Luana Viegas is a Photographer and Creative Director who runs a boutique agency between Brazil, France and the UK. But in her own city she treats Rio the way it asks to be treated: outdoors, in the street, nothing planned. A Flamengo fan by inheritance (“no choice whatsoever”). Rio, she says, is fever – in the best way.
People in Rio are always in the streets — daytime, the beach, bars, surfing, street markets, rarely a plan behind any of it. I’ll go out, and if something remindsme of someone I’ll text them and see if they’re about. It works better than any agenda — even though cariocas always bail at the last minute, lol.
Flamengo, I inherited from my Dad, but it makes me happy when they are in a good wave of wins, which usually comes with excuses to see your friends and sit down at a bar.
I don’t wear the same shirt twice if I saw the team losing while I was wearing it.
Maracanã is the most famous. It means something for everyone; most of the big concerts happen there, too.
The infrastructure of Aterro do Flamengo is a big collective moment on Sundays, cyclists, families, and a bunch of sports happening. A public ritual on a Sunday.
Open bars. We are aaaaalways outdoors.
Mushroom croquettes at Isca Bar, Glória.
Deja Vu in Glória; artists, good talks, a big celebration of creativity. After a while, you know people who are going to be there every weekend.
Livraria Travessa, a bookshop in Botafogo, they have a playlist that will always romanticise your life.
Destilaria Maravilha, coolest structure in the coolest street.
Bar da Bambina; pool tables & drunk people on karaoke.
Italy, any match, the nonnas and nonnos are so good to watch.
If you can’t find tickets to a match go to a street that has several bars, you will see football carnival.
Learn a bit of Portuguese just to understand what the vendors scream at the beach; it’s hilarious.
