Crackland

This long-term photo project is the result of nearly a decade spent documenting life inside Cracolândia, known as "Crackland," this stretch in the heart of São Paulo has become both a physical and symbolic epicenter of Brazil’s struggles with addiction, poverty, and abandonment. What began in the late 1980s as a shadowy corner of the city grew into a living testament to a crisis the country still grapples with today.

It is not just about the devastation of crack-cocaine. It is about the lives wrapped around it: the people fighting to survive, the moments of tenderness amid the chaos, the quiet battles taking place in the margins of society. These photographs do not offer easy answers. They ask us to look, closely, honestly, and to remember that what happens in Cracolândia is not separate from the rest of Brazil, or from us. It is a mirror we often turn away from.