Soon after the birthday celebrations of Brasilia on April 25, 2010 the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo ran a story very nice on the Submerged Brasilia ... Early on I received several calls from friends and fellow professionals who congratulated me for the work and praised the matter ... After publication in the Associated Press access to the blog has increased considerably, especially in São Paulo ... You guys ... It is very important and gratifying to receive this support from the newspaper in which I work, I was very Happy ... Take this opportunity to thank everyone who form the Group State mainly chiefs Rui Nogueira, Juca Varella and Wilson Pedrosa ... Thank you all and thanks for the strength! That's it folks ... Enjoy and take a look at the matter coming soon below ... Hugs!
Images of a submerged Brasilia
Photographer of the 'state' plunges into Lake Paranoá and records the life and history that swallowed water and created the 50 years of capital
Rui Nogueira / BRASILIA
In the beginning was a Paranoá River, a farm and his pawns. Then missions known men said, in the late 19's to mid 20, that the city could stay in the heart of the country, but needed a "fluid lung" to quell the six-month dry desert of the Central Plateau. It was thus, in general risks, which were born almost 50 square miles of water from Lake Paranoá inaugurated on September 12, 1959, anniversary of Juscelino Kubitschek-seven months ahead of Brasilia. Artifice of engineers and workers, joined the lake stories, legends and tragedies in the depression formed by plateaus of Gamma and Paranoá. He also joined many homes and sewage enough to be threatened and need $ 250 million to again be at the beginning of this century, just and only one lake with river water and rainfall, and sail boats, oars and rowers , peacock bass, tilapia, carp, cormorants and herons, ducks and even capybaras in two of its three islands. Throughout 2009, the Paranoá won another frequent visitor: a legitimate candango that after a swim and a chance encounter with voodoo doll with a huge, deep lake, the city decided to give fifty with a photographic documentary on "the beach" brasiliense, with up to 40 m depth. Bert Roach, 41, photographer of the branch of the State, is the author of "Brasilia Submerged," a cultural project approved and built by the Government of the Federal District to celebrate its 50 years of capital. From the initial dip in March last year, the photographer did not stop. After the voodoo doll, passed through the lens of professional Barata poles, walls, doors and gates of the sheds of the workers who built the dam Paranoá. Did the record Tombstone thrilled diver Cristiano Santos, who died in an accident in 2002 in the lake. The friends have honored him with a "grave" at the bottom of Paranoá. Silently, Barata already strolled through the estate that went in there and stayed there. The cleaning has brought back the pleasure and mobile phones and expensive watches who fell and fall of the boats of the rich. In coming weeks, Roach will complete the works documenting the Village Amaury, another camp of the workers who filled the lake swallowed.
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