David Alan Harvey’s shots of Rio and Bahia
Corcovado with its iconic Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking Rio de Janiero. “Visible from nearly every part of the city, and here sharing the skyline with the moon”. (Photo by David Alan Harvey/Magnum Photos/The Guardian)
Salvador, Bahia, New Year’s Eve. “Light from fireworks brightens the beach scene as I shoot from the top of a tall building near the beach. Almost everyone is dressed in white in celebration of the New Year and to honour Yemenja, goddess of the sea. I never have a tripod, that’s just not normally the way I work, so I borrowed one for this shot using Velvia film”. (Photo by David Alan Harvey/The Guardian)
Rio de Janeiro, Carnaval. “Getting inside permission is always the key. I always want to be where nobody can go or should go. Backstage. In the middle”. (Photo by David Alan Harvey/Magnum Photos/The Guardian)
Salvador, Bahia. “There isn’t a Brazilian young man playing beach soccer who hasn’t dreamed of being a superstar. With a great climate all year, many a beach football player has indeed gone on to fame and fortune”. (Photo by David Alan Harvey/Magnum Photos/The Guardian)
Praia du Forte, Bahia. “This was the lead picture for a National Geographic story on Bahia, because it was both mysterious as well as a “geography” picture showing where the slaves arrived from Nigeria. Beach pictures seem like they should be easy to take, but for me they are actually quite difficult. Too easy to fall into cliche. When I saw the kid coming on the horse, I quickly ran to see if I could make something with a woman in a bikini that was not a bikini shot”. (Photo by David Alan Harvey/The Guardian)
Salvador, Bahia. “I often shoot in the favelas in Brazil. Not to take pictures of poverty, but to show the many activities going on which show another spirit. Boxing practice in one of the favelas seemed like a good way to go. Many favelas are rich with cultural programmes”. (Photo by David Alan Harvey/The Guardian)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “I had gotten a simple shallow water camera to use for my lady free-divers project in Korea. I realised then that it would be a terrific beach camera, so I went back to Rio to try and work on my Beach Games book. I seriously enjoyed, much to my surprise, how much fun I had in the water making photographs. Something I had never done previously. As usual, my assistants and friends become my models”. (Photo by David Alan Harvey/Magnum Photos/The Guardian)
Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro. “Beach sellers are everywhere, all the time, in Rio. Yet this guy with his patterned shorts matching the sea and sky behind, gave me just what I needed to photograph the women nearby. A bikini shot all by itself just doesn’t work. There are lots of bikinis in Rio, and yet I have very few photos to depict this in a way that is not a bikini shot for its own sake”. (Photo by David Alan Harvey/The Guardian)
Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro. “Life is simple, at least for a short moment, on a beach filled with thousands of people. This was the cover of the my (Based on a True Story) book, and another frame from this day was on the cover of NatGeo Brazil”. (Photo by David Alan Harvey/The Guardian)
Brazil through David Alan Harvey's Eyes
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