Sugar Children

In 1996, Vik Muniz travelled to a Brazilian sugar plantation in St. Kitt's, where he photographed the children of the labor workers. He recreated the portraits of the children with sugar from the plantation and black pepper. He titled each portrait with an adjective or fact of each child that he learned as he spent time with them.

Valentine, The Fastest. From "The Sugar Children Series." 1996.
Gelatin-silver print. 20 x 16". Courtesy Wooster Gardens, New York.

(http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1997/newphoto13/muniz.html)

Valicia Bathes in Sunday Clothes, from the series Sugar Children

(http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=36333)

"Big James Sweats Buckets" from the series "Sugar Children"

(http://www.6thousandmiles.com/2011/07/waste-land/)