On the Avenida Prestes Maia, one of São Paulo's main thoroughfares, house number 911 consists of two gray apartment blocks that were once thought to be the most modern buildings in all of Latin America. The vacant high-rises were occupied in 2002 by 460 homeless families. These are the squatters Bittencourt captures in his photo series, without however forcing his way into their immediate living space. In a strict formal composition he portrays the inhabitants looking out of windows of the building. In this way he tells a story about the unconquerable longing people feel for a place they can call home, no matter how squalid and precarious. 
 
 
Publisher: DBA
Photographs: Julio Bittencourt
Text: Ronaldo Entler
Designer: Emanuel Della Nina
28x28 cm | 80 pages | Portuguese
ISBN 978-85-7234-378-7