The above collage represents my first week in Rio reporting for  theriobook.com  For those of you who do not know, I am in Rio de Janeiro on assignment for my own book. The final chapter of my work here for the last couple of years on and off. While most of us do have an aversion to paying for information on the net, I think this lowest possible fee is for something tangible for many of you.

In fact a very low cost one month “workshop” where I am interacting with this audience while I finish up the shooting and am doing the major thinking about title , layout, and the overall feel for the book. Those of you who are interested in the photo essay and book making will benefit most. If you join us you will receive a 10% discount on the book which debuts in May of 2012.

While I am now self assigned this time in Rio, I was here prior on assignment for NatGeo Magazine which will also be published in 2012. All of the combined work from this NG assignment and my own subsidizing will be ONE NIGHT IN RIO. This now feels like I am in the process of making my best work, albeit will be controversial for some.

Why controversial? First it will not look like things I have done before. Stylistically looser. Second, some of the subject matter will be a bit edgier than my norm. Why change? Because I feel that photographers should never get stuck in their own parameter. Repeating is creative death. Besides RIO just feels loose. It feels like the collage above, which is a layout technique I never would have used for Divided Soul for example. I am NOT saying the above is the layout. I just know the layout will not look like Div Soul either. Maybe a combo. Maybe a tabloid. Thinking thinking.

ONE NIGHT IN RIO is a diary. Not fiction. Yet not a catalog of RIO either. Just one story, just one feeling. A representation of one night out that changed this author forever.  Done 99% with iPhone so far.. Join me for the final build out of  this essay. I have been here now for a week. I have three weeks to go. The work has just begun.

27 thoughts on “ONE NIGHT IN RIO”

  1. eva

    Why change? Because you grow, and never stop. The beauty of life, growth has no end.. and smart human beings keep being open..

    Nice stuff happening over in RIO!

  2. wendy

    LOVE this collage……
    sexy
    and
    confidant….
    and
    FULL
    of life…..
    it
    explodes
    with
    passion…..
    VIVA!!!!!
    I feel it….
    and
    celebrate it…..
    ****

  3. a civilian-mass audience

    “I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.”
    W. Clement Stone

    Action…Reaction…

    and my reaction to MR.HARVEY’S RIO BOOK is…:

    Where the heck is my ouzo…?:))))))))))))))

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  6. a civilian-mass audience

    if you wonder where the other BURNIANS have gone…

    this I have to say…

    WE ARE ALL IN RIOOOOOOOO…!!!

  7. a civilian-mass audience

    I am missing some BURNIANS…hmmm…and you don’t want me to bring over my famous lists..therefore please REPORT ASAP…here or in THE RIO BOOK

    you have been warned…

    HERVEEEEEEEEEE…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. a civilian-mass audience

    ok…HERVE is in RIO book…

    BOBBY BLACK…

    JOHNYG…

    FROSTYYYY…

    AUDREY…

    JIMP…

    SAMMYYYYY…

    I will keep calling BURNIANS…Circle of life…circle of Friends…

  9. a civilian-mass audience

    and PANOS…you may report in any aisle…

    as I said…the key is under the third pot…next to the dying azalea…

  10. Andrew Wiese

    I love the whole Rio thing happening here; I would have ‘risked’ more than the buck99 before it started, but there is so much more value there — thank-you!

  11. Frostfrog

    I would have risked more than the buck99 too – but I never would have considered it a risk.

    Rio has come at kind of a mildy trying time for, but I am loving every frame and every word written. And everyday, I am left with more to think about as I prepare to move own career to the next step.

  14. panos skoulidas

    ALL, as I wrote on Rio isle , my Internet connection here is as good as the southern European economy ..smiling… Sorry for being “late for work” AGAIN but I’m sure that “all eyes are on RIO” so nobody needs my rants..laughing…
    Plus Vissaria is taking up all my time… ( and that’s great because she is teaching me a lot these days)..
    We are shooting together and I’m learning learning learning..
    I spend the day learning from Vissaria and the nights learning learning learning from DAH/ Roberta/ Renata and from the gorgeous BRAZIL

    http://instagr.am/p/WJJ8n/

  20. a civilian-mass audience

    EVA,VIVA…you are always on duty…!!!

    VISSARIA…rock on my LADY!!!

    I will be back with some stolen stuff from RIO BOOK…shhhh…I have the urge to spread the news…shhh:)))

  21. a civilian-mass audience

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN HARVEY !!!

    “This boy is coming to Rio. Soon. He is 40 years old today. Happy Birthday Erin. My youngest son was with me here in Rio two years ago for Carnaval and costumed himself and paraded in the Sambódromo with one of the local samba schools along with yoga guru Michelle Smith, my other son Bryan’s most significant. Here pictured with Erin is Sophie, Erin’s wife of 10 years, and a professor of film at Vassar College.

    Erin is a filmmaker. His most recent piece on television was The Presidents Photographers which aired on PBS and was centered around Pete Souza , Barack Obama’s personal photographer. Prior Erin was nominated for an Emmy for his documentary Gorilla Murders and he was also the Director of Photography for a French language feature film Autumn. I am not sure how many films Erin has made, but a lot. I doubt he has counted either.

    Both of my sons rip it on the water and in the air. Surfers, kite boarders, pilots. Erin was here in Rio last time to see me a bit, but mostly to head up north for the strong kite boarding winds…”

    aha,I copy and paste…that’s what I do…!!!

    BURNIANS,I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

  23. a civilian-mass audience

    “head over to theriobook.com and you see!”

    running,EVA…running:)
    like BOBBYB….

  25. a civilian-mass audience

    HERVE,HERVE…your contribution in BURNLAND …priceless…

    and where is MARCIN…MARCINNNNNNN,wake up…:)

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