Fotocrônica: Political Graffiti

Recently I described my observations on Belo Horizonte’s graffiti scene.  I saved two photos for later because there is another sub-genre of graffiti that doesn’t fit into the general definitions I described in my first post.  Political graffiti is a category of its own, and is often done for different reasons than why someone would tag or create an artistic graffiti mural.

I didn’t see much political graffiti in most sections of Belo Horizonte that I visited.  However, in the favela next to the neighborhood where I was staying–Estrela d’Alva–these two graffiti stencils were everywhere.