Buyckx' pictures of Rio's Favelas win WorldPress Photo Award

Frederik Buyckx won the WorldPress Photo Award (Daily Life) for pictures of Daily life in the Favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

The favelas in Rio de Janeiro, slums where drugs and guns are a daily reality, are often separated by only one street from the richest and most exclusive areas of the city.

With the World Cup coming to Rio in 2014, and the Olympics in 2016, politicians are trying to clean up and pacify the favelas. New roads are being built, children play, and mothers take their children to school. Yet there remains an abundance of drugs and alcohol, conflicts between locals and the pacification police, and people who wish things would return to the way they used to be. What will happen when the big events have passed?

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