
Lalo de Almeida brazilian, b. 1970
39 3/8 x 26 in
English version:
ALTAMIRA, PA, Brazil. 09/01/2013. A party of the workers of Belo Monte dam on the river bank in Altamira. On the last weekend of the month when the workers received their salary, Altamira became a chaotic mess. With a crowd of drunk men seeking to court the few available women, it took very little to rise to a knife fight. Construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam created the greatest wave of migration in Brazil in recent years. Thousands headed to Altamira in the heart of the Amazon. At the peak of the construction for the plant at the beginning of 2015, the sites housed more than 25,000 construction workers, 70 percent of which were from other parts of the country. 87 percent of them were men.