Images of Rio de Janeiro

All eyes will be on Brazil over the next month for world cup 2014. Over the years I have been lucky to shoot in Brazil several times, both for my own projects and on commissioned jobs. I was there last october for ten days shooting a magazine story and I have to say that it one of my favorite places to be.

Here's a selection of images of Rio from my archive.

Advertising shoot in Africa, Brazil and Bali.

I was commissioned by Ogilvy Primary Contact to shoot a series of 48 sheet ads for crops company Syngenta.The locations were in Bali, Africa and Brazil.Using local production companies, we sourced the right locations and cast local people for the shoot.
 

Rio Carnival floats

This weekend sees the biggest party in the world kick off in Rio de Janeiro. Rio Carnival is a wild 4 day celebration culminating in  the samba parade. The carnival floats are an essential element of the parades and when the party finishes they are taken and stored in warehouses so that the parts can cannibalized for the creation of new floats in later years. Last year whilst shooting an Ad in Brazil I came across the warehouses when I was exploring some of more dodgy parts of Rio. Images from this project can be seen below.