Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The waiting room at Santa Casa Hospital.
Dr. Ramil consults a patient.
Operating room at Santa Casa Hospital.
A burn victim receives a hair transplant.
A rhinoplasty.
Dr. Eduardo Passamai
Mammoplasty
Mammoplasty
A burn victim receives a hair transplant by Dr. Henry Radwaski and his team.
A burn victim receives a hair transplant by Dr. Henry Radwaski and his team.
Hair folicles are separated for a hair transplant.
A young burn victim undergoes a scar revision.
Dr. Eduardo Passamai irrigates a young patient's head wound.
Belford Roxo Clinic
Young patient at the Belford Roxo Clinic.
Doctors and security guards come together late at night to play music at the Belford Roxo Clinic.
An emergency patient at the Belford Roxo Clinic.
Belford Roxo Clinic.
Mammoplasty
Santa Casa Hospital
Mammoplasty
Mammoplasty
Mammoplasty
Jesus Municipal Hospital
Dr. Ivo Pitanguy visits the doctors at Santa Casa Hospital.
Belford Roxo Clinic
Hair follicle biopsy
Dr. Radwaski performs a hair transplant on a burn victim.
Burn revision
Burn revision
Dr. Marcelo at Jesus Municipal Hospital
Mammoplasty
Belford Roxo Clinic

I traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from June until August of 2009.  Part of my time was spent teaching a youth photography class to students in the favela, Cantagalo, and part of my time was spent documenting the work of the Ivo Pitanguy Clinic.  “It is a non-profit entity aimed at the instruction, research and disclosure of the Plastic Surgery as well as the provision of free medical services in the restoring Plastic Surgery area for the low income’s population. Approximately 50,000 patients have already been operated in the 38th Infirmary of Santa Casa da Misericórdia hospital, an average of 1,800 surgeries per year made in the three surgery rooms that compound the surgical center.”

For more information on the Ivo Pitanguy Institute’s work please see their website: http://www.pitanguy.com.br/index.htm