The Last Hour of Summer/ Arpoador: Sunday Evenings in Rio de Janeiro

Join CLACS and Espacio de Culturas for the this exhibition opening. Curated by Peter Lucas, it brings two striking visual archives into conversation for the first time. In 2003, at a Rio de Janeiro flea market, Lucas discovered a collection of images by the late amateur photographer Orizon Caneiro Muniz. Taken in the early 1960s, Muniz’s work captured the vibrant life of Rio’s beaches and the people who frequented them. Inspired by this encounter, Lucas also captured 5,000 photographs, only on Sundays, using a 6 x 7 camera on the rocks of Arpoador, the same part of the Ipanema beach that Muniz documented 50 years earlier.

Join the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Espacio de Culturas for an opening reception featuring remarks from Peter Lucas, a curated gallery walk, and refreshments.

Filmmaker Peter Lucas (NYU CLACS, Experimental Humanitiees and Social Engagement, and Tisch Open Arts) works as a director, creative producer, and producer on documentary projects. In 2012, he won the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for his short films. In 2015, he was a Documentary Fellow at the Sundance Institute for his creative producing on the film Hooligan Sparrow, which was short-listed for the 2017 Oscars for best documentary. His most recent film is Before the Close of Day, a feature-length experimental documentary on Dante’s Purgatorio.

He received his Ph.D. in International Education at NYU in 1996. His teaching and writing focuses on human rights with an emphasis on participatory media, documentary practice, critical photojournalism, the poetics of witnessing, human rights and peace education, and youth media. His publications include, Viva Favela: Photojournalism, Visual Inclusion, and Human Rights in Brazil and Action for Disarmament: Ten Things You Can Do.

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