Riocities was edited from more than 40,000 pictures made in the last decade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in addition to historical images from public archives. The book can be framed within a specific context: the accelerated process of urban transformations that Rio has gone through in recent years to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Parallel to this narrative, another conflict takes place here: documentary photographs pose as evidences of objective reality, due to the verisimilitude they keep with the visible world; at the same time, they suggest that we can abstract them, read them as symbols for metaphorical cities, imagined or potential worlds that exist only in memory, in dreams or in language.