Until the End

• Photographer
  Peter Bauza, Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, 2014... 30 degrees centigade, high levels of
humidity, 12 football cities spread accross Brazil from North to
South....a challenge for all teams, visitors and fans. But Brazil as a
country managed to organize the FIFA event and Germany won the
final against Argentina.

But this was not the only challenge. In this special World Cup Year,
Brazil had to face that football can´t be everything. Anti-World
Cup protests took place and more are to be expected, claiming in
general more money to be spent on social projects.

Beside this, football fans from around the world enjoyed this
wonderful city, claiming to be the most beautiful on earth.

Fans also occupied the streets of all main football cities and
started to show what football really means "Outside" the greens
and stadiums.

It is more than a passion...it is about fanaticism, feelings, pains,
phantasies, dreams, emotions, religions, recognition, believing,
blood in veins....involving families, churches, politics...Some of
them would even give their life it!

This is a capture from a body of work I did during the FIFA WC
2015

• Awards
  WorldPressPhoto 2017, Visa Pour L'Image 2016 (Visa D'or), American Photography AP31+32, LAF 5, POYLat 2017, Prix De La Photographie Paris, Days Japan Photojournalism Award 2016, Mifa, Hansel-Mieth, among others.