It Began In Ipanema - Daniel Haaksman culture as well as homosexuality and

as well as homosexuality and prostitution

with selections of his poetry that are long out of print

a collaboration between writer Rachel Spence and photographer Giacomo Cosua

along with images from live performance spectacles The White to Be Angry

It Began In Ipanema - Daniel Haaksman culture as well as homosexuality andSorry, the music from Rio de Janeiro has been travelling the world since decades. For Non Brazilians, everything seemed to begin in Ipanema: a guitar chord, a soft melody, a girl walking by. Enough to transform a city into a myth. However, samba rose from the hills, far from the beach. And baile funk emerged from the favelas rather than Copacabana. Berlin DJ and music producer Daniel Haaksman looks behind the curtain of postcard clichs and explores