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Can art reform Rio’s violent police force?

Office towers and favela, Rio de Janeiro. (Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D./Wikimedia Commons)
Office towers and favela, Rio de Janeiro. (Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D./Wikimedia Commons)

Tatiana Altberg is teaching police officers in Rio de Janeiro how to make and use pinhole cameras in the hopes that in some small way this can help them reflect on their lives and careers.

As part of an international artist-in-residence program, Altberg wants to use art to intervene in the hardened law-enforcement culture of one of the world’s most violent cities.

Altberg, who also works with children in a favela, where police embody the brutality that comes with poverty, sees her residency as an opportunity to build bridges.

Source: The Guardian

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