Jaqueline wipes tears during her debutante ball, organized for her and other teenage girls from the Santa Marta “favela” slum by the Pacifying Police Unit from their neighborhood, inside a ballroom in Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The ball, which relied on volunteers who coiffed and made up the girlsContinue reading “Favela Debutante Ball: Photographer Silvia Izquierdo”
Jaqueline wipes tears during her debutante ball, organized for her and other teenage girls from the Santa Marta “favela” slum by the Pacifying Police Unit from their neighborhood, inside a ballroom in Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The ball, which relied on volunteers who coiffed and made up the girls and a formal wear shop that loaned the dresses, helped build goodwill between pacified favelas’ residents and the officers who patrol them. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) License this photo
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