Here is just a quick sneak peak at what’s going on over at Rio Book. Honestly it is a rather amazing experience in all directions. This will never happen again. Anybody can see this is a one time event..Come on over and hang. For those of you who have never been here before, what is …
Jason Florio The Long Fight for Kawtoolie Sixty two years ago in Karen State, Burma, the Karen people were forced into a David and Goliath conflict against the powerful authoritarian Burmese military regime who have tried to push the Karen people off the map through a brutal and systematic policy of murder, rape, forced labor …
Mikolaj Nowacki Odra Odra is the second largest river in Poland. Its waters joins three countries: Czech, where it starts, Poland and Germany. I grew up on the banks of this river in the communist era playing with my best friend on boats and on a landfill of anchors, observing barges that transported coal. I …
I am just getting rolling in RIO. I have just been here a bit over a week and starting to get into a rhythm. I mean you gotta get a beat going. You can’t just be “working”. Disaster. You have to be living it. That is for work that means something to …
Juliette Mills Brothers This is the story of my life with my two boys since moving to a special place where we all feel closer to nature than ever before. It’s a magical garden where we can fly. It’s a place where the boys can be free. Where they run, climb, wade through a giant …
The above collage represents my first week in Rio reporting for theriobook.com For those of you who do not know, I am in Rio de Janeiro on assignment for my own book. The final chapter of my work here for the last couple of years on and off. While most of us do have …
Below an exerpt from: www.theriobook.com…..new title for the book is ( i think) One Night in Rio …building the last chapter now T-shirt vendor Everton Alves is known only as Cowboy on Copacabana Beach. The gold cow is part of an international street art project where the locally decorated cows are later auctioned off for …
Francesca Mancini Asylum Seeking Refuge This is the story of a young man aged twenty, this is the story of a man aged thirty, this is the story of a boy. This is the story of someone who, out of necessity or choice, is compelled to fight a system and to pay the consequences: forced …
photographed by Candy Pilar Godoy HEY AMIGO…MISSING YOU HERE IN RIO….THIS IS A TOTALLY CRAZY SHOUT OUT FITTING FOR THIS OCCASION Since you cannot be with us today, please join us theriobook.com YOU are a star there right now. Anyway, behind the scenes today in Rio we are thinking of you. Hope I did not …
I take a camera everywhere. On assignment of course and to the grocery store too. Everywhere. In my camera bag, in a little waterproof bag that contains my passport etc, are the three items pictured that I would never go anywhere without. A poker chip. Yes a Harvey family designated set of poker chips for …
