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Cristina de Middel BRAZIL. Rio de Janiero. 2015. Maginô, 46 years. International business. Divorced and has a daughter. He visits a prostitute twice a week and he pays 80 Rs (20 Euros) for a session. He doesn’t remem (...)
Cristina de Middel Silvio, 28 years. Security guard at a nightclub. Single. He visits a prostitute 3 times a week and he pays 180 Rs (40 Euros) for 40 minutes with two girls. He started making use of these services w (...)
Cristina de Middel BRAZIL. Rio de Janiero. 2015. Silvio, 28 years. Security guard at a nightclub. Single. He visits a prostitute 3 times a week and he pays 180 Rs (40 Euros) for 40 minutes with two girls. He started (...)
Cristina de Middel BRAZIL. Rio de Janiero. 2015. Detail of the towels used by clients in the rooms that get rented per hour in the area of the Plaza Tiradentes, in the centre of Rio de Janeiro. The room costs 5 Euros (...)
Cristina de Middel Detail of one the beds of a hostel located in the area of the plaza Mauá. The central meeting point for business for the prostitutes and clients of the area. The room costs 14 Euros per service. Ri (...)
Cristina de Middel BRAZIL. Rio de Janiero. 2015. Detail of one of the beds of the hostel where the photos were taken, in the vicinity of the plaza Tiradentes. The sheets are changed once a day, regardless of how they (...)
Cristina de Middel BRAZIL. Rio de Janiero. 2015. Details of the rooms of the hostel close the to the plaza Mauá, close to the Puerto Del Rio. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos
Cristina de Middel BRAZIL. Rio de Janiero. 2015. Charles doesn’t want to say his age. He’s a worker in the metal industry. He never got married and he has 3 children. He visits a prostitute 3 times a week and pays 50 (...)
Cristina de Middel BRAZIL. Rio de Janiero. 2015. Detail of one of the rooms of a hostel close to the Plaza Mauá. The rooms are supposedly romantically themed. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos
Cristina de Middel Luis prefers not to say how old he is. Electrician. Single and father of two sons. He visits a prostitute once a week and he pays 30 Rs (7 Euros) per session. He was 11 when he started using the se (...)
Cristina de Middel Marcus, 22 years old. Video editor. Single and no kids. He’s been to a prostitute 4 times and paid 60 Rs (14 Euros) for 30 minutes. His first was when he was 20 years old and he keeps going because (...)
Cristina de Middel 2015. The Lines in our Hands. From the project: Exuegguá. (Collaboration with Bruno Morais.) © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos
Cristina de Middel On Energy Waste. From the series: Excessocenus. (Collaboration with Bruno Morais.) Mozambique. 2016. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos
Cristina de Middel 2015. Pata De Cabra. From the project: Exuegguá. (Collaboration with Bruno Morais.) © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos
Cristina de Middel Exu Smokes Backwards. From the project: Exuegguá. (Collaboration with Bruno Morais.) 2016. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos