The portraits in this book were taken by anonymous photographers "lambelambe" on the streets of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, without the intention of being seen by a general public. The photographs were taken initially for private clients who needed portraits for administrative purposes. Today we have the opportunity to see these portraits thanks to the custom of the photographers to throw the negatives in the street. The negatives were printed once and then discarded in the sewer where the German artist Joachim Schmid found them, who was recovering them in the course of ten years. For Schmid, this collection of portraits is a treasure. The photographers used very simple equipment and processed the rolls and the paper quickly, without considering a record of the work. In spite of the little artistic process, or perhaps for that reason, the images are as striking and as strong as many of the portraits of the masters of this sort. Together they form a collective portrait of the city's population composed at random and are both a document of a bygone era, replaced by the cleaning of the process of digital photography, which leaves no litter in sight on the streets. 101 photographs
