A barber talks to a neighbour while giving a customer a pre-carnival haircut in the Dona Marta favela Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APPeople dance in the Mameludicos Euforicos street carnival parade, a more accessible event than the large-scale festivities in Rio's SambadromePhotograph: Rodrigo Abd/APPerformers dance in the rain during a street carnival parade Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
A woman dances amid orange smoke during the Bloco da Lama carnival parade. Revellers plaster themselves in mud during this raucous event in Paraty, a coastal town south of Rio de JaneiroPhotograph: Rodrigo Abd/APThis year's 'King Momo', Milton Rodrigues, is flanked by the carnival queen and two princesses as he holds the key of the city during a ceremony to officially open carnival celebrations. King Momo is the mythical figure who reigns over the chaos of carnivalPhotograph: Rodrigo Abd/APA woman looks in the mirror as she prepares for Sunday's carnival parade in the SambadromePhotograph: Rodrigo Abd/APA woman sings during a carnival parade at the Sambadrome Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APA man fans himself as the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school dancers perform at the Sambadrome Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APA member of the Salgueiro samba school parades in the Sambadrome Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APA Mangueira samba school dancer poses for a photographer Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APA samba school dancer rests after a carnival parade at the Sambadrome Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APSpectators watch the Grande Rio samba school parade in the rainPhotograph: Rodrigo Abd/APWomen watch the Unidos da Tijuca samba school in the 90,000-capacity Sambadrome, which is purpose built for the city's numerous samba schools to parade down during carnival Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APPerformers leave the Sambadrome at the end of carnival celebrations Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APPeople gather at a gay carnival celebration held the day after the end of the official carnival parades in the SambadromePhotograph: Rodrigo Abd/APA woman takes a break at a gay carnival celebration Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
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