rakaposhi image gallery

Title: Chile
Author: Ana Araujo
Number of images: 34
Visits: 745 Comments: 164485
Date: Thursday, 02/June/2005
Description:
Photos from the Fulbright trip to Chile.

Title: Lençois Town
Author: thomas zito
Number of images: 8
Visits: 839 Comments: 0
Date: 14 march 2005
Description:
These are some photos of the town of Lençois.

Title: People of Bahia
Author: thomas zito
Number of images: 5
Visits: 797 Comments: 0
Date: 9 March through 19 March 2005
Description:
Various people photographed in Bahia province in March 2005

Title: Walk from Lençois to Capua
Author: thomas zito
Number of images: 12
Visits: 743 Comments: 0
Date: 12 March, 2005
Description:
These are photos from the walk (20km) Ana and I took from Lençois to Capua - a little farming/hippy-tourist town in the Chapada Diamantina.

Title: igrejas of pelorinho
Author: thomas zito
Number of images: 11
Visits: 923 Comments: 0
Date: 10 march, 2004
Description:
photos of two of the churches in Pelorinho, One is the primarily African church (A Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos - The Church Our Lady of the Rosary of the Blacks) which was built built over the course of a hundred years beginning in 1704, by the enslaved members of O Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos do Pelourinho (The Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Black Men of Pelourinho) since no Africans were allowed in any white church. The other church is the major colonial basilica with its deformed cherubs (some are pregnant, others have had their genitals scrubbed off). The story has it that slaves were made to carve the cherubs, angels and other statues for their Christian enslavers but not allowed to practice their own religion, Candoble; thus as an act of resistance, they purposely made the Christian symbols ugly and distorted.

Title: Lençois Fiera
Author: thomas zito
Number of images: 13
Visits: 765 Comments: 1
Date: 14 March, 2005
Description:
Photos taken in Lençois of the local monday market