermen on Jin Shan Island play Chinese Chess, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/45https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_044.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_044Villagers repair nets for the large fishing fleet in the harbour of Jin Shan Island, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/46https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_045.jpgTibetan buddihist monk walks through monastery Buddhist Monks walking from one temple to another in the early morning after a light dusting of snow, A Cuo Monastery, Xinghai, Qinghai Province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/47https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_046.jpgTibetan monk watches dvd.Dong Zhu, 29 year old Tibetan monk watching TV in his room in A Cuo Monastery, Qinghai Province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China-–-A-day-in-the-life/48https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_047.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_China_047Tibetan buddhist monk Dongyu, walks through the grounds of 300 years old Atsog Monastery, Xinghai County, Qinghai Province, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Bolivia_Bach_in_the_bush_2004.pngTEXT_Bolivia_Bach_in_the_bush_2004 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_001.jpgMusicians from UrubichaThe Aguape brothers: Dionicio (20), Simon (15), and Juan Carlos (23) rehearsing outside their home. They are amongst the most talented family of musicians of the village. They play Vivaldi, Telermann, Bach, Beethoven, Hayden, and other great composers, Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_002.jpgMusicians from UrubichaSimon Aguape rehearsing Telermann at home after dark. He say of classical music on playing it "I hear something beautiful in my soul", Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_003.jpgMusicians from UrubichaFroilan Yecocari (9), has being learning the cello for only 6 months. Began playing because he admired the older players of the Orchestra. He likes the instrument because he like what it "says". Would like to grow up as a music teacher, Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_004.jpgMusicians from UrubichaThe Guarayo village of Urubicha is a dusty village founded in 1862 by Franciscan monks, population: approx 5000, it lies 340Km north of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Until 1979 had no proper road linking it to the outside world, just a track, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_005.jpgMusicians from UrubichaEduardo Oreyai (23) is a third generation violin / cello maker of Urubicha. Each instrument takes him one month to make, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_006.jpgMusicians from UrubichaSimon (15), and Dionicio (20) Aguape rehearsing Verdi's William Tell inside their straw and mud brick house. Simon practices 4 hours / day and has great ambitions as a musician, Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_007.jpgMusicians from UrubichaErberti Oreyai (14). Plays Violin at home with his family watching on. He was a student at the music school for three years but was forced to quit because his family could not afford to buy the violin cords when they broke. They, like everybody in the village are peasant farmers. The cords cost US$ 1.50 ea. Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_008.jpgMusicians from UrubichaGerman Yeguaori (27), has played the Harp for 4 years prior to which played the violin for 12 years. He says of playing "it provokes happiness in me". Would like to continue composing traditional music one day, Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_009-2.jpgMusicians from UrubichaYenlin Yeguoari (15), has being playing the Oboe for one year likes it sound "like speaking through the nose, I feel happiness in my body". Would like to be a music teacher in Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_010-2.jpgMusicians from UrubichaEliana Aguararupa (14), Cello player for 1 year. When she plays she says "I see trees, I feel happy". Would like to be a teacher in a large city, Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_011.jpgMusicians from UrubichaDelmar Zepitiuri (18), plays Trombone for one year, likes its sound, form and shinny look". He's happy and relaxed and family proud of him. Would like to continue playing in the orchestra, Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_012.jpgMusicians from UrubichaUrubicha's music school, officially known as Instituto de Formación Integral, under the executive direction of Rubén Darío Suarez Arana, who created and set the project in motion from 1996 in a music lesson, Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_013.jpgMusicians from UrubichaYoung boys practicing their instruments on the streets and in the backyards of their homes in Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_014.jpgMusicians from UrubichaRubén Darío Suarez Arana conducts a rehearsal of Urubich's Orchestra on the streets of the village, Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_015.jpgMusicians from UrubichaRubén Darío Suarez Arana, the Executive Director, conductor and creator of the project which restored music to Urubicha and several other Jesuit villages. Seen here with his Orchestra and Choir from the village in the magnificent Cathedral of Concepcion. He founded the project as a formal institution in 1996 after the first international festival of Classical and Baroque music in Chiquitania, Concepción, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_016.jpgMusicians from UrubichaDionicio(20), Simon (15) and Juan Carlos(23) Aguape are the most talented family group of musicians in the village. Dionicio, played his cello in a private audience to Pope John Paul II in the Vatican in 2003. Simon took up the violin 5 years ago, practices 4 hours /day, previously he played the trumpet and French Horn, self taught on classical guitar, Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_017.jpgMusicians from UrubichaRuthy Yarita (16), Transversal Flute for 11/2 years likes its sweet sound and therefore to wishes to play in the orchestra and at church, Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bolivia-–-Bach-in-the-bush/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_018.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Bolivia_Music_018The shadow of a violinist on a mud splattered wall in Urubicha, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Spain_Fishing_1995.pngTEXT_Spain_Fishing_1995 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_001Spanish fishermen on "My Friend" working under Gale force 9 conditions between Great Sole bank and Eastner, North Sea. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_002Alfonso Carrazelas on Spanish fishing trawler "My Friend" removing a bolt from the net which secures it to a jute cable that goes into the sea, North Sea. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_003Spanish fishermen on "My Friend" working under Gale force 9 conditions between Great Sole bank and Eastner, North Sea. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_004Spanish fishermen Paco Vidal and Valentin Capa light up cigarettes whilst attending to a new catch of fish, North Sea. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_005Fishermen bring in the net and catch aboard Spanish fishing trawler 'My Friend', North Sea. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_006Galician fishermen on trawler "My Friend" smoke and relax below deck in between catches and being above deck, North Sea. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_007Jose Pedreira repairing a damaged net on deck Spanish fishing trawler, North Sea. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_008Jose Pedreira repairing a damaged net on deck Spanish fishing trawler, North Sea. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_009Galician fishermen unload a catch of Horse Mackrel at dawn, Malpica, Spain. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_010Galician fishermen unload a catch of Horse Mackrel at dawn, Malpica, Spain. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_011Juan Patiño, fishing for the highly valued "Percebes" or Goose Barnacles off the Galician coast, Spain. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_012.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_012Escuris Fish processing factory where women are seen cleaning cooked Tuna fish before they are tinned, Galicia, Spain. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_013Some 400 women collect mussels in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_014.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_014Some 400 women collect mussels in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Spain---The-slaves-of-the-sea/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Spain_015Escuris Fish processing factory where women are seen cleaning cooked Tuna fish before they are tinned, Galicia, Spain. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_South_America_Pain_and_hope_2001.pngTEXT_South_America_Pain_and_hope_2001 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_001On the Colombian / Ecuadorian border, the sleepy village of Palma Real where many people work the Mangrove plantations is marked by the Ecuadorian flag. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_002Traveling high up in the Andean mountain range I pass a horseman heading to his village between Angamarca and Simiantug, Ecuador. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_003A piglet, bought in the village market of Simiantug is loaded onto the roof of a local bus service that travel the rough Andean village routes connecting these small communities, Ecuador. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10156856.jpgCPA-10156856Young Pasadelo children tend to their sheep high up on the slopes of the Andes mountain range near Angamarca, Ecuador. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_004Bullfighting is still a very popular sport and spectacle amongst the upper class Quito residents. Seen here, fighters that have flown in from Spain to continue their traditions, Ecuador. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_005Bullfighting is still a very popular sport and spectacle amongst the upper class Quito residents. Seen here, fighters that have flown in from Spain to continue their traditions in a packed arena, Ecuador. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_006In the hot and humid Mangrove swamps in the village of Palma Real, local residents eek out a living from mussel collecting and small scale fishing, which are the principal motors of the local economy, even if its reward is a meagre U$S 2 / day, Ecuador. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_007High up the Andes mountain range a small and empty road side cafe greets the traveler with little more then a few drinks, Celenin, Perú. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_008Vicente Alejandra (L), a witchdoctor known as a Curandero, sprays a patient with a special home made potion to cure a dietary ailment, surrounded by the accoutrements of his trade, including skulls, special rocks and stones, Perú. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_009.jpgBus stop in the desert, Peru, 2000A remote and lonely bus stop across the Bayovar desert. A landscape filled with phosphate and minerals, Perú. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_010A lonely customer in a bar reminiscent of an Edward Hopper painting in Leticia, the triple border town straddling, Columbia, Brazil and Peru. In former times it was a major smuggling route across very porous borders, now in terminal decay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_011In the Peruvian village of Remoyacu women of the Amazonian Matses tribe decorate their faces by painting them and placing straw into their noses. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_012.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_012Traveling along the Panamerican Highway through the Bayovar desert, I cross the minute, wind swept village of "Mala Vida", Miserable life, Peru. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_014.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_014Aymara Indian village leaders gather from communities across the Altiplano to discuss matters relating to their villages, Caquiaviri, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_013A Christian re-enactment of the birth of Jesus Christ during the Christmas festivities in Iquitos town, Peru. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10071116.jpgCPA-10071116In the mining town of Llallagua, the infamous Siglo XX Tin mine employed most of the menfolk of the town. The dangers of working down the mine and it's insalubrious conditions created an environment of elevated deaths amongst the working population and infants, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_015Militant graffiti adorn the walls close to the Tin mine of Siglo XX, Llallagua, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10126286.jpgCPA-10126286In the mining town of Llallagua, the infamous Siglo XX Tin mine employed most of the menfolk of the town. The dangers of working down the mine and it's insalubrious conditions created an environment of elevated deaths amongst its workers and its infant population due to poverty, malnutrition, poor sanitary conditions and housing, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_016.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_016Miners from Siglo XX Tin mine exit the cavernous depths of the mine in which they work in poor conditions for a meagre $3 a day, Llallagua, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_017.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_017A bus travels along the treacherous dirt route, known as "the road of death" between Coroico and La Paz, where many fatal accidents of cars, buses and trucks have occurred by falling off the edge of the narrow unprotected road, Bolivia https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_018.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_018Two old Aymara Indian women lunch in a restaurant in Llalagua, Bolivia. Behind them is a poster of an idyllic Tahitian scene, which couldn't be a more remote metaphor for their existence, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10126300.jpgCPA-10126300Mining wives from Siglo XX Tin mining community in Llallagua travel to the Bolivian capital, La Paz to demand better working conditions for their husbands in a notoriously dangerous profession with a high fatality rate. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10156966.jpgCPA-10156966On the road between Coroico and La Paz in the Bolivian Altiplano. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_019.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_019The Illimani volcano towers above La Paz city, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10156975.jpgCPA-10156975The once a year Oruro carnival is a colourful fusion of European an Andean music, dance and culture where the participants wind their way around the city centre, Oruro, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_020.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_020The once a year Oruro carnival is a colourful fusion of European an Andean music, dance and culture where the participants wind their way around the city centre, Oruro, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10156977.jpgCPA-10156977The once a year Oruro carnival is a colourful fusion of European an Andean music, dance and culture where the participants wind their way around the city centre, Oruro, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_021.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_021The bizarre religious sect known as " The Israelites" welcome the faithful during mass.They practice animal sacrifice as part of their rituals, Altiplano, Bolivia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_022.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_022A road side eatery on the way to the Mennonite community of Rio Verde, Paraguay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_023.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_023Johann and Eva Unger belong to the Mennonites community of Rio Verde. Here in their buggy on their way to visit relatives, Paraguay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_024.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_024Farm workers return to their homes in the Mennonite community of Rio Verde, Paraguay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_025.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_025The shy family of Abraham and Elizabeth Friesen and children sit on their front porch of home in the Mennonite community of Rio Verde, Paraguay https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_026.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_026Locals drink in the Cantina Supernova, Creel, Mexico. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_027.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_027Dust is wiped up close to the railway tracks of the train that links Chihuahua al Pacífico, Creel, Mexico. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_028.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_028Train passengers wait for the Chihuahua al Pacífico train, San Juanito, Mexico. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_033.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_033Young boys in a music rehearsal utilise recycled tin drums of oil, paint and other such materials to create musical drums as part of a social rehab programme known as "Bagunçao", to get children off the the streets and drug use and trafficking, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_034.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_034A solitary cross on Uruguayan ranch. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_035.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_035Somisa Steel plant, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/8D9A1661.jpg8D9A1661Diego Maradona's childhood home in the impoverished neighbourhood of Fiorito, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/41https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20161123_arg_cba_0031.jpg20161123_arg_cba_0031An improvised goal post on a rural football pitch covered on wild overgrown farm land. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/42https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_037.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_037Tango dancers and an accordionist in Café Homero, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/43https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_038.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_038A sculptured hand reaches out to children on Brava beach, Punta del Este, Uruguay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Latin-America-–-Pain-and-Hope/44https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_039.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Latin_America_RM_039The sun sets over Cabo Polonio, an alternative beach side community, Uruguay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Cuba_1999.pngTEXT_Cuba_1999 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_001"Guajiros", farm workers herding cattle along the road to Trinidad, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10143617.jpgCPA-10143617Villagers on the streets of Trinidad, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_003Tropical storm gathers strength over Trinidad town, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_004Trinidad town, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_005A group of traditional musicians playing "Son", a precursor to Salsa, Trinidad, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_006Old American "gas guzzlers" on the streets of Trinidad, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Cuba_.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Cuba_Couples enjoy an afternoon dance on a roof top of a Santiago building at dusk, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_007Old American "gas guzzlers" on the streets of Trinidad, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_008Old American "gas guzzlers" on the streets of Trinidad, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10143660.jpgCPA-10143660"Los Hoyos" dance school rehearsing on the streets of Santiago city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_009Children from broken families rehearse at the grand, yet faded "Casa del Estudiante", Santiago, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_010"Clave de Son" band playing traditional Cuban music in small bar, Santiago, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebssite_2018_Cuba_017.jpgNewWebssite_2018_Cuba_017A Cuban dance and music parade which fuses Latin and Caribbean sounds and traditions, Santiago de Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_011Eccentric street musician Billy Benny shows off his latest tricks to children on the streets of Santiago, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10143659.jpgCPA-10143659The closing carnival parade fusing Caribbean and Latin American culture on the streets of Santiago, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10143646.jpgCPA-10143646"Los Hoyos" dance school rehearsing on the streets of Santiago city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Cuba_RM_013A young girl prepares to celebrates her 15th birthday, an important Latin American tradition, in her home with a portrait of one of the architects of the Cuban revolution, Camilo Cienfuegos, Santiago, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20080428_cuba_dv_0092.jpgDanza VoluminosaRubi Amaro a member of the dance group Danza Voluminosa stricking a pose in front of a mirror in her family's home in central Havana. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Cuba-–-a-road-trip/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20080429_cuba_dv_0026.jpg20080429_cuba_dv_0026Maylin Daza at home grooming her nails as her nephew looks on in their shared home, Havana, Cuba. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Argentina_Mille_Miglia_1997.pngTEXT_Argentina_Mille_Miglia_1997 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_001A hybrid 1921 Studebaker travels towards Lake Traful, as part of the Mille Miglia classic car rally, Patagonia, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_002-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_002-2Gerrado Bianchi and Vlado Vukojicic with their 1921 Studebaker , before the start of the Mille Miglia classic car rally, Bariloche, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_003A 1928 Bugatti T35 driven by Prins/ Zweeger across the Chilean border to Termas de Puyeyue in the Mille Miglia classic car rally, Patagonia, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_004A classic Bugatti racing car takes part in the famous Mille Miglia (1000 mile) classic rally in Patagonia, Argentina. This event takes it's name from the famous race that is still conducted in Italy, but now known as the Mille Miglia Storica after the race was band after several fatalities in 1957. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_005-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_005-2Luigi Prins and Peter Zweegers with their 1928 Bugatti T35 , before the start of the Mille Miglia classic car rally, Bariloche, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_006The Mille Miglia classic car rally where a Om and Bugatti battle for a position in rainy conditions, Patagonia, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_007-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_007-2Peter Godehardt and Gunter Weigland with their 1928 Bentley "Le Mans" 4.5 , before the start of the Mille Miglia classic car rally, Bariloche, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_008A 1939 Alfa Romeo 2500cc, in the Mille Miglia classic car rally across Patagonia, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_009-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_009-2Gerrado Bianchi and Vlado Vukojicic with their 1921 Studebaker , before the start of the Mille Miglia classic car rally, Bariloche, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_010A classic car drives through a Patagonian landscape during the Mille Miglia car rally, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_011-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_011-2Jorge Ferioli and Miguel Lamas with their 1921 Studebaker Baquet 6.600CC, before the start of the Mille Miglia classic car rally, Bariloche, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_012.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_012Participants in the Mille Miglia classic car rally driving through a muddy Patagonian road, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_013A 1939 Alfar Romeo 2500cc follows other participants of the Mille Miglia classic car rally, Patagonia, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina-–-The-Mille-Miglia-car-rally/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_014.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_MilleMiglia_014A 1958 Porsche Speedster thunders through a rainy and muddy Patagonian landscape as part of the Mille Miglia car rally, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/2v.jpg2v https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_001The eternal symbol of faith, a peaceful St. Peter's Square and The Vatican at dawn, before the arrival of pilgrims, the faithful and the world's tourism, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_002Pope Benedict XVI, addresses the faithful from his study window of the Apostolic Palace, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_003Shafts of sunlight bathe the faithful through Michelangelo's dome inside St. Peter's Basilica, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_004Pope Benedict XVI travels in the "popemobile" during the Wednesday audience in St. Peter's Square greeting the thousands of pilgrims that travel from all over the world be blessed by his presence, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_005Inside the Vatican gardens, at Lourdes Grotto a nun takes a picture of Pope Benedict XVI during a mass he's conducting open air mass to venerate the Blessed Virgin Mary, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_006Inside the Vatican gardens at the Lourdes Grotto Pope Benedict XVI conducts an open air mass to venerate the Blessed Virgin Mary to assembled cardinals, pilgrims and the faithful, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_007Pope Benedict XVI enters St. Paul outside the wall Basilica to celebrate Vespers mass, Rome, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_008Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Vespers mass in the presence of a packed congregation of the faithful inside St. Paul outside the Wall Basilica, Rome, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_009Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Vespers mass in the presence of a packed congregation of the faithful inside St. Paul outside the Wall Basilica, Rome, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_010Pope Benedict XVI leaves St. Paul outside the Wall Basilica after having conducted Vespers mass in the presence of a packed congregation of the faithful inside, Rome, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_011The Vatican's Swiss Guard, march along the Wing of the Maderno to enter St. Peter's Basilica, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_012.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_012Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul under the Basilica's central dome created by Michelangelo, in the presence of the Catholic Church's senior Cardinals and a full congregation, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_013The Swiss Guard on duty at the entrance to the Apostolic Palace, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_014.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_014St Peter's Square as seen from the dome of St Peter's Basilica, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_015The Sala Ducale, the magnificent and rarely seen reception room of the Renaissance popes, where important dignitaries, princes, and VIP's where welcomed inside the Vatican walls, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_016.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_016The Bernini canopy, built in 1656 and made of Stucco and putti drapes, disguised the enlargement of the Sala Ducale to receive foreign dignitaries, head's of state and princes by the popes of the time, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_017.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_017In the Vatican's Mosaic studio, craftsmen and women restore and rebuild all manner of mosaic objects from inside the Vatican's vast treasure of antiquities. Seen here a restorer working on Mexico's Our Lady of Guadalupe, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_018.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_018In the Vatican's Mosaic studio, craftsmen and women restore and rebuild all manner of mosaic objects from inside the Vatican's vast treasure of antiquities. Seen here a restorer working on a wall linked to Michelangelo's central dome in St. Peter's Basilica, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_019.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_019Choristers of the papal Sistine Chapel Choir perform Gregorian chants during the Vespers mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_020.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_020The entrance procession of Pope Benedict XVI accompanied by two cardinals during the Vespers mass in St. Peter's Basilica, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_021.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_021Leonardo Marra, the Treasury Curator, examines the many vestments stored inside the Papal Sacristy used by popes over the ages. The Papal Sacristy, sits directly behind the Sistine Chapel and houses the most treasured and priceless of Papal liturgical heritage, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_022.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_022Leonardo Marra, the Treasury Curator, examines the many vestments, Mitres and stoles stored inside the Papal Sacristy used by popes over the ages. The Papal Sacristy, sits directly behind the Sistine Chapel and houses the most treasured and priceless of Papal liturgical heritage, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_023.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_023Leonardo Marra, the Treasury Curator, examines the many Tiaras and Mitres, stored inside the Papal Sacristy used by popes over the ages. The Papal Sacristy, sits directly behind the Sistine Chapel and houses the most treasured and priceless of Papal liturgical heritage collected over the centuries, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_024.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_024Leonardo Marra, the Treasury Curator, catalogues the many Chalices and other ceremonial crosses, cruets and candle holders stored inside the Papal Sacristy used by popes over the ages. The Papal Sacristy, sits directly behind the Sistine Chapel and houses the most treasured and priceless of Papal liturgical heritage collected over the centuries, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_025.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_025Leonardo Marra, the Treasury Curator, walks through the Sala Ducale accompanied by three Augustinian friars whom look after the more regularly used liturgical items within the Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_026.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_026Archival records by the Treasury Curator inside the Papal Sacristy, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_027.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_027Leonardo Marra, the Treasury Curator of the Papal Sacristy has a quiet moment of reflection in the early morning where he can pray in a silent and empty Sistine Chapel in front of Michelangelo's The Last Judgment before the doors open to the thousands of devotees that will visit the chapel, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_028.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_028Leonardo Marra, the Treasury Curator, catalogues the many Chalices and other ceremonial crosses, cruets and candle holders stored inside the Papal Sacristy used by popes over the ages. The Papal Sacristy, sits directly behind the Sistine Chapel and houses the most treasured and priceless of Papal liturgical heritage collected over the centuries, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_029.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_029Choristers of the papal Sistine Chapel Choir perform Gregorian chants during a rehearsal inside Rome's School of the Sistine Choir, the preeminent school for child Choristers, under the watchful eye of Pope Benedict XVI, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_030.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_030On Ash Wednesday pope Benedict XVI arrives at Sant' Anselmo to conduct a mass marking the start of Lent, Rome, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_031.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_031Pope Benedict XVI heads a procession surrounded by a large number of cardinals as they approach Santa Sabina basilica, Rome, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_032.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_032Pope Benedict XVI conducts mass on Ash Wednesday inside Santa Sabina basilica, Rome, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_033.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_033Two chauffeurs greet one another in the cortile di San Damaso, inside the Vatican's Apostolic palace, Italy https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_034.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_034A craftsman inside the "Floreria", the furnishings and restoration department, prepares the cast of the papal crest for pope Benedict XVI, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_035.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_035A craftsman inside the "Floreria", furnishings and restoration department, restores a liturgical gilded chair dating back to pope Leo XIII in the 19th century. To be used by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's basilica, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_036.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_036Nuns inside the "Floreria", the furnishings and restoration department, cut cloth for the making of curtains, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_037.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_037A craftsman inside the "Floreria", the furnishings and restoration department, carving a papal seal onto a piece of furniture, The Vatican, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_038.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_038The Vatican's library and Archeology department, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_039.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_039Inside St. Peter's archive, or The Vatican's library are kept priceless archives, books, documents and works of art dating back hundreds of years, including the works and writings of Michelangelo, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/41https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_040.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_040Paolo Violini, an expert painting restorer at work on the frescos of the great Renaissance painter Raphael inside the Vatican Museums Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/42https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_041.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_041Paolo Violini, an expert painting restorer at work on the frescos of the great Renaissance painter Raphael inside the Vatican Museums Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/43https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_042.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_042Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, The Vatican's diplomat and responsible for the congregation of the oriental churches look out of his office window onto Rome's Via della Conciliazione which leads up to St. Peter's square, Roma, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/44https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_043.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_043Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, The Vatican's diplomat and responsible for the congregation of the oriental churches together with another cardinal at the foot of a representation of Jesus and the Last Supper in a chapel close to his office, Roma, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/The-Vatican---a-day-in-the-life/45https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_044.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Vatican_044A Swiss Guard keeps a watchful eye in the cortile di San Damaso, inside the Vatican's Apostolic palace, Italy https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Argentina_Gauchos_1993a.pngTEXT_Argentina_Gauchos_1993a https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_001Horse trainer Martín Hardoy, hugs a wild as yet not fully broken-in horse, as part of his pioneering techniques for horse taming, which he can achieve in three days with non-violent methods, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_002Horse trainer Martín Hardoy, hugs a wild as yet not fully broken-in horse, as part of his pioneering techniques for horse taming, which he can achieve in three days with non-violent methods, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_003Horse trainer Martín Hardoy, hugs a wild as yet not fully broken-in horse, as part of his pioneering techniques for horse taming, which he can achieve in three days with non-violent methods, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_004Ciriaco Chamorro, the Forman of La Estrella ranch lines up a group of "Criollo" thoroughbred horses, before selecting them for the day's activities, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_005Gauchos looking inside a a farmyard stable, La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_006.2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_006.2Gauchos saddling up to begin the days work on La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_007Gauchos saddling up to begin the days work on La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_008Gauchos saddling up and preparing themselves to begin the days work on La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_009Poncho protected Gauchos on their "Criollo" thoroughbred horses walk into the distant horizon on La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_010A gaucho herds a group of Criollo horses across a river on La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_011Tough Gauchos in their bare feet work in livestock corrals, a tradition restricted to this region of the country, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_012.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_012Gauchos work in the open "Pampa", vaccinating cows, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_013Gauchos, horsemen from La Estrella ranch herding Hereford cattle into corrals for vaccination , Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_014.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_014Gauchos from La Estrella ranch lassoing, castrating and vaccinating Hereford calfs, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_015Gauchos taking a short rest against the fence of a corral at La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_016.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_016Gauchos herding "Criollo" thoroughbred horses in La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_017.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_017Gauchos from La Estrella ranch castrate a young "Criollo" stallion, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_018.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_018Gauchos herding Hereford cattle on La Estrella Ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_019.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_019Gauchos prepare a traditional "Asado" of barbecued meats, sausages, lamb, pig, on open coal fires, San Antonio de Areco, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_020.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_020Gauchos sipping " Mate", a green tea out of a gourde and straw before getting their teeth stuck into a barbecued lunch of assorted meat cuts, Entre Ríos, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_021.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_021Gauchos relax at the end of a working day sipping "Mate", green tea out of a gourde and straw, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_022.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_022Gauchos herding Hereford cattle on horse back in La Estrella Ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_023-2.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_023-2Ciriaco Chamorro, lights up a cigarette, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_024.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_024Tough Gauchos in their bare feet work in livestock corrals butchering a lamb, a tradition restricted to this region of the country, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_025.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_025Hungry dogs look on whilst Francisco carves up a raw piece of lamb, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_026.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_026Gauchos take a rest after a long day's work in the corrals tending to livestock, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_027.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_027Gauchos in La Estrella ranch's stables , Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_028.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_028At the end of a long and arduous day on the open "Pampa" , Gauchos take a break drinking "Mate" from a gourde and straw, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_029.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_029Gauchos herding "Criollo" thoroughbred horses in La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_030.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_030Gauchos at a horse breaking competition, known as a Jineteada on a ranch similar to bronco bucking. Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_031.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_031Gauchos at a horse breaking competition, known as a Jineteada on a ranch similar to bronco bucking. Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_032.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_032Gauchos at a horse breaking competition, known as a Jineteada on a ranch similar to bronco bucking. Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_033.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_033Portrait of Gauchos at day break as they prepare to sadle up and go into the open "Pampa" grasslands to heard cattle, Vichadero, Uruguay https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_034.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_034Gauchos herding "Criollo" thoroughbred horses in La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_035.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_035Gauchos herding "Criollo" thoroughbred horses in La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_036.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_036Gauchos herding "Criollo" thoroughbred horses in La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_037.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_037Gauchos round up young steers for castration in animal corrals, Entre Ríos, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_038.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_038Gauchos crossing a stream on El Sauce ranch with a herd of Hereford cattle, Entre Ríos, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_039.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_039Gauchos at the annual horsemanship event in San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/41https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_040.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_040Pedro Cárcamo, a gaucho, farm worker in his room on Jose Menendez ranch, Rio Grande, Patagonia, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/42https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_041.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_041Gaucho saddling up, Entre Ríos, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/43https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_042.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_042Portrait of a gaucho on Vista Alegre ranch, Entre Ríos, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/44https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_043.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_043At the end of a long and arduous day on the open "Pampa", Gauchos take a break drinking "Mate" from a gourd and straw, Corrientes, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---Gauchos/45https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_044.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Gauchos_044Silhouette of Gauchos as the sun sets on Itaa Cabo ranch, Entre Ríos, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/2lt.jpg2ltA Niger army unit travels in convoy with the mayor of Agadez city, Rhissa Feltou and his entourage into the Aïr mountains from the Tidene region of central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_001A women sits inside an Alfa Romero Freccia d'Oro 1948 observing a man in La Boca district, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_002A couple dance tango along side a classic Alfa Romeo Freccia d'Oro 1948 in La Boca district, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_003A couple dance tango along side a classic Alfa Romeo Freccia d'Oro 1948 in La Boca district, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_004.jpgThe spirit of Tango No4, Buenos AiresA woman lo gazes through a bar window at a classic 1948 Alfa Romeo Freccia d'Oro during a short summer thunderstorm, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_005A Tango dancer is helped out of a classic Alfa Romeo Freccia d'Oro 1948 in Barracas district, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_006.1.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_006.1A women sits inside a classic 1948 Alfa Romero Freccia d'Oro observing a man smoking in La Boca district, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_007A couple sit inside a bar playing a game of cards, whilst a classic 1948 Alfa Rome Freccia d'Oro awaits them on departure, Barracas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_008A couple dance tango along side a classic Alfa Romeo Freccia d'Oro 1948 in Barracas district, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_009A classic 1948 Alfa Romeo Freccia d'Oro, awaits the arrival of its owner, Barracas, Buenos Aires, Aregentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_010A Tango dancing couple waiting to leave in a Alfa Romero Freccia d'Oro, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-Last-Tango/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Argentina_Last_Tango_011Tango dancers return to their classic 1948 Alfa Romeo Freccia d'Oro after an all out night of dancing, La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/About/1 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Niger_Peace_Keeper_in_the_desert_1.pngTEXT_Niger_Peace_Keeper_in_the_desert_1 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_001.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_001Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez and Mawli Dayak, son of the legendary Tuareg rebellion leader survey the strategically important Aïr mountain landscape with a Niger army unit providing security on their journey across the Sahara, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_002.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_002A Niger army unit travels in convoy with the mayor of Agadez city, Rhissa Feltou and his entourage into the Aïr mountains from the Tidene region of central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_010.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_010Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez city vists his father Feltou Mohamed Dayak, 90 at their ancestral home in the Tidene region of north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_001-3.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_001-3A Niger army unit travels in convoy with the mayor of Agadez city, Rhissa Feltou and his entourage into the Aïr mountains from the Tidene region of central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_009.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_009The Sahara desert in the Ténéré region of northern Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_004.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_004Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez visits Tuareg relatives temporarily living in wadi Tidene, central Niger amongst their goats, sheep and camels. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_003.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_003Rhissa Feltou (R), mayor of Agadez city rests after arriving in Wadi Tidene in central Niger on the road to the Aïr Mountains. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_007.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_007Traveling along the sand road that connects wadi Tidene and Bagzan in the Aïr mountains Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez and his entourage come across Rhissa's uncle Eddoua as he travels unaccompanied across the desert landscape, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_006.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_006A Niger army unit travels in convoy with the mayor of Agadez city, Rhissa Feltou and his entourage into the Aïr mountains from the Tidene region of central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_005.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_005A group of Tuareg heardsmen sit in a circle in conversation in wadi Tidene, central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_002a.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_002aOn the sand track heading away from the Aïr mountains towards the Sahara desert, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_008.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_008Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez, his entourage and a Niger army security unit pay their respects at the burial site of Mano Dayak, the legendary Tuareg leader who died in a plane crash in 1995 under suspicious circumstances. Mano was a freedom fighter, leader, and negotiator.of the Tuareg people He led the first successful Tuareg Rebellion in the Ténéré region, northern Niger between 1992 - 1995. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_012.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_012A Niger army unit resting in Wadi Tidene on the way to the Aïr mountains in central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_011.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_011Waissane Almoustafa is the highest ranking traditional leader of the Kel Ifoghas tribe in the Aïr mountains. He is a close relative to Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez and had also played a prominent role during the Tuareg rebellion lead by Mano Dayak in the years 1992-95. Tchirozerine, Niger https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_013.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_013A Niger army unit travels in convoy with the mayor of Agadez city, Rhissa Feltou and his entourage out of the Aïr mountain region of central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_016.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_016Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez together with his entourage and a Niger army unit survey the crash site of Mano Dayak, the legendary Tuareg leader, freedom fighter and negotiator of the first rebellion, 1992 -'95. Mano Dayak suffered a fatal plane crash in the Bagzan region of the Aïr mountains in 1995 under suspicious circumstances, but absolute causes of the accident were never conclusively proved, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_015.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_015Freelance gold mining prospectors eek out a living panning for gold on the sands of the Sahara desert under blistering conditions in the Tabelot region of the Aïr mountains, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_017.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_017A Niger army unit travels in convoy with the mayor of Agadez, Rhissa Feltou and his entourage out of the Aïr mountain region of central Niger. Seen here beginning the day, praying to Allah and closing down the temporary night camp site. Ténéré region of northern Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_014.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_014The Aïr mountains in the Bagzan region of north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_018.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_018Mawli Dayak, together with an entourage including Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez and a Niger army unit acting as a security unit in conversation with soldiers, some of whom took part in the Tuareg rebellion together with Mano Dayak (father of Mawli), the legendary Tuareg leader, freedom fighter and negotiator of the first rebellion, 1992 -'95, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_019.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_019A camel train has been traveling for four months across the Sahara desert from the Aïr mountains towards Agadez city, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_021.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_021The Sultan of the Aïr region, which includes the city of Agadez, surrounded by his entourage. The Sultanate of Agadez, was a Berber kingdom founded in 1449 by the Tuareg, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_020.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_020A camel train has been traveling for four months across the Sahara desert from the Aïr mountains towards Agadez city, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_022.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_022Elevated view of the central "old" town of Agadez, Niger https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_025.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_025In an unmarked "safe house" on the outskirts of Agadez a group of illegal Nigerian migrants are temporarily housed whilst they wait for the right moment to pay for a ride on the back of the notorious Toyota trucks that will transport them through the desert, dangerous and unstable Libya and onto the Mediterranean in the hopes of making it into the heart of Europe, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_024.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_024Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez, relaxes in the inner courtyard of his home during the blistering heat of mid afternoon, Agadez, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_026.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_026An emblematic scene of the level of pollution in the city of Agadez. Black plastic bags are visible everywhere, particularly in the few trees an bushes where the bags get caught in the thorns and blight the landscape, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_030.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_030Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez, visits the street cleaners association which has recently been created and funded by the European Union to genertate income, employment and a sense of purpose and dignity for woman and young men, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_027.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_027The old city of Agadez is the largest city in central Niger, with a population of 118,244 (2012 census). It lies in the Sahara and is the capital of Aïr region, one of the traditional Tuareg -Berber federations, Niger https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_031.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_031Rhissa Feltou, mayor of Agadez, visits the street cleaners association which has recently been created and funded by the European Union to genertate income, employment and a sense of purpose and dignity for woman and young men, Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Peace-seeker-in-the-desert/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/newwebsite_2018_projects_niger_023.jpgnewwebsite_2018_projects_niger_023Agadez Mosque is a prominent mosque in Agadez, Niger. Made of clay, it was originally built in 1515 and restored in 1844. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/1it.3.jpg1it.3 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_001Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here members of the Rossi team finishing a training session, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_002Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here a clenched fist of Italy's former heavy weight boxing champion, whom is one of the 27 members of the Rossi team, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_003Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here members of the Rossi team preparing for a training session, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_004Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here, members of the Rossi team working out in their boxing gym, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20140609_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_reds1541.jpg20140609_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_reds1541Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here, members of the Rossi team working out in their weight lifting gym, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_006Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here, members of the Rossi team working out in their boxing gym, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_007Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here, members of the Rossi team preparing to do battle in Santa Croce square, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_008Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here, a member of the Rossi team in deep concentration before doing battle in Santa Croce square, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_009Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here, musical members of the Azzurri team wind their way through the heart of Florence before arriving at Santa Croce square to do battle against their opponents, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_010Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here the Azzurri team in training, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_011Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here the Azzurri team after training, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_canon.jpgNewWebsite_canon https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20140614_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_3686.jpg20140614_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_3686Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Seen here the Azzurri team enter Santa Croce square for their bone crunching match against their Rossi opponents, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_013Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Seen here the Azzurri team enter Santa Croce square for their bone crunching match against their Rossi opponents, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_014.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_014Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Seen here the Azzurri team enter Santa Croce square for their bone crunching match against their Rossi opponents, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_015Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Seen here the Azzurri team enter Santa Croce square for their bone crunching match against their Rossi opponents, Florence, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_016.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_016Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Seen here the Rossi team walk through the heart of Florence in mean concentration before entering Santa Croce square to do battle against the Bianchi team, Italy https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_017.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_017Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. Not for the faint hearted, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_018.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_018Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. Here Rossi team in a cry to battle, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20140615_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_5000a.jpg20140615_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_5000aFlorence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the opposition goal. Here the horsemen of the Azzurri team enter the square as part of the pageant, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_020.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_020Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. The Azzurri and Bianchi teams do battle, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20140614_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_4038.jpg20140614_canon_jwt_calcio_fiorentino_4038 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_021.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_021Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. An Azzurri team member is knocked out, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_024.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_024Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. The Azzurri team end victorious, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_023.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_023Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. The Azzurri and Bianchi teams do battle, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_025.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_025Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. The Azzurri team end victorious, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_026.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_026Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. Here the horsemen of the Verdi team enter the square as part of the pageant, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_027.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_027Members of the Rossi and Verdi teams from Florence's Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in the Piazza Santa Croce, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_028.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_028Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here the Verdi team prepare to do battle in the square, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_029.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_029Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here the Verdi and Rossi team in battle, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_030.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_030Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here the Verdi and Rossi team in battle, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_031.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_031Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here the Verdi and Rossi team in battle, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_032.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_032Calcio fiorentino, also known as Gladiator Football, is an early form of the game that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Seen here the Verdi and Rossi team in battle, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_033.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_033Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. The Rossi team celebrate their hard earned win, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_034.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_034Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. The Rossi team celebrate their hard earned win, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_035.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_035Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. The Verdi team lick their wounds and loss, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_036.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_036Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. The Rossi team celebrate their hard earned win, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Italy---Gladiator-Football/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_037.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Italy_Calcio_037Florence's infamous Calcio Storico, also known as Gladiator Football. It takes place over two weekends in Piazza Santa Croce. A bone crunching experience for both 27 men teams, where all tactics are allowed to get the ball to the oppositions goal. The Rossi team celebrate their hard earned win, Italy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Brazil_Under_Christs_Shadow_01_2004.pngTEXT_Brazil_Under_Christs_Shadow_01_2004 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Brazil_Under_Christs_Shadow_02a_2004.pngTEXT_Brazil_Under_Christs_Shadow_02a_2004 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_001.jpg01-001.jpgSunrise over Rio de Janeiro, the eternal "Beautiful city" as known by "Cariocas", overlooked by Christ the Redeemer, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_002.jpg01-002.jpgRocinha, Latin America's largest urban favela and one of Rio de Janeiro's 700 with a population of approx. 200.000 residents . It is currently in the middle of a drug war between two rival drug factions of the Red Command - "Comando Vermelho", Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_003.jpg01-003.jpgThe wedding reception of Sergio Cabral Jr, Rio de Janeiro's former Governor. Holds a lavish celebratory party at the world famous Copacabana Palace Hotel, where 1000 VIP guests are invited to take part in a lavish full scale sit down dinner with a Jazz band, choristers, pianist, DJ and discoteque, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_004.jpg01-004.jpgMilitary police enter Pixunga favela in search of drugs and arms, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_005.jpg01-005.jpgHeiner Pflug, who has been a victim of house robbery, relaxes at home in the exclusive neighbourhood of Sao Conrado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_006.jpg01-006.jpgAri Texeira, 43 who was shot dead at point blank range by a group of five people in the seedy city centre. A revenge killing known as "payback", related to the drug trade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_007.jpg01-007.jpgThe elite special police force BOPE, trained to SWAT standards deal with the increasing drug trafficking problem and its consequent uncontrolled violence throughout Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_008.jpg01-008.jpgArmed drug dealers in Vidigal favela close to the wealthy southern neighbourhood of Leblón. Most of the drug dealers are in their teens or early twenties, their life expectancy is very short, because of the very high risk lifestyle they have adopted, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_009.jpg01-014.jpgThe BOPE special elite police force practice abseiling during training with backdrop of Rio de Janeiro and the Sugar Loaf mountain, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_010.jpg01-013.jpgThe view over Vidigal favela, a hot bed of the drug trade which overlooks the Sheraton Hotel and the middle class neighbourhoods of Leblon and Ipanema, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_011.jpg01-012.jpgTiago da Silva, 21, a member of the "Tercer Comando Poder" drug faction is found murdered together with his father and eight other people in a night killing spree in favela Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_012.jpg01-016.jpgThe 'BOPE' elite special police force operate daily incursions into favela "do Dende" in Isla Governador neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, another present hot spot of rival drug factions wanting control of rival drug gang territory, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_013.jpg01-009.jpgAdemar da Silva, 53 one of eight people murdered in what is known as a "Chaçina" (mass killing) in the favela Santa Cruz. Ademar was an innocent victim of a revenge killing of rival gang members wanting control of their turf. His son, Tiago involved in the drug trade was murdered at the same time, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_014.jpg01-018.jpgFuneral of former prisoner Paulo Roberto Souza, 21, who died in suspicious circumstances whilst in the care of prison service personnel who were transferring him from Bangu prison to Rocha Faria hospital for a fractured wrist sustained playing a game of football. Seen in the picture his two brothers, girlfriend and an aunt, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_015Mass in Sao Bento monastery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_016.jpg01-023.jpgRobbers are taken away from an attempted robbery scene, where at gunpoint they tried to rob a family of money, jewellery and other valuable belongings, the police where alerted and the robbers gave themselves up without a fight, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_017.jpg01-026.jpgA view of Ipanema beach with favela Vidigal in the background, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_018.jpg01-028.jpgLife continues, much like the breaking waves on Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_019.jpg01-030.jpgOn the set of Globo TV's central production facilities in Jacarepagua, a major production centre for Brazil's soap opera industry. The centre's facilities boast state-of- the- art technology, numerous indoor studios and several outdoor Scenographic cities which employ thousands of professionals in different specialities, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_020.jpg01-032.jpgPaula Orsini, a sports TV presenter, does her daily hour long work out in Rio's premier private "a" class Health club. This, a strictly wealthy person's playground as the cost to join and maintain membership are very high, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10192668.jpg02-010.jpgNarcisa Tamborideguy, 38, one of Rio's most infamous socialites. Her Copacabana beach front apartment in the exclusive and equally famous building The Chopin nestles next to the world famous Copacabana Palace Hotel to which her building has exclusive usage of the hotel's swimming pool. As her name candidly points out, Narcisa is somewhat conscious of herself, her whole apartment is covered from floor to ceiling with mirrors and photographs so she never loses sight of herself. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_021.jpg01-025.jpgMonica Prazl, rock climbing up the Sugar Loaf mountain with views of the Christ the Redeemer, Botafogo bay and the Yacht club. Climbing is a popular activity amongst the middle classes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_022.jpg01-038.jpgOn the rainy and seedy streets of Rio's city centre, prostitutes and transvestites ply their trade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_023.jpg01-039.jpgAri Texeira, 43 who was shot dead at point blank range by a group of five people in the seedy city centre. A revenge killing known as "payback", related to the drug trade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_024.jpg01-047.jpgA confrontation between rival drug gang members in the favela Pixunga, leaves two mutilated bodies on the road side after a five hour gun battle, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10191963-Edit.jpg01-045.jpgVisual violence in the form of graffiti in a rough neighbourhood. Streets are littered with this type of graffiti, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_026.jpg01-048.jpgPrisoners look out from a cell at the Frei Caneca prison complex, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10128133c.jpgCPA-10128133cOn the edges of Rio's "City of God" favela, many residents choose illegally to connect to the electricity grid in order not to pay their consumption. A clear example of poverty and criminality. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_027.jpg01-043.jpgThe "Fashion Clinic" beauty salon in Ipanema. At this very up market salon Rio's wealthy class have 'Gold' facials, hair removal, nail and other treatments as they are pampered with coffee and other drinks, Brazil https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_028.jpg01-061.jpgTop Fashion Mall where the most exclusive brands are sold and Rio's rich can indulge their passion and taste for designer wear and exclusive restaurants, Brazil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil-–-Under-Christ’s-Shadow/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Projects_Brazil_UnderChristsShadow_029.jpg01-058.jpgBlack nannies, known as "Babas" are responsible for the well being of white children of rich upper middle class Rio families, who's parents either both work or where the mother often sleeps in late, leaving the care of the child to the nanny. 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Stern No 1 - Portfolio series, Gruner & Jahr (Germany), 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Books/Body-Culture-in-Brazil/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_003Body Culture in Brazil - Stern No 1 - Portfolio series, Gruner & Jahr (Germany), 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Books/Body-Culture-in-Brazil/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_004Body Culture in Brazil - Stern No 1 - Portfolio series, Gruner & Jahr (Germany), 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Books/Body-Culture-in-Brazil/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_005Body Culture in Brazil - Stern No 1 - Portfolio series, Gruner & Jahr (Germany), 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Books/Body-Culture-in-Brazil/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_006Body Culture in Brazil - Stern No 1 - Portfolio series, Gruner & Jahr (Germany), 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Books/Body-Culture-in-Brazil/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_007Body Culture in Brazil - Stern No 1 - Portfolio series, Gruner & Jahr (Germany), 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Books/Body-Culture-in-Brazil/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_008Body Culture in Brazil - Stern No 1 - Portfolio series, Gruner & Jahr (Germany), 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Books/Body-Culture-in-Brazil/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_009Body Culture in Brazil - Stern No 1 - Portfolio series, Gruner & Jahr (Germany), 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Books/Body-Culture-in-Brazil/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Books_Brazil_GJ_Portfolio_010Body Culture in Brazil - Stern No 1 - Portfolio series, Gruner & Jahr (Germany), 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Chile_Papageno_2017-18.pngTEXT_Chile_Papageno_2017-18 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0001.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0001Christian Boesch, former Austrian opera star, 77 famous for his representation of Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute looks into the distance along the shore line of lake Calafquén that butt onto his farm in south-central Chile. He ponders the impact his music school curriculum has on the local student population. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0002.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0002Fundo Papageno, Christian Boesch's 500 hectare farmstead that butt's onto Lake Calafquén with a view of Villarica volcano, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0003.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0003Christian Boesch together with members of his family, Henrike his wife, daughter Marie and son Michael having breakfast at home on their farm Papageno, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0004.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0004The Andes mountain range with a clear view of Villarrica and Lanín volcanoes as seen from Fundo Papageno in Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0005.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0005Mapuche teacher Mario Nehual Calfu heads up the small rural primary school of Trafún Chico surrounded by his keen music players which are part of the Papageno music school programme of bringing instruments and classical music to small distant communities across the region of Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0006.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0006Mapuche teacher Mario Nehual Calfu heads up the small rural primary school of Trafún Chico surrounded by his keen music players which are part of the Papageno music school programme of bringing instruments and classical music to small distant communities across the region of Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0007.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0007The Camarata Papageno rehearsing at the music school founded by Christian Boesch who is giving a brief talk to the members of the group together with the celebrated Cellist Yuri Seiler-Christiansen before performing live at Mr. Boesch's special "sponsors' concert to be held at his famrhouse. The partcipating musicians are the most gifted from all over Chile which go for short one or two week master class programmes to perfect or improve their techniques, Villarrica, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0008.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0008Christian Boesch, creator of the Papageno music school oversees a lesson to primary school children. This is part of his project of bringing music to distant rural communities across Araucanía, Quesquechan, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0009.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0009Young Mapuche primary school children in music lesson. They are part of the Papageno music school programme of bringing music education to distant rural communities across Araucanía, Trafún Chico, Chile https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0010.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0010View of Villarrica volcano in the crisp spring morning light, Fundo Papageno, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0011.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0011A group of native Mapuche children with their music teacher prepare to go on stage for a performance rehearsal at Huitag rural primary school, Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0012.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0012Christian Boesch, 77 founder and creator of the Papageno music school project at the annual classical music concert in Villarrica town given by 1125 children who participate in the Papageno programme of music education given to rural primary school kids across Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0013.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0013A group of native "Mapuche" children with traditional instrument at the annual music concert given by 1125 children in Villarrica town, who participate in the Papageno programme of music education given to rural primary school kids in the Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0014.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0014A group of native "Mapuche" children with traditional instrument at the annual music concert given by 1125 children in Villarrica town, who participate in the Papageno programme of music education given to rural primary school kids in the Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0015.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0015Young children have fun looking out of a window at Huitag rural community school, during a Papageno music programme rehearsal, Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0016.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0016A group of native Mapuche children with their music teacher prepare to go on stage for a rehearsal performance at Huitag rural primary school, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0017.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0017Araucaria trees inside the Villarrica National Park, Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0018.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0018Mapuche musician, teacher and insturment maker José Otaiza together with his musical daughter Millalien inside the Papageno music school department for the making and repairing of instruments. He is a key member of the Papageno music school programme, Villarrica, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0019.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0019Mapuche girl Macarena Millañaco Caniupan, 6, with her guitar and grandmother Gloria Loncopan at Huitag rural school, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0020.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0020Mapuche boy, Diego Neculpan Llancafilo, 6, with his guitar at Huitag school. He's part of the Papageno music school programme taking music education to small rural indigenous communities in Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0021.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0021"Huilo Huilo" waterfall in a Chilean biological reserve, Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0022.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0022Christian Boesch, director and creator of the Papageno Music school improvises a jam duet with Sebastian Barros at Quesquechan primary rural school, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0023.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0023As part of the Papageno music school project of bringing music to these distant rural communities, primary school children rehearse a piece of music in a lesson, Quesquechan, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0024.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0024The Villarrica volcano reflected on lake Calafquén, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0025.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0025Christian Boesch, director and creator of the Papageno music school is also a farmer. Here seen removing the cut undergrowth of his pine forest inside his farm close to lake Calafquén, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0026.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0026Christian Boesch, 77 founder and creator of the Papageno Music School directs his farm labourers in transporting an abandoned wooden house from one part of his lake side farm to another. The intended use for the wooden hut is to convert it to a fully functioning kitchen for the music school's summer camp programme along the shores of lake Calafquén, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0027.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0027Christian Boesch, 77 founder and creator of the Papageno Music School directs his farm labourers in transporting an abandoned wooden house from one part of his lake side farm to another. The intended use for the wooden hut is to convert it to a fully functioning kitchen for the music school's summer camp programme along the shores of lake Calafquén, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0028.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0028Christian Boesch, 77 founder and creator of the Papageno Music School directs his farm labourers in transporting an abandoned wooden house from one part of his lake side farm to another. As he called it his "Fitzcarraldo-Papageno" moment. The intended use for the wooden hut is to convert it to a fully functioning kitchen for the music school's summer camp programme along the shores of lake Calafquén, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0029.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0029"Mapuche" children participate in the Papageno music school's summer camp programme held along the shores of Lake Calafquén. Seen here young Mapuche children from the "Zona de resisitencia", or "Red zone" enjoying breakfast together with their teachers and in the company of Christain Boesch, founder and creator of the programme, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0030.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0030The Papageno music school's summer camp held along the shores of Lake Calafquén which are part of the farm, Fundo Papageno, Christian Boesch owns in the Araucanía region of south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0031.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0031Students and teachers play a final concert at the 2018 Papageno music summer camp programme along the Calafquén lakeshore belonging to Christain Boesch, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0032.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0032Tha Villarrica National Park, located in the Andes, in the Araucanía and Los Ríos region of Chile. It covers 630 square Kms. It is known for the native Araucaria tree. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0033.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0033Music school teacher in rehearsal with a group of children from Quesquechan rural primary school. They are part of the Papageno music school programme of bringing music to rural communities, Araucanía, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0034.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0034Austrian cellist Heidi Litschauer conducting a week long Materclass at the Papageno music school with Patricio Riquelme, 22 year old student from the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile. The most talented students from around the country are given the opportunity to improve their skills with Masters that generally travel from Austria . Heidi was a solo-cellist of the Camerata Academica Salzburg from 1982 till her retirement and from1973 to 2013, Professor of cello at the Mozarteum University, Salzburg. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0035.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0035The highly talented Juan Jose Peña, 8 year old violinist from Colombia plays to a select audience including Christian Boesch, creator of the Papageno music school. He and his missionary parents are at the school to elicit support and advice as to how he can progress his future as a violinist, Villarrica, Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0036.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0036"Huilo Huilo" waterfall in a Chilean biological reserve, Araucanía, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0037.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0037Members of the legendary Chilean rock-folk band "Los Jaivas" perform live together with a group of indigenous Mapuche children at La Muestra Costumbrista show in Collipulli city. The Mapuche children form part of Christian Boesch's Papageno music education project in the Araucanía region of Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0038.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0038Members of the legendary Chilean rock-folk band "Los Jaivas" perform live together with a group of indigenous Mapuche children at La Muestra Costumbrista show in Collipulli city. The Mapuche children form part of Christian Boesch's Papageno music education project in the Araucanía region of Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---Papageno-in-Paradise/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Chile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0039.jpgChile_Papageno_in_Paradise_0039Christian Boesch, director and creator of the Papageno music school is also a farmer. Seen here inside his home's garden overlooking the Villarrica and Lanín volcanoes close to the Andes mountain range pondering his achievements and the future of his various enterprises, south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Chile_Mapuches_and_King.pngTEXT_Chile_Mapuches_and_King https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_001.jpgmapuches_chile_001Frédéric 1st (Luz), the present day French King of the Mapuches of Araucanía holds a photograph of Orelie - Antoine de Tounens, a French lawyer and adventurer who proclaimed by a decree in November 1860 that Araucanía and Patagonia did not depend of any other states and that a Kingdom of Araucanía was founded with himself as King. It is disputed whether Tounens was a self-proclaimed king or was elected by some Mapuche chiefs. Arrested on January 1862 by the Chilean authorities. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_002.jpgmapuches_chile_002Lorenzo Ayallapan Cayuleo, 81 also known as "El hombre Pájaro", Birdman. Lorenzo claims to speak and understand 60 different bird languages. In the Mapuche world he is acknowledged as a sage and guardian of his people's ancestral culture. Seen here at his favourite spots where four rivers meet the Pacific Ocean in the bay of Pto. Saavedra in Araucanía. He claims it to be a place of great energy which makes it easy to listen to " the four sounds of life": the earth, sea, wind and the sound of trees. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_003.jpgmapuches_chile_003The Andes mountain range with a clear view of Villarrica and Lanín volcanoes. The heart of Mapuche territory. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_010.jpgmapuches_chile_010Kurrrimangk Chihuaihuen together with his wife Juana Calfunao Paillalef both are active members of the Mapuche community in the fight for their autonomy. They live on the ancestral lands of Juana's family where they lead a self sustaining life tending to their agriculture and livestock, when not confronting the authorities on matters of Mapuche self determination. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_005.jpgmapuches_chile_005José Otaiza, 43 in front of his ancestral home's entrance, outside Villarica town. José grew up in the poorest "barrio" on the outskirts of Santiago. He's a mestizo, mother being a Mapuche, father is a white Chilean. José quit schooling at 14, to dedicate himself to music and became a street musician. He joined a group and began touring across South America, mainly Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina to further his knowledge of Indigenous musical expressions. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_007.jpgmapuches_chile_007The Villarrica volcano reflected on lake Calafquén at the heart of Araucanía. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_006.jpgmapuches_chile_006Maria Antahuilia Nahuelpi lives in a small hut in the countryside of what is known as the "resisitence" area of Mapuche territory. She is a well known Machi, a powerful healer / Shaman but also the most respected religious figure in Mapuche culture. Often a Machi is chosen whilst being a child depending on her or his character, often described by outsiders as the "Creator God". Most often Machis are women. south-central Chile. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_008.jpgmapuches_chile_008Jaime Huenchullan, is a farmer and a "Werken", which means messenger in Mapuche cosmology. He also has become very known in 2018 news for having being arrested and accused of "terrorism" together with his two brothers and seven other Mapuches for vandalising and torching forestry trucks. During their trial it became evident that the so called "proof "had been planted by the police in the form of false information posted onto their WhatsApp messages and other telephone intercepts. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_009.jpgmapuches_chile_009View of Villarrica volcano in the crisp spring morning light, at the heart of Mapuche ancestral land in Araucanía. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_004.jpgmapuches_chile_004Juana Calfunao Paillalef, a female Lonko and certainly one of the most outspoken defenders of the Mapuche cause stands in front of her "Ruka", the traditional circular wood and straw hut on her ancestral land. Having being imprisoned several times and in all for more then four years, has become an important symbol for the resistance of her indigenous people. She is known and admired both at home and abroad, though her many enemies inside the Chilean state consider her to be a "terrorist". https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_011.jpgmapuches_chile_011Don Mario Mila Millalen, 69 is a senior Mapuche political leader, known in their language as the Lonko of the Lonko's. He's been a political activist all his adult life. He has been involved in governmental meetings dating back several Chilean presidents, including meetings with former General A. Pinochet in an attempt to improve the living and working conditions of the Mapuches and above all else resolve the hotly disputed matter of the expropriation of their ancestral lands. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_012.jpgmapuches_chile_012A small holding of reclaimed Mapuche land off the Chilean State in the district of Temulemu, Araucanía. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_014.jpgmapuches_chile_014Don Rosendo Curilaf, 90 and wife Margarita 89 at the burial site of their ancestors, a Mapuche cemetery in Cuno, Araucanía. Rosendo is a guardian of tradition and culture and knows everything about Mapuche rites and rituals, including burial which he conducts at the request of members of his community. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Chile---The-Mapuche-and-their-"King"/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/mapuches_chile_013.jpgmapuches_chile_013Huilo Huilo waterfall in a Chilean biological reserve, Araucanía. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Nicaragua_35years_Ortega_revolution_2008.pngTEXT_Nicaragua_35years_Ortega_revolution_2008 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_001.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaLate into the evening a tropical storm washes clean a revolutionary mural extolling the virtues of recent history. Esteli a town which saw much fighting during the civil war. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_002.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaJusto Ramón Gonzalez (Tarzán), a former Sandinista fighter who fought in the Masaya region, survived the war and now lives with his family and runs a small shoe making business from his home in Masaya town. Seen here with photographer Susan Meiselas' Nicaragua book as he is immortalised in it with a photograph of he and two other young compañeros throwing home made bombs. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_003.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaEdén Pastora (born 1937), also known as "Comandante Cero" seen at home surrounded by photographs and arms used during his years in combat, included the image which symbolised the beginning of the downfall of the Somoza regime when he and a group of rebels stormed the National Palace, the seat of power. In the years prior to the fall of the Somoza regime, Pastora was the leader of the Southern Front, the largest militia in southern Nicaragua, second only to the FSLN in the north. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_004.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaA farmer walks past a Sandinista war mural in Jinotega. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_005.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaIn the main square of Jinotega town people rest, drink or eat at a street side snack bar against a revolutionary mural depicting Augusto Sandino and Che Guevara, two heroes that still loom large in popular Nicaraguan culture. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_006.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaUnder the direction of Tomas Alvarado a former Sandinista fighter, several basket ball teams have been created in Managua to give support to former "Contra" and Sandinista war veterans which were left handicapped as a result of wounds sustained in the long bitter war to free themselves of the Somoza dictatorship and then the American backed civil war that followed. They often play competitive games agains other Central American teams, Managua. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_007.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaJusto Ramón Gonzalez (Tarzán), a former Sandinista fighter who fought in the Masaya region, survived the war and now lives with his family and runs a small shoe making business from his home in Masaya town. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_008.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaA devotee of the patron saint of Managua, carries a small statue of Santo Domingo, the patron saint of the city. He smears his body in used car engine oil. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_009.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaPilgrims drag themselves into Managua's Santo Domingo's church to celebrate the city's patron saint on the 2nd Sunday in August. Nicaraguans are devoutly Catholic, with the helping hand of friends and family he is dragged into the church after a day long pilgrimage on his knees. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_010.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaPilgrimes attend the annual celebrations of the patron saint of Managua, Santo Domingo. The event takes place through out the 2nd Sunday of August traveling 10Kms from one church to another both by the name of Santo Domingo. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_011.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaPilgrims drag themselves into Managua's Santo Domingo's church to celebrate the city's patron saint on the 2nd Sunday in August. Nicaraguans are devoutly Catholic, with the helping hand of friends and family he is dragged into the church after a day long pilgrimage on his knees. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_012.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaMan stands outside a veterinery shop in Juigalpa town. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_013.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaAt "La Barrera" the very rudimentary bull ring in Juigalpa town the public and especially the testosterone driven young jump into the ring to challenge the running bulls. This event takes place during the month of August when the town celebrates the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Every year there are many participants who are injured or in a few cases killed by the running bulls. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_014.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaAt "La Barrera" the very rudimentary bull ring in Juigalpa town the public and especially the testosterone driven young jump into the ring to challenge the running bulls. This event takes place during the month of August when the town celebrates the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Every year there are many participants who are injured or in a few cases killed by the running bulls. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_015.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaAnnual horse parade where rich and poor alike show off their horses in the colonial town of Granada. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_016.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaAnnual horse parade where rich and poor alike show off their horses in the colonial town of Granada. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_017.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaA young women being attended to by the emergency dept. of the Manolo Morales hospital, Managua. The working conditions are reasonably precarious and though the Sandinista government has stated that all medicine is free, the medical investment is precarious, poor at best. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_018.jpgNicaragua_2008_30Years_018Clothes hang out to dry in a refuge for adolescent mothers and their babies, Managua. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_019.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaAngela and Maria both 12, attend to their recently born babies in "Casa Alianza" a refuge for child mothers. They, like most other girls suffered sexual abuse in the family home from fathers, step fathers and other family members. 12 girls and their babies can live in the refuge, generally up to 24 months whilst the refuge's administration broker a return to their family homes. The refuge provides full medical and psychological attention, as well as all living needs and religious guidance, Managua. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_020.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaYoung teenagers dancing at the annual Managua Horse parade fiesta. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_021.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaAt the end of each working day a total of 30.000 workers, mostly women leave the "Free trade zone" on the outskirts of Managua to head home. The free trade zone is mostly comprised of foreign textile companies, Taiwanese, Mexican and American. All the production is for export to destinations around the world. This is one area of positive employment in a country dominated by underemployment, particularly outside the capital. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_022.jpg30 years of the Sandinist Revolution, NicaraguaIn Managua's "free trade zone" outside the capital employ 30.000 workers in "Maquilas", Textile companies which are all foreign owned by Mexican, American and Taiwanese firms. All the production is for global markets and is the one area which generates significant economic impulse to an otherwise moribund economy. Most of the workers are women. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Nicaragua---30-years-of-the-Sandinista-revolution/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Nicaragua_2008_30Years_023.jpgNicaragua_2008_30Years_023At the end of each working day a total of 30.000 workers, mostly women leave the "Free trade zone" on the outskirts of Managua to head home. The free trade zone is mostly comprised of foreign textile companies, Taiwanese, Mexican and American. All the production is for export to destinations around the world. This is one area of positive employment in a country dominated by underemployment, particularly outside the capital. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Niger_Urban_Nomad_LF.pngTEXT_Niger_Urban_Nomad_LF https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_001.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_001Liman Feltou, Tuareg camel herdsman as well as driver, Agadez city. Niger https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_002.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_002Liman Feltou, is both a Camel herder as well as a truck driver, formerly driving tourists around the Sahara desert. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_003.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_003Liman Feltou, 62 reflected in his truck's mirror as he drives through the Sahara desert landscape. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_004.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_004Liman Feltou, 62, tends to his large herd of camels well in excess of 100 heads at dusk in Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_005.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_005Liman Feltou, 62, tends to his large herd of camels well in excess of 100 heads at dusk in Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_006.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_006Liman Feltou, vists his father Feltou Mohamed Dayak, 90 at their ancestral home in the Tidene region of north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_007.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_007Liman Feltou, Tuareg camel herdsman as well as driver, Agadez city. Niger https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_008.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_008Liman Feltou's neighbours and employees, tending to their needs before night fall in the form of chopping wood, making millet flour, tending to their animals: camels, goats and sheep in the Ténéré region - Tchirozerine of north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_009.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_009Liman Feltou, camel herder and truck driver in conversation with his neighbour herder Ahmed Lembuch at the entrance to his Ehan, or circular home in Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_011.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_011Tuareg camel herdsmen preparing to mount camels to head to water well in the Sahara desert in the Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_014.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_014The weathered feet of an old Tuareg camel herdsman in the Ténéré region - Tchirozerine of north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_012.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_012Tuareg camel herdsmen mounted on their camels head to water well in the Sahara desert in the Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. Seen here as a portrait of their whole family. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_015.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_015Portrait of a Tuareg camel herdsman in theTénéré region - Tchirozerine of north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_013.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_013A Tuareg family after having returned to their ehan, the circular tent they live in, complete their activities before night fall in theTénéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_016.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_016Liman Feltou, 62 camel herder and truck driver together with his friends and neighbours in Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_018.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_018Young men, boys and girls tend to their livestock: camels, goats, sheep, donkeys at a desert water well in the Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_017.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_017Liman Feltou, 62 waits for his turn to allow his camels to drink at a water well in the Ténéré region - Tchirozerine of north central Niger, seen here greeting his neighbour as they tend to the drinking needs of their livestock: camels, goats, sheep, donkeys. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_021.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_021Liman Feltou, 62 waits for his turn to allow his camels to drink at a water well in the Ténéré region - Tchirozerine of north central Niger, whilst young men, boys and girls tend to the drinking needs of their livestock: camels, goats, sheep, donkeys. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_022.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_022Liman Feltou, 62 rests and contemplates his universe of endless open desert in Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger with his friend and neighbour, fellow Tuareg Mohamed. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_019.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_019Young men, boys and girls tend to their livestock: camels, goats, sheep, donkeys at a desert water well in the Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_010.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_010Liman Feltou, 62 camel herder and truck driver in Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_020.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_020Liman Feltou, 62 waits for his turn to allow his camels to drink at a water well in the Ténéré region - Tchirozerine of north central Niger, whilst young men, boys and girls tend to the drinking needs of their livestock: camels, goats, sheep, donkeys. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_023.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_023Liman Feltou, 62 drinks tea before bed time in the endless spread of the Sahara desert at dusk, Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Niger---Liman-Feltou,-the-urban-nomad/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Niger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_024.jpgNiger_Liman_Feltou_Tuareg_024Liman Feltou, 62 beds down for the night using his pick-up's wheel as a pillow to rest his head in the endless open desert in Ténéré region - Tchirozerine, north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Argentina_Tango_2020_1.pngTEXT_Argentina_Tango_2020_1 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Argentina_Tango_2020_2a.pngTEXT_Argentina_Tango_2020_2a https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/002a_20200302_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_238.jpg002a_20200302_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_238Tango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 dancing in the courtyard of the Ezeiza family estate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/001b_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_422.jpgThe last danceTango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 dancing in the courtyard of the Ezeiza family estate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/003a_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_360.jpgTango dancers prepare for a rehearsal.Tango dancers, Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 in final preparations for a Tango performance at La Catedral del Tango social club in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/004a_20200217_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_256.jpgMan walks past a painted mural depicting a Tango dance scene.A Tango dancing scene on a wall mural in San Telmo with a statue of Roberto Goyeneche a famous Tango artist, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/005a_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_202.jpgThe last danceTango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 dancing in the courtyard of the Ezeiza family estate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20200217_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_205-Edit.jpg20200217_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_205-EditView from inside iconic Tango Bar Sur, a venue that has seen famous musicians play or experience the classical sounds of Tango in San Telmo neighbourhood, Buenos Aires. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/006a_20200217_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_014.jpgDancing in the rain.Dancer Pablo Fermani jumps into a large puddle of water during a tropical downpour in front of Bar Sur, a famous Tango bar in the San Telmo neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/007a_20200218_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_026.jpg007a_20200218_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_026A wall mural / graffiti depicting a Tango band and singer in full flow, in San Telmo neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/008a_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_375.jpg008a_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_375Tango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 dancing in the courtyard of the Ezeiza family estate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/009b_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_827.jpgThe last danceTango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 rehearse a dance routine at La Catedral del Tango social club, before a live show later that night, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_443a.jpg20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_443aBUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - MARCH 2: Tango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 embrace while dancing in the courtyard of the spanish style courtyard of the Ezeiza family estate in Buenos Aires, on March 2, 2020. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/011a_20200222_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_186-2.jpgTango musicians in live performance in bar.Tango musicians in a live performance in Bar Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/010a_20200215_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_031.jpg010a_20200215_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_031Tango mural art showing dancers and a large acordeon on a Buenos Aires wall, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/013a_20200222_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_130.jpgTango dancers during a live performance in bar.Tango dancers Angi Ordoñez and Nicolás Sambucetti in a live performance at Bar Sur in the San Telmo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/012a_20161203_arg_bsas_0262.jpg012a_20161203_arg_bsas_0262Couples dance Tango and Milongas on Avenida de Mayo, as part of the "National day of culture", Buenos Aires city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/014a_20200218_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_093.jpg014a_20200218_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_093Atmospheric internal courtyard of traditional Spanish mansion in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/016a_20200222_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_066.jpgInterior of Tango Bar SurInterior of Bar Sur, famous Tango bar with a prominant painting of Carlos Gardel the maximum icon promoting the musical and dance genre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/017a_20200222_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_370.jpgTango dancers embrase on dance floorTango dancers Fernanda Valenzuela and Darío Alzugaray in a live performance at "Bar Sur" in the San Telmo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/022a_20200224_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_186.jpg022a_20200224_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_186Tango dancer, Iara Duarte, 22 has confected by her mother Irma a new dress at their clothes factory in the Once district of Buenos Aires city, Argentina https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/018a_20161204_arg_bsas_0438.jpg018a_20161204_arg_bsas_0438Cyclists and pedestrians travel under a railway bridge where painted walls depict three couples dancing Tango in Buenos Aires city, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/019a_20161203_arg_bsas_0362.jpg019a_20161203_arg_bsas_0362Mural painted onto side of building depicting the great modernist Tango maestro Astor Piazzolla, Buenos Aires city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/020a_20200216_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_174.jpg020a_20200216_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_174Tango dancers Fernanda Valenzuela and Darío Alzugaray in a live performance at "Bar Sur" in the San Telmo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/032a_20200222_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_056.jpg032a_20200222_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_056Interior of Bar Sur, a famous Tango bar with a prominent painting of legendary Carlos Gardel, a French - Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor, and arguably the most prominent figure in the history of tango. Gardel's baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics made miniature masterpieces of his hundreds of three-minute tango recordings. Together with lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20200222_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_049-2.jpg20200222_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_049-2Angi Ordoñez and Nicolás Sambucetti in a live performance at "Bar Sur" in San Telmo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/015a_20200302_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_141.jpg015a_20200302_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_141Tango dancer Iara Duarte, 22 preparing for a performance in a stunning dress, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/023a_20200221_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_041.jpg023a_20200221_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_041The Tango venue known as "La Catedral del Tango" in the Almagro district is considered one of the most eccentric and grungiest of places where a very authentic atmosphere has been created to showcase the best of Tango in the city. Founded in 1998 by two aficionados of the musical expression in what used to be an old abandoned factory in a working class neighbourhood of the city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/025a_20200307_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_0013-Edit.jpgTango dancers prepare for a rehearsal.Tango dancers Jesus Paez, 34 and Iara Duarte, 22 preparing for a dance performance at La Catedral del Tango, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/024a_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_372.jpg024a_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_372Tango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 dancing in the courtyard of the Ezeiza family estate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/026a_20200307_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_0481.jpg026a_20200307_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_0481Tango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 rehearse a dance routine at La Catedral del Tango social club, before a live show later that night, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/027a_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_735.jpg027a_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_735Tango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 rehearse a dance routine at La Catedral del Tango social club, before a live show later that night, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/028a_20161204_arg_bsas_0444.jpg028a_20161204_arg_bsas_0444A woman walks past a city mural depicting sitting Tango dance couples, Buenos Aires. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/029a_20200307_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_0749.jpg029a_20200307_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_0749The Tango venue known as "La Catedral del Tango" considered one of the most eccentric and grungiest of places where a very authentic atmosphere has been created to showcase the best of Tango in the city. Founded in 1998 by two aficionados of the musical expression in what used to be an abandoned factory in a working class neighbourhood. All items in this cavernous "cathedral" found their final resting place from recycled materials in skips to become tables, benches, chairs, bottles. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/030a_20200224_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_377.jpg030a_20200224_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_377The lined walls of "Cafe de Garcia", one of a number of well known and atmospheric "old" traditional cafes of Buenos Aires. Seen here a collection of photographs and drawings of famous Tango icons, amongst them Carlos Gardel, Aníbal Troilo, Roberto Goyeneche and signed photographs of and by Diego Maradona including a national team shirt from the 1986 World Cup in México. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/031a_20161204_arg_bsas_0467.jpg031a_20161204_arg_bsas_0467A jogger runs past a street mural of Tango legend Carlos Gardel in Buenos Aires city. Carlos Gardel was a French - Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor, and arguably the most prominent figure in the history of tango. Gardel's baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics made miniature masterpieces of his hundreds of three-minute tango recordings. Together with lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/033a_20200215_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_083.jpg033a_20200215_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_083Mural art painted on a front door of a private house in Almagro neighbourhood of legendary French - Argentine Carlos Gardel, a singer, songwriter, composer and actor, and arguably the most prominent figure in the history of tango. Gardel's baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics made miniature masterpieces of his hundreds of three-minute tango recordings. Together with lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/034a_20200304_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_001.jpgA cathedral to Tango.The Tango venue known as "La Catedral del Tango" in the Almagro district is considered one of the most eccentric and grungiest of places where a very authentic atmosphere has been created to showcase the best of Tango in the city. Founded in 1998 by two aficionados of the musical expression in what used to be an old abandoned factory in a working class neighbourhood of the city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/035a_20200306_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_381.jpg035a_20200306_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_381Dancers Ariel Leguizamón and Yesica Esquivel in a live performance of Mauro Caiazza's Tango Freestyle created show held at the grungy, cavernous and unique La Catedral del Tango social club, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/036a_20200226_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_128.jpg036a_20200226_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_128Dancers Mauro Caiazza, 34 and Marcela Vespasiano, 39 rehearsing Mauro's "Tango Freestyle" creation in the grungy and unique La Catedral del Tango with an oversized portrait of Argentina's most revered Tango legend Carlos Gardel. Mauro's style of Tango is a modern interpretation incorporating Breakdance, Hop-Hop and classic Tango movements. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/41https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/037a_20200304_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_315.jpg037a_20200304_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_315Dancers Mauro Caiazza, 34 and Marcela Vespasiano, 39 rehearsing Mauro's "Tango Freestyle" creation in the grungy and unique La Catedral del Tango with an oversized portrait of Argentina's most revered Tango legend Carlos Gardel. Mauro's style of Tango is a modern interpretation incorporating Breakdance, Hop-Hop and classic Tango movements. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/42https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/038a_20200306_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_256.jpg038a_20200306_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_256Dancers Mauro Caiazza, 34 and Marcela Vespasiano, 39 in a live performance of Mauro's "Tango Freestyle" creation in the grungy and unique La Catedral del Tango. Mauro's style of Tango is a modern high octane interpretation incorporating Breakdance, Hop-Hop and classic Tango movements. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/43https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/039a_20200227_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_398.jpg039a_20200227_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_398Dancers Mauro Caiazza, 34 and Marcela Vespasiano, 39 in a live performance of Mauro's "Tango Freestyle" creation in the grungy and unique La Catedral del Tango. Mauro's style of Tango is a modern high octane interpretation incorporating Breakdance, Hop-Hop and classic Tango movements. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/44https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/040a_20200306_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_607.jpg040a_20200306_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_607Dancers Mauro Caiazza, 34 and Marcela Vespasiano, 39 in a live performance of Mauro's "Tango Freestyle" creation in the grungy and unique La Catedral del Tango. Mauro's style of Tango is a modern high octane interpretation incorporating Breakdance, Hop-Hop and classic Tango movements. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/45https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/041a_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_411.jpg041a_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_411Tango dancers, Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 in final preparations for a Tango performance at La Catedral del Tango social club in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/46https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/042a_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_630.jpg042a_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_630Tango dancers, Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 in a shared moment of intimacy before a live performance at La Catedral del Tango social club, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/47https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/043a_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_640.jpg043a_20200229_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_640Tango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 rehearse a dance routine at La Catedral del Tango social club, before a live show later that night, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/48https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/044a_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_501.jpg044a_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_501Tango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 dancing in the courtyard of the Ezeiza family estate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/49https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_839a.jpg20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_839aTango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 depart company after dancing the night away at a Tango club, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Argentina---The-woman-in-the-red-dress/50https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/045a_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_729.jpg045a_20200309_Tango_BsAs_Argentina_729Tango dancers Iara Duarte, 22 and Jesus Paez, 34 depart company after dancing the night away at a Tango club, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Brazil_Parintins_Carnival_1998.pngTEXT_Brazil_Parintins_Carnival_1998 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0001.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0001Parintins - On the island of Tupinambarana, on the Amazon river, 370 Kms east of Manaus city lies a sleepy town which explodes into life for a three day musical and dance extravaganza. Dozens of ferry boats carry visitors from across Brazil to experience this exotic dreamscape and party. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0002.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0002Parintins - Three central figures in the Amazonian mythology that is re-enacted in the form of the Bumba Meu Boi festival between the two competing teams of Garantido and Caprichoso. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0003.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0003Parintins - Local supporters dressed in the red colours of Garantido, enjoy the explosion of colour and life during the three day event. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0004.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0004Men construct the many large floats for the celebrations of the Boi Bumba carnival in Parintins. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between two opposing Ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0005.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0005Men construct the many large floats for the celebrations of the Boi Bumba carnival in Parintins. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between two opposing Ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. Each team will spend millions of dollars in the construction of the floats and the costumes worn by the thousands of participants. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0006.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0006Men construct the many large floats for the celebrations of the Boi Bumba carnival in Parintins. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between two opposing Ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. Each team will spend millions of dollars in the construction of the floats and the costumes worn by the thousands of participants. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0007.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0007Men construct the many large floats for the celebrations of the Boi Bumba carnival in Parintins. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between two opposing Ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. Each team will spend millions of dollars in the construction of the floats and the costumes worn by the thousands of participants. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0008.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0008Men construct the many large floats for the celebrations of the Boi Bumba carnival in Parintins. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between two opposing Ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. Each team will spend millions of dollars in the construction of the floats and the costumes worn by the thousands of participants. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0009.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0009Keeping the floats under wraps till the celebrations begin. Men construct the many large floats for the celebrations of the Boi Bumba carnival in Parintins. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between two opposing Ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. Each team will spend millions of dollars in the construction of the floats and the costumes worn by the thousands of participants. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0010.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0010Parintins - A man paints the mythological figure of the most beautiful indigenous woman, known as the "Cunha Poranga" on a wall. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0011.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0011A caterpillar exits a huge warehouse / hanger where many men have finished constructing this tropical beast for the Boi Bumba carnival in Parintins. The event serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between two opposing Ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. Each team will spend millions of dollars in the construction of the floats and the costumes worn by the thousands of participants. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0012.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0012An oversized scorpion exits a huge warehouse / hanger where many men have finished constructing this tropical beast for the Boi Bumba carnival in Parintins. The event serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between two opposing Ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. Each team will spend millions of dollars in the construction of the floats and the costumes worn by the thousands of participants. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0013.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0013A caterpillar exits a huge warehouse / hanger where many men have finished constructing this tropical beast for the Boi Bumba carnival in Parintins. The event serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between two opposing Ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. Each team will spend millions of dollars in the construction of the floats and the costumes worn by the thousands of participants. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0014.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0014On the Island of Tupinambarana, where the "Boi Bumba" Carnival takes place every June the island's population become fanatical for one of the two teams that take part in the three day event. Here girls dress all in red to show allegiance to the red bull known as " Garantido". The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between to opposing bulls, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0015.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0015The "Cunha Poranga", the Carnival queen dances to an infectious rhythm to celebrate the three day event deep in the Amazon. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between to opposing ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0016.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0016Young girls have tattoos painted onto bodies to celebrate the Boi Bumba carnival. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between to opposing ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0017.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0017A scene by Caprichoso team where a group of indian tribes re-enact scenes of daily life. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0019.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0019The "Cunha Poranga", the Carnival queen dances to an infectious rhythm to celebrate the three day event deep in the Amazon. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between to opposing ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0018.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0018The Garantido team enter the hot and humid arena with a fiery mythological dragon and indian tribe dancers to woo and enchant the spectators. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0020.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0020The Boi Bumba carnival and the dance of the "Caprichoso" ox to infectious percussive rhythm celebrate the three day event deep in the Amazon. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between two opposing ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0021.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0021A young family sitting in their street stall, supporters of Garantido team. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0022.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0022Supporters of Garantido team. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0024.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0024On the dusty streets of Parintins Marion das Neves heads to the amphitheatre with his homemade amazonian costume. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0023.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0023On the streets of Parintins supporters and revelers get into the spirit of the hot and humid occasion. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0025.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0025An oversized scorpion is cannibalised or stripped of all its artistry the day after the conclusion of the "Bumba Meu Boi" festival. The carnival serves to celebrate and re-enact Indian traditions and perpetuate myths and legends. It has evolved over time and involves the battle between to opposing ox, known as Garantido and Caprichoso. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---An-Amazon-"Rave"/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0026.jpgBrazil_Amazonian_Carnival_0026A giant hand from a dismembered float is removed as a token memento of three days of fantasy in Parintins. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_ElSalvador_Anamoros_for_website_2023.pngTEXT_ElSalvador_Anamoros_for_website_2023 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0001.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0001The village of Anamoros is 200 Kms north of San Salvador on a very poorly maintained rock and dirt road close to the Honduran border. The year is 1990. El Salvador is still living through a violent and deadly civil war – 75.000 dead and counting. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0002.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0002The village of Anamoros is 200 Kms north of San Salvador on a very poorly maintained rock and dirt road close to the Honduran border. The year is 1990. El Salvador is still living through a violent and deadly civil war – 75.000 dead and counting https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0003.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0003The village of Anamoros is 200 Kms north of San Salvador on a very poorly maintained rock and dirt road close to the Honduran border. The year is 1990. El Salvador is still living through a violent and deadly civil war – 75.000 dead and counting. Seen here Mauricio Reyes returns home after having spent the day tending to his crops in the countryside. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0004.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0004In Anamoros' village square passengers are greeted by locals selling water, ice cream, cooked corn, bread. This bus service, like others connects the capital San Salvador with the remotes villages across the country. It is the principal and cheapest mode of transport. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0005.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0005The village of Anamoros is 200 Kms north of San Salvador on a very poorly maintained rock and dirt road close to the Honduran border. The year is 1990. El Salvador is still living through a violent and deadly civil war – 75.000 dead and counting. Yet life continues as normal as it can, villagers seen in the central square waiting for the arrival of the local bus service. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0006.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0006Vaqueros, farm workers prepare to saddle up for the day ahead in Anamoros village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0007.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0007Julio Alvarez rides through Anamoros village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0008.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0008In Anamoros village, Alfonso Treminio having his hair and beard trimmed.Anamoros is 200 Kms north of San Salvador on a very poorly maintained rock and dirt road close to the Honduran border. The year is 1990. El Salvador is still living through a violent and deadly civil war – 75.000 dead and counting https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0009.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0009In the village of Anamoros, a young Maria Saravia Garcia anxiously prepares for her wedding ceremony to be held in the village's main church. Life continues amidst an ongoing civil war. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0010.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0010A boy runs across Anamoros' central square during a ferocious late summer downpour. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0011.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0011In Anamoros village, Estéban Medrano plays with his young grandson Anselmo. Life continues amidst an ongoing civil war. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0012.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0012Family and friends assist in the funeral of Carmela Velazquez. Life continues amidst an ongoing civil war. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0013.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0013Amidst an ongoing civil war, two campesinos, farm workers unload the recently harvested maize to sell in the Sunday morning market in Anamoros village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0014.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0014Cattle ranchers come into Anamoros village to buy and sell their cattle to other ranchers or butchers, amidst an ongoing civil war. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0015.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0015Slaughterhouse workers butchering recently bought cattle in Anamoros. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0016.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0016A tropical downpour pummels Anamoros village leaving it completely deserted. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0017.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0017After the storm has passed a villager ventures out into the rain soaked streets of Anamoros village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0018.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0018Amidst the ongoing civil war, twice yearly Nueva Esparta villagers gather to watch and participate in the "Corrida de cintas", where the galloping horse riders must insert a pencil through a hanging ring that straddles the street. The token prize was to buy a Coca-Cola for a local beauty, who in turn rewards the rider with a kiss. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0019.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0019Amidst the ongoing civil war, twice yearly Nueva Esparta villagers gather to watch and participate in the "Corrida de cintas", where the galloping horse riders must insert a pencil through a hanging ring that straddles the street. The token prize was to buy a Coca-Cola for a local beauty, who in turn rewards the rider with a kiss. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/El-Salvador---Peace-in-the-eye-of-war/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/El_Salvador_Anamoros_0020.jpgEl_Salvador_Anamoros_0020The village of Nueva Esparta is 210 Kms north of San Salvador on a very poorly maintained rock and dirt road close to the Honduran border. The year is 1990. El Salvador is still living through a violent and deadly civil war – 75.000 dead and counting. A general scene of life in the village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_TIBET_PanchenLama_for_website_2023.pngTEXT_TIBET_PanchenLama_for_website_2023 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0001.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0001An imposing view of the vast Tashi Lhunpo Monastery that dominates the scene of Shigatse, Tibet's second city. The monastery is the spiritual and physical seat of the Panchen Lama, which is Tibet's second holiest cleric in the country after the exiled Dalai Lama. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0002.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0002Pilgrims and monks arrive at Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, which is the spiritual and physical seat of the Panchen Lama, being Tibet's second holiest cleric after the exiled Dalai Lama, but the maximum spiritual leader in the country. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0003.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0003A photograph of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima sits at the base of a huge oversized Buddha inside the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Tibet's spiritual and physical seat of Tibetan Buddhism. The young six year old was chosen by senior Buddhist clerics and the exiled Dalai Lama, after a five year search. He was abducted three days after being anointed - in May 1995 - by the Chinese government, and has never been seen again. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0004.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0004A monk tends to the altar at the feet of a huge Buddha at the entrance to Tashi Lhunpo monastery in the city of Shigatse. The large photograph is that of 10th Panchen Lama, Choekyi Gyaltsen who died in suspicious circumstances in 1989. The photograph on the right is that of Gyaincain Norbu, the six year old "chosen" by Beijing, after ordering the abduction of the anointed Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who's search lasted five years by senior clerics in Tibet and approved by the exiled Dalai Lama. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0005.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0005A photograph of Gyaincain Norbu sits at the base of a huge oversized Buddha inside the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Tibet's spiritual and physical seat of its religion. The young six year old was swapped by the Chinese state, in May 1995, three days after abducting Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who had been chosen by senior buddhist clerics and approved by the Dalai Lama. Nyima and his family have never been heard of since, but assume he is living somewhere in China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0006.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0006The army and military police keep a close watch on life and the expressions of Buddhism in the city of Shigatse. The spiritual and physical seat of the Panchen Lama, Tibet's holiest cleric. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0007.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0007Pilgrims travel the main road that links Lhasa and Shigatse cities, as they head to Tashi Lhunpo monastery, Tibet's physical and spiritual seat of Buddhism. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0008.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0008Sun and Moon symbols painted onto the front door of peoples homes, represents allegiance to the Dalai and Panchen Lamas in Tibet. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0009.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0009Magical powers are said to reside in the shrouded Yamdrok lake at 4488 meters above sea level. After the sudden death of the 10th Panchen Lama in 1989, the search for the reborn Panchen Lama began with monks interpreting water reflections as clues to the region in which the child could be found. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0010.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0010Monks and pilgrims walk through the many alleyways inside the sprawling Tashi Lhunpo monastery, Shigatse city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0011.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0011Monks gather inside the Assembly Hall of Sera Monastery, outside Lhasa to chant and drink tea four times a month. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0012.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0012Tibetan monks in Jokhang Temple, Lhasa city perform "Pujas" which are special ceremonies in which prayers are offered to the Buddha and other deities to request help, to receive blessings, and to purify obstacles due to past karma or actions. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0013.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0013A monk tends to the altar at the feet of the Maitreya, a huge Buddha at the entrance to Tashi Lhunpo monastery in the city of Shigatse. The large photograph is that of 10th Panchen Lama, Choekyi Gyaltsen who died in suspicious circumstances in 1989. The photograph on the right is that of Gyaincain Norbu, the six year old "chosen" by Beijing, after ordering the abduction of the anointed Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who's search lasted five years by senior clerics in Tibet and approved by the exiled Dalai Lama. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0014.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0014Pilgrims queue to enter Tashi Lhunpo monastery, Shigatse city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0015.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0015Pilgrims arrive exhausted after days on the road to reach the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0016.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0016Pilgrims pray and chant after arriving exhausted from days of traveling to reach the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0017.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0017Pilgrims and monks pray and chant around two small stupas within the grounds of Tashi Lhunpo monastery, Shigatse city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0018.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0018Monks inside the walls of the vast Tashi Lhunpo monastery collect water and go about their daily chores. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0019.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0019Monks arrive at the vast Ganden monastery which lies at 4500 meters above sea level. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0020.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0020Pilgrims burning Juniper leaves, for good fortune, outside the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa city, capital of Tibet https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0021.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0021Pilgrims arrive, often exhausted, at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa from across the vast territory of Tibet https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0022.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0022Monks arriving at Tashi Lhunpo monastery, Shigatse city, the seat of the Panchen Lama. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0023.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0023The 275 Km dusty earth road that link Shigatse and Lhasa cities. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0024.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0024Farmers and pilgrims walk along the 275 Km dusty earth road that link Lhasa to Shigatse cities https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0025.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0025Villagers from Dongsa sift wheat from its chaff after the late summer harvest and before the snow covered winter sets in for the many months ahead. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0026.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0026Villagers from Dongsa sift wheat from its chaff after the late summer harvest and before the snow covered winter sets in for the many months ahead. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0027.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0027Pilgrims walk past houses where the Sun and Moon symbols are painted onto the front door of peoples homes, representing allegiance to the Dalai and Panchen Lamas in Tibet. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0028.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0028Sun and Moon symbols painted onto the front door of peoples homes, represents allegiance to the Dalai and Panchen Lamas in Tibet. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0029.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0029The Potala Palace is a dzong fortress in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959, has been a museum since then, and a World Heritage Site since 1994. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0030.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0030Monks arriving at Tashi Lhunpo monastery, Shigatse city, the seat of the Panchen Lama. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10081106.jpgCPA-10081106On the streets of Shigatse city locals go about their shopping amidst a constant sense of unease towards and being watched over by the authorities. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0031.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0031A temple in the heart of Lhasa destroyed during Mao's Cultural Revolution. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10083099.jpgCPA-10083099Daily life in Shigatse city. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0032.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0032Pilgrims and locals walk the streets of Shigatse city https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0033.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0033Dempa Kelsan attend to arriving refugee monks and other Tibetan's in a documentation center in Kathmandu, Nepal. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Tibet---Who-is-the-real-child-God?/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Tibet_Panchen_Lama_0034.jpgTibet_Panchen_Lama_0034Tibetan's go about their daily life in the town of Ganden with its imposing monastery. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Bangladesh_water_for_website_2023_1.pngTEXT_Bangladesh_water_for_website_2023_1 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0001.jpgBangladesh_Water_0001A seemingly idyllic scene at the edges of Chandpur town is seriously threatened by climate change and rising water levels which in turn, lead to significant soil and land erosion. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0002.jpgBangladesh_Water_0002In the village of Maghay, 30 Kms north of Sirajganj on the edges of the Brahmaputra river Fatima Khatun returns to her flooded family home with her five month old son on a banana raft. This is an ever increasing issue for her and millions in low lying Bangladesh, which is prone and vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0003.jpgBangladesh_Water_0003A tradesman travels up the Dakayatia River during a torrential downpour, close to Chandpur town which is also threatened by massive soil erosion. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0004.jpgBangladesh_Water_0004A cyclist braves a torrential downpour in Barisal.' https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0005.jpgBangladesh_Water_0005On the Kirton Khola river coal diggers recover tons of coal that was dumped by the British during their colonial rule in the region. They earn about one pound per day. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0006.jpgBangladesh_Water_0006On the banks of the Turag river, 50 Kms north of Dhaka, day labourers unload tons of sand and wood logs off river barges for construction purposes, earning an english pound a day. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0007.jpgBangladesh_Water_0007A farmer pulls a cart with recently harvested bags of rice to the local market in Shariakandi. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0008.jpgBangladesh_Water_0008Men, women and some children unload stones from a Brahmaputra river vessel to shore up washed away roads and river banks due to the vulnerability Bangladesh has with rising sea levels and climate change. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0009.jpgBangladesh_Water_0009Severe soil and land erosion where the river Meghna and Padma (Ganges) meet before continuing their journey into the Bay of Bengal. In the process the river has washed away large amounts of dry land, thirty buildings, including a school, factories and private housing (at the time of working on this project). https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0010.jpgBangladesh_Water_0010Men and mostly women queue up to buy water at a street water pump due to the lack of running water in peoples simple straw huts. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0011.jpgBangladesh_Water_0011In the flooded village of Khulna Joynob Bibi and her young daughter Rahila going to collect water whilst Rexona looks absently into space. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0012.jpgBangladesh_Water_0012Female labourers laying foundations of stone, broken bricks and sand on a road severely damaged from regular flooding. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0013.jpgBangladesh_Water_0013Under torrential rain passengers crowd onto a river "bus" to get across Dakayatia river at Chandpur town. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0014.jpgBangladesh_Water_0014Father and son fishing in a flooded rice field. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0015.jpgBangladesh_Water_0015Banargati villagers are harvesting and processing Jute under a cotton tree in flooded fields. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0016.jpgBangladesh_Water_0016Women wait on the edge of raised bank to cross a flooded field on a small dugout to reach their isolated hut. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0017.jpgBangladesh_Water_0017On the banks of the Turag river, 50 Kms north of Dhaka, day labourers unload tons of sand and wood logs off river barges for construction purposes, earning an english pound a day. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0018.jpgBangladesh_Water_0018Jabar Hawlder being lovingly washed by his wife Royka Khatun on the banks of the Rupsa river. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0019.jpgFishing on the Pankali river 1990, BangladeshFishing on the Pankali river (between Khulna and Barisal). https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0020.jpgBangladesh_Water_0020Villagers collecting water and washing their kitchen pots on the river Kirton Khola at Barisal. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0021.jpgBangladesh_Water_0021On the Kirton Khola river coal diggers recover tons of coal that was dumped by the British during their colonial rule in the region. They earn about one pound per day. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0022.jpgBangladesh_Water_0022A village scene in Rajarkalta, 120 Kms northwest of Dhaka where a small commune of families share the open spaces around their straw huts and spend time repairing their homes just before the start of the Rice and Jute harvesting season. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0023.jpgBangladesh_Water_0023Farmer plowing a Rice paddy. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0024.jpgBangladesh_Water_0024In the village of Tajpur women sift Rice grains from the husks, during the harvesting season, working twelve hours a day for one pound a day. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0025.jpgBangladesh_Water_0025Farmer Abdul Hossein together with friends and neighbours harvest his Jute crop for sale in the local market. People tend to help each other out during the harvesting season. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0026.jpgBangladesh_Water_0026Parvin Akhatar crosses a flooded Rice field on a banana raft with her sheep, which she is taking to the local market for sale, whilst Atauar Rahman is washing recently harvested Jute and other women look on. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Bangladesh---Water-and-climate-change/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Bangladesh_Water_0027.jpgBangladesh_Water_0027Young men and children sleep rough on the streets of Dhaka city and on the banks of the Patuakhali river on open air boats. Poverty and homelessness are very common in a constantly shifting population due to adverse weather events and natural disasters. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_India_Bishnoi_for_website_2023a.pngTEXT_India_Bishnoi_for_website_2023a https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0001.jpgAshes under Khejeri tree, 1991 RajasthanSurji, a Bishnoi throws ash under a Khejeri tree in the village of Rawar, which to this farming caste from Rajasthan is considered a holy tree. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0002.jpgCollecting Water, Rajasthan 1991Women of the Bishnoi caste from Rajasthan, appear to do the heavy lifting of work around the home, collecting water and trending to the fields and animals. Seen her in the village of Bhagatashi, collecting water at a public well together with young children. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0003.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0003In the village of Rawar women appear to do all the heavy lifting and hard work around the home, water collection, tending to their farm animals and serving the men folk of the household. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0004.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0004Surji, a Bishnoi throws ash under a Khejeri tree in the village of Rawar, which to this farming caste from Rajasthan is considered a holy tree. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0005.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0005In the village of Rawar, Bhyima Ram and a family relative conduct an age old Rajasthani tradition of conducting an Opium ceremony together with friends and neighbours. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0006.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0006Bhyma Ram, a Rajasthani farmer spins cotton to make a bed in Rawar village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0007.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0007Bishnoi women sharing a brief moment of laughter in Rawar village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0008.jpgWomen Collecting Water, No2, Rajasthan - IndiaWomen of the Bishnoi caste from Rajasthan, appear to do the heavy lifting of work around the home, collecting water and trending to the fields and animals. Seen her in the village of Bhagatashi, collecting water at a public well. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0009.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0009Men folk of the Bishnoi caste appears to spend large amount of time sitting around whilst the women do the heavy lifting tending to the home, cooking, farm animals and water collection. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0010.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0010A peaceful rural scene in the village of Rawar, Rajasthan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0011.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0011In the village of Peench women collect water from a reservoir. Water collection is the preserve of women's work. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0012.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0012Samu removes lice from her mother's hair, Rawar village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0013.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0013Aparna, a Bishnoi from Rawar village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0014.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0014Sisters Bhawari and Samu, Rawar village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0015.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0015In the village of Peench women collect water from a reservoir. Water collection is the preserve of women's work. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0016.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0016Women of the Bishnoi caste from Rajasthan, appear to do the heavy lifting of work around the home, collecting water and trending to the fields and animals. Seen her in Bhagatashi, having collecting water at a public well, walk through the village whilst the men look on. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0017.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0017Bishnoi village elders sit around during a Muclava wedding ceremony. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0018.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0018Henna painted feet and bedecked in silver bangles. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0019.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0019Rajasthani man checks the quality of the cotton of new Sari fabric. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/India---The-Bishnoi/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/India_Bishnoi_0020.jpgIndia_Bishnoi_0020A Muclava wedding ceremony in Peech village, Rajasthan. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Philippines_BB_for_website_2023a.pngTEXT_Philippines_BB_for_website_2023a https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0001.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesAn idyllic looking scene over Gumacas bay as seen from the small fishing village of Busok Busok, Philippines https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0002.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesThe fishing village of Busok Busok (approx. pop: 1800), in Gumacas bay, Aurora province. A two day drive north east of Manila. Seen here with a brewing storm, a region noted for its deadly typhoons, also known as typhoon alley. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0003.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0003Mayor Reinaldo Bitong of Casiguran Town, Aurora province in a banka fishing boat, surrounded by his permanent bodyguards as he visits one of the 24 villages under his jurisdiction. He needs this level of security because he regularly receives death threats from the largest logging company IDC, Industrial Development Corporation for his stance he takes on the illegal logging of the forest in the region. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0004.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesStanding at the remains of Busokbusok's pier, previously destroyed by a Typhoon, a heavy brooding storm gathers strength for an imminent tropical storm. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0005.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesRene and Myla Marano and family live in a roofless wooden hut on stilts directly above the seawater over Gumacas bay. They lost their roof in the last typhoon to hit the village and spent over a year, for the lack of money without a roof. When he gets work he earns about U$S 1-2 / day. This region is known as "typhoon alley" due to the frequent, destructive and deadly tropical storms to hit this area. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0006.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0006A massive tropical storm breaks over Gumacas bay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0007.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0007AGTAS (Aboriginal natives, related to Pygmies) hunt fish with home made harpoons and coconut carved goggles in Gumacas bay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0008.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesMyla Maraño, an AGTA (an Aboriginal / native) and her children sit on the floor of their roofless hut in Busokbusok fishing village. Myla seen her sifting rice for their lunch, whilst the children play. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0009.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0009Remedios de la Cruz bathes her young son Merryl, 3 with a bucket of fresh water in Busokbusok village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0010.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesNestor and Rebeca Leron with their children and family in the front room of their hut separate and select the vegetables produced from their plot of land to sell at Casiguran Market a 15 minute boat ride from Busokbusok fishing village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0011.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesA house and washing line in the fishing village of Busokbusok. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0012.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesBorseg Lisiday and Nathan Prado, both AGTAS (Aboriginals) hunt fish with home made harpoons in Gumacas bay near Busokbusok village in what is known as "typhoon alley" due to the frequent and deadly typhoons that hit the region. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0013.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0013Fishing at dawn in Gumacas bay with the Sierra Madre mountain range visible in the background. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0014.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesYoung happy children run away from school, as lessons are over in the small fishing community of Busokbusok. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0016.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0016Young girls in a science lesson at Francisco Benitez primary school, Busokbusok village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0017.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesA tropical storm brews in Gumacas bay in what is known as "typhoon alley" in north eastern Philippines near Busokbusok village a region frequently hit by deadly and violent typhoons. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0018.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0018Villagers celebrate mass to honour St. George day, the patron saint of Busokbusok village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0019.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0019Buses and trucks weighed down with passengers and goods cross a swollen river during the rainy and typhoon season. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0020.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesA massive tropical storm breaks over Busok Busok fishing village and Gumacas bay in north eastern Philippines as a fisherman pulls in his boat. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0021.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesA group of fishermen and women go out in a large banka to fish with nets. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0022.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesFishing at dawn in Gumacas bay with the Sierra Madre mountain range visible in the background. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0023.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesVicente Caparas, 74 the oldest resident of Busok Busok. He arrived in the village, before it was such in 1964. He was both a fisherman, farmer and for a time earned his living recycling Gin bottles. Today he is blind and can only enjoy listing to the radio. He says of living in BB: no one dies with eyes open in Busokbusok, meaning that there is no reason to go hungry in the village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0024.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesBabi Baldo and Conrado Barrera sing "My way" and other songs at Boyetas Karaoke bar with children and adults looking on, Busokbusok village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0025.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesFranscisco Aranas enjoys a laugh at a Karaoke bar in Busokbusok village. Unhealthy teeth hygiene leads many to lose their teeth prematurely. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0026.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0026Fishermen in Gumacas bay and the Sierra Madre mountain range at dawn after having spent the whole night fishing, Aurora province. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0027.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0027In a small village live a tiny community of native (aboriginal) people known as AGTAS. Seen here is Borseg Lisiday and his wife Batangas and their extended family, Gumacas bay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0028.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0028AGTAS (Aboriginal natives, related to pygmies) hunt fish with home made harpoons and coconut carved goggles in Gumacas bay. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0030.jpgPhilippines_Typhoon_0030Pedro "Endoi" Beltran, 67 sleeps and often walks with Philippine peso coins stuck in his ears as a strange eccentric habit. Often to be able to give change to his taxi boat passengers, a service from his vilage to the closest town Casiguran. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0029.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesBabi Baldo sleeps a siesta in the blistering afternoon hot and humid heat. of the village. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Philippines----Waiting-for-the-Typhoon/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Philippines_Typhoon_0031.jpgWaiting for the Typhoon, Busok Busok, PhilippinesA fisherman surveys a tropical storm brewing in Gumacas bay in what is known as "typhoon alley" in north eastern Philippines near Busokbusok village. A region frequently hit by deadly and violent typhoons. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Brazil_Cocoa_for_website_2023a.pngTEXT_Brazil_Cocoa_for_website_2023a https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0001.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0001The principal ranch house on "Fazenda Princesa", an old Cocoa ranch plantation in southern Bahia shrouded in early morning mist. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0002.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0002Cocoa labourers on Fazenda Princesa, descendants of slaves meet at 7 AM before heading out to the cocoa plantation to begin the harvesting, drying the beans and working in the oven. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0003.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0003Cocoa labourers cutting down pods in their morning harvest on Fazenda Princesa in southern Bahia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0004.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0004Cocoa labourers cutting down pods in their morning harvest on Fazenda Princesa in southern Bahia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0005.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0005A cocoa worker hold up two pods to show the difference between a healthy one and another infected by "Witches broom" or Vassoura da Bruxa, a fungus that in the late 1990's decimated 70% of Brazil's cocoa plantations. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0006.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0006A cocoa worker spreads raw beans on the flat roof of a building before it is then placed on another flat roof of what is called the "estufa" or stove, which in effect is a huge "oven" to complete the drying process before the cocoa beans are bagged for sale in the local co-operative. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0007.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0007Julio and Doña Anezia, cocoa worker of 60 years on Fazenda Princesa, spreads raw beans on the floor of a building called the "estufa" or stove, which in effect is a huge "oven" to complete the drying process before the cocoa beans are bagged for sale in the local co-operative. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0008.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0008A cocoa worker spreads raw beans on the flat roof of a building before it is then placed on another flat roof of what is called the "estufa" or stove, which in effect is a huge "oven" to complete the drying process before the cocoa beans are bagged for sale in the local co-operative. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0009.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0009A cocoa worker spreads raw beans on the flat roof of a building before it is then placed on another flat roof of what is called the "estufa" or stove, which in effect is a huge "oven" to complete the drying process before the cocoa beans are bagged for sale in the local co-operative. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0010.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0010Julio and Doña Anezia, cocoa worker of 60 years on Fazenda Princesa, spreads raw beans on the floor of a building called the "estufa" or stove, which in effect is a huge "oven" to complete the drying process before the cocoa beans are bagged for sale in the local co-operative. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0011.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0011Julio, a cocoa worker of 60 years on Fazenda Princesa, spreads raw beans on the flat roof of a building before it is then placed on another flat roof of what is called the "estufa" or stove, which in effect is a huge "oven" to complete the drying process before the cocoa beans are bagged for sale in the local co-operative. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0012.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0012Julio, a cocoa labourer of 60 years at "Fazenda Princesa" spreads raw beans on the flat roof of a building before it is then placed on another flat roof of what is called the "estufa" or stove, which in effect is a huge "oven" to complete the roasting process before the cocoa beans are bagged for sale in the local co-operative. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0013.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0013Julio, a cocoa labourer of 60 years having a boil removed from his neck by a fellow worker in "Fazenda Princesa" in Bahia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0014.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0014The village of Contas where many cocoa labourers live in southern Bahia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0015.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0015An impoverished cocoa worker preparing to leave his modest house for work on "Fazenda Princesa". https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0016.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0016Farm labourer cutting down undergrowth around the cocoa bushes of southern Bahia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0017.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0017Farmer cuts down tropical tree in jungle opening in Cocoa growing region, southern Bahia https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0018.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0018Villagers and farmers use the banks of the Contas river in southern Bahia for many activities, such as fishing, washing clothes and animal carcasses. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0019.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0019Village life. Farm workers come together for a drink and some village life gossip, Rio Preto, southern Bahia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0020.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0020Impoverished farm workers mill Manioc into flour on "Fazenda Princesa". https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0021.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0021Impoverished family and farm life, where Enrique is having his hair cut. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0022.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0022Julio and Anezia stand in front of their small religious altar inside their modest home on "Fazenda Princesa", Bahia. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0023.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0023The "Caruru fiesta", where adults and children sing, chant and eat to drum beats, "Fazenda Princesa". https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0024.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0024In the absence of real dentist and in most part due to widespread poverty and remoteness of village life in Bahia, Marlon is a travelling "amateur" dentist, who is really a cocoa labourer, but doubles up as a dentist and travels from village to village or hamlet to hamlet extracting rotten teeth from impoverished workers, young and old, who can not afford to visit a real dentist. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Brazil---Bitter-Harvest/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Brazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0025.jpgBrazil_Bahia_Cocoa_0025Impoverished living in rural Bahia, where much of the Cocoa industry is based . https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_OtherProjects_website_2023.pngTEXT_OtherProjects_website_2023 https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/argentina_jujuy_foot_1983.jpgargentina_jujuy_foot_1983Argentina - In the village of Casabindo the local Aymara community gather to celebrate the annual ceremony to the "Pachamama", rituals to pay thanks and gratitude to "Mother Earth" for the harvest and sustenance that their lands provide, Jujuy 1983. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10052790.jpgCPA-10052790A week-long series of processions made by various "cofradías" (parish brotherhoods) passing through the city of Seville marks one of the world's most famous Easter Festivals. With pointed hats reminiscent of the Klu Klux Klan, these eerie-looking people march day and night, Spain 1988. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Poland_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Poland_001Nova Huta Steel mill, outside Krakow, in the days of heavy industrial pollution, Poland, 1990. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Poland_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Poland_002Shafts of light penetrate the smoke and darkness inside a highly polluting Copper mill in Glogow, Poland, 1990. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Poland_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Poland_003Residents live side by side to the highly polluting Huta Bobrek Steel mill, Bytom - Katowice, Poland, 1990. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Poland_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Poland_004Dead pine forests inside the Karkonze mountain range caused by serious industrial pollution and Acid Rain, Poland, 1990. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Poland_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Poland_005In the shadows of Huta Pokoj Steel mill, residents live side by side to the highly polluting furnaces, Nowy Bytom, Poland, 1990. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_002With the downfall of Nicolae Ceausescu and the the Romanian revolution in full swing, residents of Bucharest celebrate the arrival of freedom and a new day, Romania, 1989. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_001The Romanian revolution and the downfall of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime, Bucharest, Romania, 1989. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_003.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_003Grieving women place lit candles onto the corpse of the first student to die as the Romanian revolution got underway with the eventual downfall of Nicolae Ceausescu, Bucharest, Romania, 1989. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_004Women stand and cheer in the street of Bucharest as tanks roll past heading back to their barracks after successfully overthrowing Nicolae Ceausescu during the Romanian revolution, Romania, 1989. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_005Woman cries at the funeral of the heroes of the Romanian revolution, Bucharest, Romania, 1989. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_Romania_006Morners at the funeral of the heroes of the Romanian revolution which saw the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu, Bucharest, Romania, 1989. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10188583.jpgCPA-10188583Vietnamese tram passengers, Ho Chi Minh city, formerly known as Saigon, 1985. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_002.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_002A young child plays on top of an abandoned American tank along Highway one, linking Hanoi with Saigon cities, Hue-Quang Tri, Vietnam, 1985. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10038741.jpgCPA-10038741Vietnamese troops at an army ceremony celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the ending of the American lead war. Hue city, 1985. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2019_Vietnam_004.jpgNewWebsite_2019_Vietnam_004To mark the 10th Anniversary of the ending of the Vietnam war, young women watch a military parade with images of Ho Chi Minh in the imperial city of Hue, 1985. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10038740.jpgCPA-10038740Travelling down the famous Highway one between Hue and Quan Tri cities, a young boy - metal dealer sits on top of a large mountain of mortar shells scrapping a living selling the remnants of the the Vietnam war. 1985 https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_001.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_001Boy and bicycle, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1985. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10038742.jpgCPA-10038742Busy street scene in Ho Chi Minh city, formerly known as Saigon in 1985. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2019_Vietnam_003.jpgNewWebsite_2019_Vietnam_003Under a rain soaked street cyclists get around Hanoi, Vietnam, 1985. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10188522.jpgCPA-10188522A young girl farmer looks after the family's buffalos in a field in Quan Tri province, Vietnam 1985. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10038739.jpgCPA-10038739On going reconstruction work of Hanoi city, 10 years after the ending of the Vietnam war. 1985. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10053188.jpgCPA-10053188Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón, a wealthy Spanish aristocrat in his extravagant Marbella residence, 1987. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_004.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_004Three sisters, Conchita, Isabel and María Neves take a look through a marquee window, Barcelona, Spain, 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10046185.jpgCPA-10046185Students observe the riding skills of Alvaro Domecq of the famous Royal School of Equestrian Art, Jerez, Spain, 1988. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10038678.jpgCPA-10038678Barman Jose awaits his customers during the April Fair celebration in Barcelona, 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10038661.jpgCPA-10038661Horse riders enjoying a "fino" sherry during celebrations of the Barcelona April fair, 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10073477.jpgCPA-10073477The fishing town of Isafjordur under intense blizzard conditions. Iceland, 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_005.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_005A fjord, Vigur Island, Iceland, 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_006.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_006A lonely figure walks through Isafjordur town under blizzard conditions, Iceland, 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_007.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_007A fluorescent cross marks the location where an avalanche killed 20 people in blizzard conditions, Flateyri, Iceland, 1996. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_008.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_008Funeral of Alicia Georges, two days before the downfall of the" Baby Doc" Duvalier regime, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1986. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10176663.jpgCPA-10176663Michelle and Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier making a quick escape to France during the Haitian "revolution" that ousted them from power. They governed a a ruthless dictatorship, supported and propped up by the feared "Ton Ton Macoute", which where Haiti's paramilitary and secret police known for their reign of terror through kidnappings, assassinations, torture and utter brutality, 1986. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/36https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_009.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_009Extreme poverty inside a Port-au-Prince slum known as Brooklyn, houses over a million people, Haiti, 1986. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/37https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10176708.jpgCPA-10176708With the downfall of Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's government, during the Haitian "revolution" that ousted him from power. He governed a a ruthless dictatorship, supported and propped up by the feared "Ton Ton Macoute", which where Haiti's paramilitary and secret police known for their reign of terror through kidnappings, assassinations, torture and utter brutality. Seen here widespread looting took place immediately after he and his wife Michelle made a quick escape to France. 1986. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/38https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10176774.jpgCPA-10176774Inside Cite Soleil, Port au Prince's largest most densely populated slumb, where approximately 400.00 people live in pretty dire conditions, Haiti 1986. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/39https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_010.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_010Thousands of Gold prospectors work the open mine of Serra Pelada with the dream of enriching themselves in the process, Para state, Brazil, 1986. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/40https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_011.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_011Serra Pelada gold mine. Where thousands of workers are seen prospecting for gold in an open pit mine which became synonymous with Brazil's gold rush fever in the 1980's, Para state, Brazil, 1986. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/41https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10148776.jpgCPA-10148776Brazil - Matto Grosso do Sul - Charcoal burning, 1998. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/42https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10038729.jpgCPA-10038729School children pay a visit to the Chaing Kai - shek memorial in TaiPei, Taiwan, 1989. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/43https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10126249.jpgCPA-10126249Yu Shui Li and Hsung Yu Tang complete their marriage vows in a photographer's studio for their official wedding picture doning traditional chinese attire, TaiPei, 1989. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/44https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10037662.jpgCPA-10037662Liu Li Mui and Wu Mao Ling bless their marriage at the Chaing Kai Shek memorial hall, Taipei, Taiwan, 1989. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/45https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_013.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_013Parmesan cheese maturing on racks in warehouse, Parma, Italy, 1988. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/46https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_014.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_014A window into a brothel of the Thai sex industry, Chaing Mai, Thailand, 1992. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/47https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10158053.jpgCPA-10158053The Hagia Sofia Mosque on the Bosphorous, Turkey, 2005. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/48https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10161596.jpgCPA-10161596Ozlem Taskent, 30. Young and rich, part of Istanbul's "Jet set" class. Seen here at home in her Yali, exclusive homes along the Bosphorous river, 2005. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/49https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/1-CPA-10038726a.jpg1-CPA-10038726aFish vendors on the quayside of the Bosporus, Istanbul, Turkey, 1988. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/50https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_015.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_015Cemberlitas Hamami, steam baths, Istanbul, Turkey, 1988. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/51https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10161582.jpgCPA-10161582A private party held at Ottoman Art consultant's home Serdar Gulgun, with a crowd of international "jet set" guests, including the Japanese fashion designerKenzo, a Moroccan princess, Tarkan a top Turkish pop star, and others. Seen dancing on coffee table with a belly dancer, 2005. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/52https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10037649.jpgCPA-10037649Street scenes in the old quarter of Istanbul, Turkey, 1988. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/53https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10161584.jpgCPA-10161584The Viennese Ball at Istanbul's Austrian school, held to mark the graduation dinner of the senior students. The Ball is held at the Ciragan Palace, Istanbul. It is the finest setting along the Bosphorous river. The Austrian schoolis also considered to be amongst the finest schools in the city, 2005. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/54https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10161597.jpgCPA-10161597The exclusive Havana Beach Club where the wealthy, successful and famous hang out during Turkey's summer seaside resort of Bodrum, 2005. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/55https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/2019-01-24-0001.jpg2019-01-24-0001Glue sniffers living in Brixton, south London in total hopeless squalor, 1984. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/56https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Scan-120117-0001.jpgScan-120117-0001Lord Weymouth of Bath, Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath celebrating the annual summer solstice at his home's fancy dress garden party, Longlet, Wiltshire, England, 1987. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/57https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10097713.jpgCPA-10097713Lone cowboy on Cremer cattle ranch - roams the 125,000 acres in Montana, USA, 1997. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/58https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10021909b.jpgCPA-10021909bFarmer brothers in Vermont, USA, 1986. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/59https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10097726.jpgCPA-10097726The barnyard at Cremer Ranch, Montana, USA, 1997. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/60https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10097756a.jpgCPA-10097756aCowboys preparing to to herd 300 head of cattle for branding in Montana, USA, 1997. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/61https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10097760.jpgCPA-10097760Cowboys take a break from branding cattle to have a few beers at the Grand Hotel, Big Timber, Montana, 1997. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/62https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10161163.jpgCPA-10161163Professional rodeo riders participate in the annual "bucking broncos" Barretos Championship, Brazil, 1998. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/63https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10189429.jpgCPA-10189429Bob Burton the programme director of the unorthodox juvenile rehabilitation centre known as Vision Quest in Arizona, USA, 1987. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/64https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/NewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_020.jpgNewWebsite_2018_Archive_singles_020Horseman at Banka Banka cattle station, Birdsville, Australia, 1988. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/65https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10079164.jpgCPA-10079164At Chelthenham racecourse, UK, 1988. https://christopherpillitz.com/Other-Projects/66https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CPA-10132743a.jpgCPA-10132743aDesert like conditions in Birdsville's famous racecourse in Queenslands' outback, where hundreds of party and horse racing fanatics head every year to this mythic venue, Australia, 2003. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/TEXT_Montserrat_Island_Volcano_2005.pngTEXT_Montserrat_Island_Volcano_2005 https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_001a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_001aAerial view of the slopes of the Soufriere Hills showing the destruction caused by the devastating volcanic eruption and complete loss of the capital, Plymouth to ash, lava, rocks and mud flow in July 1995. Two thirds of the whole of the island's population were forced to flee their homes or the island entirely. Montserrat Island, January 2005. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_002a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_002a" La Cave" nightclub under mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow in the volcanic eruptions of 1995 -97 in the capital Plymouth, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_003a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_003aThe abandoned untouched remains of a home in the capital Plymouth in the Amersham district, destroyed by mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow after the volcanic eruptions of 1995 -97, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_004a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_004aAngelo's Restaurant destroyed by mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow in the volcanic eruptions of 1995 -97, Plymouth, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_005a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_005aThe remains of Barclays Bank interior destroyed after mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow engulfed the capital Plymouth during the volcanic eruptions of 1995 -97, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_006a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_006aPlymouth's Government HQ destroyed and abandoned after the volcanic eruptions of the volcano on the Soufriere Hills in 1995-97 engulfed the south half of the island, Montserrat. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_007a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_007aA looted house in Amersham, a district of Montserrat's capital Plymouth, after the volcanic eruptions of the volcano on Soufriere Hills in 1995-97 which engulfed and destroyed the south side of the island. In the process 7000 inhabitants lost their homes and livelihoods, forced to relocate to other Caribbean islands, the USA and the UK. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_008a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_008aPlymouth's destroyed Court House engulfed by mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow that completely destroyed the capital in the volcanic eruptions of 1995 -97 of the Soufriere Hills, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_009a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_009aThe abandoned remains of a home in Plymouth's Amersham district from mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow after the volcanic eruptions of 1995 -97 of the Soufriere Hills, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0010a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0010aPlymouth's Coconut Hill Hotel (1908). The oldest on the island, destroyed after mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow engulfed the capital in the volcanic eruptions of 1995-97 of the Soufriere Hills, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0011a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0011aInterrupted lives: Deadly eerie silence prevails in the many abandoned homes and businesses that litter what little remains of Plymouth the capital, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0012a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0012aPlymouth Governor's residence and emblematic garden destroyed after mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow engulfed the capital in the volcanic eruptions of 1995-97 of the Soufriere Hills, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0013a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0013aThe eerie silence of an abandoned untouched remains in a home in Plymouth's Amersham district, destroyed by mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow after the volcanic eruptions of 1995 -97, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0014a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0014aVinceroy Riley (21), would have been an arduous clubber at Plymouth's "La Cave" nightclub had it still being open today, Plymouth, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0015a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0015aInterrupted lives: Abandoned homes and businesses, Plymouth, Montserreat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0016a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0016aAsh covered Johnnie's Mecca Fashion store, abandoned to the elements, Plymouth, Montserrat. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0017a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0017aInterrupted lives: eerie silence reins in an abandoned home in what little remains of the capital Plymouth, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0018a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0018aHelena Codrington, whom worked at Montserrat island's Treasury building, now lies at her feet after the devastating eruptions of 1995-97 which obliterated and engulfed the capital Plymouth and much of the south side of the island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0019a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0019aKeizia Riley, 10 stands on top of the four story St Augustine's Catholic Primary School in Plymouth. The school would have been the place she would have studied at had the violent volcanic eruptions of 1995-97 not devastated the south side of the island, Montserrat. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0020a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0020aCedric Osborne in front of the remains of his family's Coconut Hill Hotel (1908), Plymouth's oldest on the island, destroyed after mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow engulfed the capital in the volcanic eruptions of 1995-97 of the Soufriere Hills, Montserrat Island. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Montserrat---Pompeii-of-the-Caribbean/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/Montserrat_Is_2005_0021a.jpgMontserrat_Is_2005_0021aBennette Roach in front of the buried Court House, where he once worked, prior to the devastating eruptions of the Soufriere Hills in 1995-97, which buried the south side of the island in mud, rocks, ash and pyroclastic flow. Today he is the proprietor, editor, and publisher of the Montserrat Observer. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/001_GraceJones_Singer_Songwriter.jpg001_GraceJones_Singer_SongwriterGRACE JONES, Jamaican singer and actress, London - 1986 for Newsweek Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/002_MarcoPWhiteGordonRamsey_Chefs.jpgCelebrity ChefsMARCO PIERRE WHITE and GORDON RAMSEY British celebrity chefs at Harvey's Restaurant, London - 1989 for The Sunday Times Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/003_MarcoPWhite_Chef.jpg003_MarcoPWhite_ChefCelebrity Chef MARCO PIERRE WHITE, London - 1989 for The Sunday Times Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/004_LordDavidOwen_Politician.jpg004_LordDavidOwen_PoliticianPolitician Lord DAVID OWEN, former leader and founder of the SDP (Social Democratic party), London - 1987 for Elle Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/005_ZahaHadid_Architect.jpg005_ZahaHadid_ArchitectIraqi Architect ZAHA HADID, London - 1986 for Interview Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/006_SirEltonJohn_Singer-Songwriter.jpg006_SirEltonJohn_Singer-SongwriterSir ELTON JOHN, Musician singer - songwriter, London - 1988 for The Sunday Times Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/007_JohnGalliano.jpg007_JohnGallianoFashion Designer JOHN GALLIANO, London - 1990 for The Telegraph Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/008_PeterGabriel.jpg008_PeterGabrielBritish musician, singer - songwriter PETER GABRIEL, Bath - 1988 for The New York Times Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/009_MarioVargasLlosa.jpg009_MarioVargasLlosaPeruvian writer-author MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, winner of the Nobel prize in Literature, London - 1986 for The Sunday Times Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/010_PresidentCarlosMenem.jpg010_PresidentCarlosMenemArgentine President CARLOS MENEM, Buenos Aires - 1989 for The Sunday Times Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/011_StephenJones.jpg011_StephenJonesBritish Milliner STEPHEN JONES, London - 1986 for Interview Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/012_JorgeLuisBorges.jpg012_JorgeLuisBorgesArgentine writer - author JORGE LUIS BORGES, Buenos Aires - 1983. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/013_CaetanoVeloso.jpg013_CaetanoVelosoBrazilian CAETANO VELOSO, musician singer-songwriter and poet, Salvador de Bahia - 1995 for Mirabella Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/014_JorgeAmado_1.jpg014_JorgeAmado_1Brazilian author JORGE AMADO, London - 1994 for The Independent Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/015_JosephEttedgui.jpg015_JosephEttedguiFashion designer, JOSEPH ETTEDGUI, London - 1986 for Interview Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/016_DominicDunne.jpg016_DominicDunneAmerican writer DOMINICK DUNNE, London - 1986 for Elle Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/017_MarioVargasLlosa_2.jpg017_MarioVargasLlosa_2Peruvian writer-author MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, winner of the Nobel prize in Literature, London - 1986 for The Sunday Times Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/018_JamesTurrel.jpg018_JamesTurrelAmerican Artist JAMES TURREL, London - 2000 for TIme Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/019_GilbertoGil_1.jpg019_GilbertoGil_1Brazilian musician, singer - songwriter and Minister of Culture GILBERTO GIL, Brasilia - 2003 for The Observer Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/020_PaulTheroux.jpg020_PaulTherouxAmerican author PAUL THEROUX , French Polynesia - 1990 for The Observer Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/021_EduardoGalleano.jpg021_EduardoGalleanoUruguayan writer EDUARDO GALEANO, Montevideo - 2002 for GEO Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/022_GilbertoGil_2.jpg022_GilbertoGil_2Brazilian musician, singer - songwriter and Minister of Culture GILBERTO GIL, Brasilia - 2003 for The Observer Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/023_AshleyPage.jpg023_AshleyPageBritish dancer & choreographer ASHLEY PAGE, London - 1990 for The Telegraph Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/024_JorgeAmado_2.jpg024_JorgeAmado_2Brazilian author JORGE AMADO, London - 1994 for The Independent Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/025_RichardRogers_1.jpg025_RichardRogers_1British Architect Sir RICHARD ROGERS, London - 1987 for Interview Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/026_RichardRogers_2.jpg026_RichardRogers_2British Architect Sir RICHARD ROGERS, London - 1987 for Interview Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/027_MstisalvRostropovich.jpg027_MstisalvRostropovichRussian Cellist MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, London - 1987 for The Sunday Times Magazine. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/028_CarlosFuentes.jpg028_CarlosFuentesCARLOS FUENTES, Mexican author, London - 1994 for The Independent Magazine https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20121013_gtrotti_016.jpg20121013_gtrotti_016Argentine artist GERARDO TROTTI, Madrid - 2012. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20130615_football_brazil_0017.jpg20130615_football_brazil_0017Alexandre Helios Motta, 37 one of the most fanatical ardent of Corinthians FC fans. His body is covered in his team's tattoos. For him Corinthians FC is bigger more important then anything else in life. His association with the club runs from birth and he can see the team's HQ from his home in Sao Paulo. He never misses any of their games including those that take place abroad even going as far as Japan when Corinthians played against Chelsea in 2013 World football championship or the Libertadores cup across South America. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/a_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0297.jpga_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0297Mohammed, a live chicken seller inside the Souk, plies his mobile trade in the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20130608_football_brazil_0068.jpg20130608_football_brazil_0068Former Brazilian military officer Delneri Martina Viana, 68 has been a life long supporter, some would say an irreparable, impassioned fanatic of Rio de Janeiro's Botafogo FC. Ever since his departure form his military life he set upon decorating every centimetre of skin with tattoos mostly related to his love and obsession for "his " Botafogo team. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20170402_niger_airmountains_rf_265.jpg20170402_niger_airmountains_rf_265Liman Feltou, vists his father Feltou Mohamed Dayak, 90 at their ancestral home in the Tidene region of north central Niger. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/34https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20130615_football_brazil_0132.jpg20130615_football_brazil_0132Alexandre Helios Motta, 37 one of the most fanatical ardent of Corinthians FC fans. His body is covered in his team's tattoos. For him Corinthians FC is bigger more important then anything else in life. His association with the club runs from birth and he can see the team's HQ from his home in Sao Paulo. He never misses any of their games including those that take place abroad even going as far as Japan when Corinthians played against Chelsea in 2013 World football championship or the Libertadores cup across South America. https://christopherpillitz.com/Portraits/35https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/20230326_Argentina_Cba_Gaucho_0047-19.jpg20230326_Argentina_Cba_Gaucho_0047-19Hector "Gato" Augusto Diaz, drinking a beer in Jesuit ranch "Estancia Santa Catalina", Ascochinga, Córdoba, Argentina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/CHINA_The_embrace_and_caress_of_Western_luxury.pngCHINA_The_embrace_and_caress_of_Western_luxury https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/001_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg001_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsAffluent shoppers walk through and shop in a large open air district housed with exclusive western brands in the up market, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/002_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg002_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsA family walk past an installation of Chinese lanterns illuminating the night in the upmarket neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/003_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg003_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsA fashion shoot underway in a large open air shopping mall in the upmarket, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/004_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg004_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsA woman sits on her partner's lap outside a pop-up Vivienne Westwood café in the upmarket neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/005_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg005_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsPedestrians and shoppers walk through a large open air shopping mall in the up market, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/006_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg006_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsYoung and affluent shoppers walk and exchange phone numbers in a large open air shopping mall in the upmarket, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/007_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg007_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsPedestrians and shoppers walk past and through a large open air shopping mall in the upmarket, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/008_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg008_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsPedestrians and shoppers walk through a large open air shopping district in the up market, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/009_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg009_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsAffluent shoppers walk through and shop in a large open air shopping mall housed with exclusive western brands in the upmarket, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/010_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg010_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsPedestrians and shoppers walk through a large open air shopping district in the upmarket, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/011_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg011_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsYoung and fashionable Beijingers walk through a large open air shopping district in the upmarket, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/012_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg012_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsPedestrians and shoppers walk through a large open air shopping mall in the up market, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/013_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg013_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsPedestrians walk along an up market, fashionable and trendy western brand lined neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/014_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg014_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsPortrait of a pair of Poodle dogs in a pram in an exclusive open air up market, fashionable and trendy mall in the neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/015_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg015_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsA young and fashionable Beijinger walks through a YSL pop up store in a large open air shopping district in the upmarket, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/016_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg016_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsAffluent shoppers walk through and shop in a large open air shopping mall housed with exclusive western brands in the upmarket, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/017_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg017_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsPedestrians and shoppers walk through a large open air shopping district in the upmarket, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/018_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg018_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsAffluent shoppers dine in the up market, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/China---The-embrace-and-caress-of-Western-luxury%26period;/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/019_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_Brands.jpg019_Christopher_Pillitz_China_The_Luxury_of_Western_BrandsAffluent shoppers walk through and shop in a large open air shopping mall housed with exclusive western brands in the up market, fashionable and trendy neighbourhood of Sanlitun with many curious onlookers observing the proceedings, Beijing, China. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/thumbs https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/1https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/001_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0027.jpg001_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0027Traditional men and women walk along in the early morning light along the outer walls of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, which is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/2https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/002_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0213.jpg002_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0213A muslim man walks up the steep hill to his home wearing a traditional Djellabas through the narrow alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site after running his errands. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/3https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/003_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0297.jpg003_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0297Mohammed, a live chicken seller inside the Souk, plies his mobile trade in the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/4https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/004_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0119a.jpg004_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0119aOn a silent street scene a muslim man wearing a traditional Djellaba, walks down stairs through the narrow alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/5https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/005_20251226_Morocco_Marrakesh_180.jpg005_20251226_Morocco_Marrakesh_180Local residents go about their daily activities through the narrow alleyways within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/6https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/007_20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_009.jpg007_20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_009Local residents walk past a street mural by British-Ghanain artist Neequaye "Dreph" Dsane, representing Moroccan life and customs in a narrow alleyway within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/7https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/006_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0168.jpg006_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0168A male customer drinks coffee and smokes a cigarette in the Café de Paris just outside the old city walls known as the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/8https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/008_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0305.jpg008_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0305Muslim woman wearing traditional Hijab and clothing walks passed a traditional Moor door through the alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/9https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/009_20251227_Morocco_Marrakesh_022.jpg009_20251227_Morocco_Marrakesh_022Local residents go about their daily activities through the narrow alleyways within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/10https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/010_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0176.jpg010_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0176Muslim woman wearing traditional hijab and clothing walks through the narrow alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/11https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/011_20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_262.jpg011_20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_262Local residents go about their daily activities late into the evening through the narrow alleyways within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina on a rainy December night. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/12https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/012_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0049.jpg012_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0049Muslim men and women wearing traditional Djellaba and Hijabs walk through the narrow Souk alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, a UNESCO World Heritage site looking for bargains. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/13https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/024_20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_034.jpg024_20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_034A man walks through a rain sodden narrow alleyway within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/14https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/014_20251224_Morocco_Marrakesh_038.jpg014_20251224_Morocco_Marrakesh_038Local residents within the walls of the old Marrakech Medina go about their daily activities amidst the smoke from a street stall barbecue vendor. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/15https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/016_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0223.jpg016_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0223A young girl leaves her home to run errands through the narrow alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/16https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/018_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0374.jpg018_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0374An elderly Djellaba wearing man walks through the narrow alleyways as he heads home within the walls of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, which is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/17https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/017_20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_071.jpg017_20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_071Local boys playing a soccer kick about in a narrow alleyways within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/18https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/019_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0244.jpg019_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0244A local muslim woman wearing traditional hijab and clothing observes a man carrying a gas stove on shoulders through the narrow alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/19https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/015_20251226_Morocco_Marrakesh_117.jpg015_20251226_Morocco_Marrakesh_117Local residents go about their daily activities through the narrow alleyways within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/20https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/020_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0345.jpg020_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0345Portrait of a muslim man wearing traditional Djellaba waits for trade inside the Souk of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/21https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/021_20251227_Morocco_Marrakesh_154.jpg021_20251227_Morocco_Marrakesh_154A Djellaba wearing man walks through a souk where metal workers and artisans work within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina on a rainy December day. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/22https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/022_20251227_Morocco_Marrakesh_103.jpg022_20251227_Morocco_Marrakesh_103Traditional weaver Abedlohide, 64 works his loom inside his small shop which lie within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/23https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/023_20251227_Morocco_Marrakesh_123.jpg023_20251227_Morocco_Marrakesh_123Traditional weaver's tools and glasses lie on a scarf that is being made in his shop which lie within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/24https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/025_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0215.jpg025_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0215Local residents whitewash the facade of a house, whilst a lady dusts off the dirt of the wall of her home in narrow alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/25https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/026_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0246.jpg026_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0246Muslim woman wearing traditional hijab and clothing walks through the narrow alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/26https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/013_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0204.jpg013_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0204A market seller inside the traditional Souk inside the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, which is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/27https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/027_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0394.jpg027_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0394An elderly Djellaba wearing man walks through the narrow alleyways as he heads home within the walls of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, which is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/28https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/028_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0378.jpg028_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0378An elderly Djellaba wearing man talks to his neighbour as he arrives at his home through the narrow alleyways within the walls of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, which is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/29https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/029_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0288.jpg029_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0288Muslim man wearing traditional Djellaba and clothing walk passed a traditional Moor door through the alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/30https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/030_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0099.jpg030_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0099Muslim woman wearing traditional hijab and clothing attending to the house work in the narrow alleyways of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, the old walled town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/31https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/031_20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_161.jpg031_20251228_Morocco_Marrakesh_161Local residents go about their daily activities late into the evening through the narrow alleyways within the outer walls of the old Marrakech Medina on a rainy December day. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/32https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/032_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0387.jpg032_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0387An elderly Djellaba wearing man arrives at his home through the narrow alleyways within the walls of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, which is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://christopherpillitz.com/Projects/Morocco----Rhythms-and-Cadence-of-a-city/33https://christopherpillitz.com/pf-media/033_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0363.jpg033_20251225_Morocco_Tetouan_0363Traditional men and women walk along in the late afternoon light in Feddan park on the outer edges of the Medina of Tétouan, Morocco, with the Kasbah atop the hill, both of which are designated a UNESCO World Heritage sites.