"The Beach" -2006 These images are from Ipanema Beach in Rio De Janeiro during the week of Carnaval 2006. Ipanema beach is right in the trendiest part of the urban center so it is very much a place to see and be seen. It is absolutely loaded with social codes of fashion and behavior. Each part of the beach is home to a specific clique or type of social group. There is a quieter section of the beach where there are a lot of families, a raucous section filled with teenagers smoking pot and playing soccer, a gay section and so on. I was interested in the people on the beach in terms of what defined and created the boundaries of their groups. Photographing people together in this context was a way of thinking about the cultural visibility of social groups and the production of their public images.