When Chico Max decided to mount an exhibition of photographs of recent immigrants to Brazil, he had a harder time finding subjects than he expected. That is because just 600,000 of the 204m people living in the country are foreign-born. The small pool of potential sitters surprised Mr Max. Nearly everyone in Brazil is descended from immigrants or African slaves; only the United States has a bigger non-indigenous population. The country's president is the daughter of a Bulgarian; the vice-president has a road named after him in Lebanon. All of Mr Max's grandparents came from Portugal between the two world wars. As the title of his show this month in Sao Paulo proclaimed, "We are all immigrants".
展开▼
