r/AccidentalRenaissance • u/prostipope • 1d ago

Brazilian mine workers clashing with police

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u/Exiledbrazillian 1d ago

Photo by Sebastião Salgado.

Local: "Serra Pelada" (Naked Hill). Very famous in childhood.

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u/TVDinner360 1d ago

Username checks out! 🤣 Thanks for the info.

For others interested in learning a bit more, here’s the Wikipedia article. It’s frustratingly spare, though.

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u/jkohlc 1d ago

Go watch "The Salt of the Earth" by Salgado

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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 1d ago

Did the mine dispute end amicably?

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u/Exiledbrazillian 1d ago edited 20h ago

It was a war. A literally war. Thousands of deaths.

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u/Mama_Skip 1d ago

Yes the owner gave the workers their fair share, declared world peace, and took everyone out for ice cream.

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u/DaphniaDuck 1d ago

One of the greatest photographers of all time.

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u/Responsible-Bat-2699 1d ago

Wow, every one of the people are standing in a way which could be a reference for artists to draw. This is a really good picture.

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u/vasha99 1d ago

I bet 20 on the miner.

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u/drvladmir 1d ago

I bet 50 on the guy with the rifle.

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u/Rough_Idle 1d ago

Miner: "Look around. Shooting me doesn't make you safer.".

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u/Critical_Liz 1d ago

Reminds me of the coal miners in Chernobyl "You'll run out of bullets and there will still be enough of us left to beat the living piss out of you."

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u/MonolithicBaby 1d ago

I got 100 on the guy next to the cop with the bag o rocks

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u/Dockhead 1d ago

You mean the guy holding an arm that’s holding a bag of rocks?

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u/Y0knapatawpha 1d ago

Based on the miners quads, this doesn’t end well for the soldier.

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u/palindrom_six_v2 1d ago

That man can genuinely kick like a mule.

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u/VikingTwilight 1d ago

Stupid sexy mine workers...

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u/No-Television8759 1d ago

Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all... nothing at all

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u/Useful_Low_3669 1d ago

Thanks for not calling them sexy miners

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u/DuckOk4300 1d ago

real working muscles, no weight room ! 👍

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u/Kurraa870 1d ago

Like for real, these guy looks like an ancient greek statue.

HUGE LEGS

Small chest

Developed arms

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u/HAgaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy 1d ago

Thank god. I thought I was going to be the only creep noticing that he has the body of a Greek god

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u/seasickbaby 1d ago

What year?

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u/bojo21 1d ago

legit looks like a drawing lol

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u/ShadowFlarer 1d ago

If i'm not mistaking there's a movie and a tv series, wich is basicaly the movie but recut into a better experience, about the Serra Pelada gold mine.

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u/Ok-Construction-7740 1d ago

What year was it form?

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u/Material_Lime8912 1d ago

I think mid-late 1980s

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u/The_Haunt 1d ago

Are we just going to ignore the guy holding a dismembered arm that is then holding a bag?

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u/DismalAd3048 1d ago

Someone else cut the arm off, he was left holding the bag

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u/The_Haunt 1d ago

Lmao, thanks for that one.

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u/Yeti_Rider 1d ago

That's his right arm ya plonker 😄

He's standing on a really angled bit of a hill and above the camera, so it looks like that spare arm's elbow is in line with his hip.

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u/The_Haunt 1h ago

Ok hear me out, I looked again and it obviously is an enormous weenier with a hand for the tip.

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u/Ulrik-the-freak 7h ago

Why are rebels always so hawt? Bro looking like a Greek god while grappling a rifle, jfc

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u/Brilliant_Ad_3764 1d ago

The guy in the back looks like Javier bardem

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u/thesecondshow 22h ago

Also the book cover of ‘Disposable People’ by Kevin Bales. Highly recommend.