Favela da Mare in Rio de Janeiro is not a slum, but a compound of slums,several communities together,as if they were different quarters,an almost - informal city with about 150.000 inhabitants. The beginning of the occupation executes in the area of the Favela da Mare felt in the decade of 1940 - period of stronger proliferation of slums in Rio de Janeiro.The comparison of the space of the slum with the myth of the maze is inevitable.In a lot of civilizations, the maze is the symbol of the difficult tests, for the she should pass to penetrate in a new world or in a new state of mind. But a great difference exists between slum and the Greek mythical maze projected by Dédalo - the architect. The slum doesn't have any previous plant; she was not drawn, projected. The maze - slum is more complex, because it is not fixed, finishing, is in constant transformation.

Series of photographs-''Waiting for hope''.Copyright Agnieszka Balut.