GALLERY: Sao Paulo Street Visions
The Unidentified Graffiti Artists of Sao Paulo turn bleak vistas into psychedelic visions.
Life in the Vila Flavia favela of Sao Paulo, Brazil, can be seen as a bleak procession of barren vistas leading to a grim horizon of depression and death. But then there are the vivid and vibrant murals sprayed around town by the neighborhood’s OPNI, a Portuguese acronym that means Unidentified Graffiti Artists.
Since 1997, OPNI have been transforming slum walls into an open-air gallery celebrating the multi-chromatic carnival that is day-to-day existence as the flavela residents live it and dream it.













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