![Matheus Affonso considers himself an “LGBT photographer” and believes it’s important to “portray a population that is often invisible inside the favela”, or slum area. Matheus Affonso considers himself an “LGBT photographer” and believes it’s important to “portray a population that is often invisible inside the favela”, or slum area.](https://global.unitednations.entermediadb.net/assets/mediadb/services/module/asset/downloads/preset/Libraries/Production+Library/20-02-2020_UN-Rio_Favela-04.jpg/image770x420cropped.jpg)
Photographers in Rio de Janeiro, have been focusing on the human rights of disenfranchised groups living in the Brazilian city’s slum areas.
Matheus Affonso considers himself an “LGBT photographer” and believes it’s important to “portray a population that is often invisible inside the favela”, or slum area.
Matheus Affonso
![The exhibit “If the Streets Were Ours, Our voice, our rights our future” at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro. The exhibit “If the Streets Were Ours, Our voice, our rights our future” at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro.](https://global.unitednations.entermediadb.net/assets/mediadb/services/module/asset/downloads/preset/Libraries/Production+Library/24-02-2020-Brazil-exhibit-01.jpg/image770x420cropped.jpg)
The photos were all selected to be part of a United Nations-supported exhibition in Rio de Janeiro on human rights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
UN Brazil/Naiara Azevedo