Flavio
Directed by Gordon Parks1964 12m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary), [Short](/on-demand/category/short)
7.06.3
While on assignment to document poverty in Brazil for Life magazine, African-American photographer Gordon Parks encountered one of the most important subjects of his career: Flávio da Silva. Parks featured the resourceful, ailing boy, who lived with his family in one of Rio's working-class neighborhoods known as favelas, in his 1961 photo essay "Freedom's Fearful Foe: Poverty".
