Seeing from the Hills of Rio's Favela

Raffi Khatchadourian of the New Yorker wrote: "The images of eyes, unblinking and the size of buildings, stared down from the slum on a hill—Rio de Janeiro’s oldest favela, Morro da Providência—and into the heart of the city. They emerged mysteriously, in the summer of 2008, not long after three young men from the community were murdered. The Brazilian Army and a powerful narco-mafia were implicated, and, when the news broke, residents of the favela rioted. The eyes were women’s eyes..." Read more about the effects of the visual on the living.