Black Girls in Ipanema: In highly segregated and unequal Rio de Janeiro, family photographs capture Black joy and the power of claiming the right to the city.

They live in Jardim Ana Clara, in the city of Duque de Caxias, which is part of the Rio metropolitan area, and we were waiting for them at Cinelândia, in downtown Rio, around 26 miles away from their homes. PHOTO (COLOR) Coming from a poor Black family in Brazil, I do not have many photos of family. The final photos, showing Laryssa touching the water, summarize the whole experience of trespassing historical exclusion in a very segregated I and i Black city like Rio de Janeiro. [Extracted from the article]