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To Live
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Romina Hendlin

This is the story about the journey of a man following his dreams. Maickel Melamed was born with his umbilical cord wrapped around his throat. He could not breathe for the first minutes of his life. This caused him to have severe motor disabilities. The doctors thought he would only survive for a couple of days. Today, he is 37 years old.

Over the years, Maickel learned how to transform his disability into his strength. He decided to run the NYC Marathon as a way to inspire people to achieve their goals. He always says: “If you dream it, make it happen”

As a friend of Maickel, I had great access to intimate moments, but it was also a big challenge to photograph his pain and his struggle. For three years, I went to Maickel’s trainings, to his doctor’s appointment, to the conferences he gives as a motivational speaker, and to the races and other marathons he ran to train for his biggest goal.

Maickel is determine to run the five major marathons in the world. He has already finished the New York and Berlin marathons. Next year, he will run in London and Chicago and in 2014 he will finish with the Boston marathon.

His courage is a testament to the human spirit.

 

  

 

 
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Transbrasilianas

Ricardo Teles

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At the beginning of the 1940s, practically all 43 million of Brazil’s inhabitants were concentrated

on the coast and looked on the interior of their own country as something exotic. The region was no more than a vast, unexplored shaded area in Brazilian geography. The Roncador-Xingu expedition was planned to explore and discover the heart of this legendary, mysterious Brazil.

The fundamental instrument that allowed for such phenomenal territorial occupation was the building of a network of highways that would connect the country. All along the highways trees fell, new and often destructive urban centers were born, attracting people with dreams of a better life.

These highways are the main connecting links between communities and serve as supply arteries and production transportation channels. They synthesize the duel between the new agricultural and environmental frontiers, as well as the rich social universe that lives and depends on them for its survival.

Transbrasilianas is an immersion into the depths of Brazil. It shows, through Brazilian highways and the people who live around them, a picture, in some ways disconcerting, of a reality often forgotten by the greater public. It speaks, in the end, of the complexity of the life of this important section of Brazilian society, their challenges, paradigms and the uncertain paths that point to the future.