This image from Ipanema's highly imaginative gay street carnival is part of "Carnival on Canvas" an ongoing photographic essay, begun in 1987, which records three diverse components of Rio de Janeiro's street carnival. The photographer employs a weathered tarpaulin to create an instant studio background for these images.

Literature:
Carnival na Lona, Editorial Aeroplano, Rio de Janeiro, 2001
(A monograph of Rogerio Reis's photographic essay)