PROJECTS: The Hinterland: sertao_16_20151115sertao0066

Campo Alegre de Lourdes, Brazil. Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015.Pamela dos Reis, 8, collects dead, brittle wood from the dried caatinga, the native vegetation of the Sertão, to be used as fuel for cooking. A typical diet includes couscous, some dried meat and fat, and instant coffee. The cycle of poverty that exists for nearly 1/3 of the regional population is major social inequality issue in which poor families become impoverished for generations.

Campo Alegre de Lourdes, Brazil. Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015.

Pamela dos Reis, 8, collects dead, brittle wood from the dried caatinga, the native vegetation of the Sertão, to be used as fuel for cooking. A typical diet includes couscous, some dried meat and fat, and instant coffee. The cycle of poverty that exists for nearly 1/3 of the regional population is major social inequality issue in which poor families become impoverished for generations.