Luzia, the Favela was published in one of Gordon Parks’ best known photo essays, a study of the mountainside slums called favelas overlooking Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (June 16, 1961: “Freedom’s Fearful Foe: Poverty.”) The poignant pictures of Flavio da Silva, a thin and sickly boy who lived in a one-room shack with nine other family members, including his sister Luzia, moved the readers of Life, who sent money to the magazine to help out Flavio’s family. (Parks told one of his biographers that Life received thirty thousand dollars within the first month, as well as concerned queries as to where food and clothing could be sent.) Parks would soon return to Brazil to bring Flavio back to the United States for asthma treatment.