*forever~Raica*

Raica Oliveira by Gabriel Mendes 2007 in New York I was strolling through Shopping Leblon here in Rio and got the chance to see photographer Gabriel Mendes' work, "Urban Puns - Trocadilhos Urbanos", on display there. It is part of "Arena da Moda", a fashion event that Shopping Leblon is promoting from September 11-22. These are urban portraits, mostly everyday-people shot in front of street-art murals, that were shot in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and New York, where Mendes resides. There are 12 photo panels in total, and though I thought they were not greatly displayed in the mall, the images itself were quite fetching. This visual diary has been a Mendes' project since 2005, when he started mixing portraits and graffiti art in NYC. Brazilian top model Raica is the subject of one of his photographs in this show. urbanpuns.bmp urbanpuns.bmp

I love the yves saint laurent party pics.

Raica entering the Twilight saga, hehe

Wow, cool!

Know from which year? 2001 I think.

I love this pic:

Some more from photoshoot:

omg! Stunning & hot! :mignonne:

From photoshoot:

Oh, I hope there will be pics of Raica from the event!!

Thanks , mandarinaduck made it.

Thank you for the pics! Here is a sketch of Raica I found on Flickr:

I just waited & after a while they appeared on a different site from which I just saved them on my comp. Oh,ok. Sometimes I just hate to have to wait for new pics to come. There is a lot of them , there is just no way to download them unless you wait for some site to get them.

Thanks for the pics mandarina , how did you manage to take them from the throttleman page I tried to get them but it was impossible?

Thanks or the pics mandarina!

Thanks for all the pics marien, but try to post less reposts.

Photographer: Fabian Gloeden Source: Flickr

Ana BB , Raica, Fernanda & Aline

Raica at the beach , Sports Illustrated photoshoot:

Thanks minus1!

Wow... Thanks mandarina!

C&A with Ricky Martin