João Pedro Almeida @t3mujin@photog.social

Just having fun at at the end of the day, nothing more, nothing less.
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Communal, public televisions are common in São Tomé, more often in rural areas but even in places like here, just outside the capital. And during cartoon hour it can become very crowded.
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Eating jackfruit by the Ana Chave Bay, in the city of São Tomé.
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Returning to the “big city”. The yellow vans, São Tomé’s public transportation, parked near the market. São Tomé 🇸🇹, 2014 #africa #saotomeandprincipe #saotome #t3mujinpack #jalmeidaportfolio⁠
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At the end of the afternoon, after the fishing boats returned from the sea and all fish has been sold, the fishy bowls are washed in the waves.
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A young boy going through the waves with his small canoe by
the mouth of Malanza river, in the south of the island.

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Fishing dugout boats sheltered in a small cove near the mouth of Malanza river, in the south of the island.
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Making new friends in the small fishing villages of Southern São Tomé.
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Beaches in the south of São Tomé are what paradise looks like before getting caught by mass tourism: empty of colorful reclining chairs and bars preparing cocktails, and with lots of debris brought by the waves that look so unpleasant in photos.
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Playing in the streets of Roça Monte Café, probably looking what the other girls in their group were up to.
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Some small-talk while lunch is being cooked at Roça Ribeira Peixe.
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Yes, there’s always, or almost, a group of energetic, playful kids following you, like here at Roça Soledad. And pictures must be taken.
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While the men go the to fields, often deep into the jungle, and children go to school, the women mostly remain close to their homes and the roça, busy with everyday chores.
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2014 was election year at São Tomé and Principe, one where power changed hands, and many in the island where proudly wearing the caps or shirts from their side of the election, or even hanging posters in their homes.
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This could have been a consulting room or a ward many decades ago, now it’s a kitchen in one of the homes inside the old hospital building at Roça Água-Izé.
São Tomé 🇸🇹, 2014
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Event the apparently derelict and abandoned buildings end up being occupied and turned into homes, at least until that’s possible. Here a young girl returns from school, while avoiding the water that has invaded the ground floor of the old Água-Izé hospital building.
São Tomé 🇸🇹, 2014
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The roasted corn seller and her boyfriend, at one of the streets of the sanzala (workers quarters) of Roça Água-Izé.
São Tomé 🇸🇹, 2014
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