A Glimpse of Brazil In 1971 - Restored Photos From My Dad's Journey Through Brazil

My dad had been in the Peace Corps in Brazil during 1968, and returned in 1971 to explore the country again. He spent his 20's to his 40's traveling the world, hardcore backpacking style. He was a semi-professional photographer and after receiving a dual degree in psychology and philosophy he continued to pursue a degree in journalism, with photojournalism being his passion. I recently found his old slides and restored them to a digital format. These are all previously unpublished photos. I have throughly enjoyed this restoration project, as I get to sit around with my dad going through all of his old pictures and hearing his amazing travel stories. I want to share a few of them with you here, I hope you enjoy!

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Daily Catch - This was shot close to Salvador da Bahia and pictures fishermen coming in with their daily catch with their hand carved boats.

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One Log - These are the boats of the fishermen close to Salvador da Bahia, and each hand carved boat was made out of one single log.

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The Net - This is a fisherman ready to throw his net out in the surf to catch fish. It was shot outside of Salvador da Bahia.

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Old town in Salvador - I

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Old town in Salvador - II

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Heading to the Hacienda - This photo shows the guy my dad hitchhiked with, Rocky, and the girls that lived across the street of the clinic where my dad stayed at once he got sick in the jungle. They invited my dad and Rocky out to their family’s hacienda right outside of Goiania, the capital of the largest state of Brazil. When my dad traveled through the Bolivian amazon to Brazil with the Volkswagen he picked up a bug went into a coma for two days. He woke up in a clinic in Gioania and they never figured out what the bug was.

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Heading to the Hacienda - II

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Tarantula Sighting - This was shot on dirt road crossing Western Brazil in state of Mato Grosso. There was only one dirt road across the state back then, and it started in Rondônia.

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Christ the Redeemer - On the mountain top of Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro.

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Relaxing on Copacabana - A beach in Rio 1971.

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Morning after Carnival - My dad shot this one morning after partying all night during Carnival. He said that the partying goes all night and you don’t sleep for four days. At 6am he was wandering the streets and passed by this woman and felt compelled to take her picture.

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Beach Craft Bonanza - My dad was staying with a guy from the US Embassy in Rio and through a friend of a friend met this guy flying back to San Francisco that needed a “co-pilot” and someone to split the gas with. My dad hitched a ride with him from Rio to SF. In the journey back home he learned how to fly and flew the plane for a third of the way back.

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Hitching a flight back home

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Downtown Rio - Banco do Brasil

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Daily Catch - II - The fishermen close to Salvador da Bahia.

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Capoeira 50 years ago in the streets of Salvador - My dad witnessed a lot of capoeira in the favelas of Brazil. He saw guys use it as self-defence, and when police would come along they would pretend that they were dancing with each other so as not to get in trouble.

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