pictures of favelas are difficult to find, both because they are not normally the focus of artistic photography, and because journalistic photography has either been limited to episodes of police intervention, or simply not possible due to the presence of gang members.

a wonderful self-portrait of the city with focus on favelas is given by many contributing photographers on the website rio de janeiro autor retrato (rio de janeiro author's portrait).

fotofavela is a website specifically presenting the best images from the viva favela community journalism project.