Forest Ruins: The Guarani Who Survive Beneath São Paulo
In São Paulo, Latin America’s largest city, the forest did not vanish—it was paved over. Amid highways and high-rises, Guarani villages still preserve language, spirituality, and territory, unseen by a metropolis that expanded without ever truly looking. In Forest Ruins, photographer Rafael Vilela chronicles six years of presence and trust, turning the camera into an act of listening—an archaeology of the present that reveals not only Guarani resilience, but the fractures of our own blindness.