Book Jesus, Make-up and Football - Frederik Buyckx

This book is all about the favelas or slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where a fifth of Rio's six million residents live in favelas: self-built, improvised and densely populated neighborhoods where life can be rough. With the World Cup coming to Rio in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016, the city is determined to show its best side. The government takes the opportunity to clean up the slums and flush out the drug gangs. Frederik Buyckx rented a pied-terre in a favela for a few months and shared the daily life of the residents there. Jesus, Make-up and Football are the photographic result of those months.

Frederik Buyckx was born in 1984 in Antwerp. He obtained a master's degree in advertising design from St-Lucas Antwerp and studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent until 2013. In 2010 he became a freelance photographer and has since worked for national and international media. As a documentary photographer, he also focuses mainly on his personal projects: 'Jesus, Make-Up and Football', 'Horse Head' and 'WOLF'. In his most recent projects he continues to investigate the relationship between people, animals and nature. His work won several international prizes and was published in a book by Hannibal and Lannoo publishers.