The Flower's Paradise.

Flor de Bastion is a small sector located in the north of Ecuador’s economic center, Guayaquil. The sector and its people have experienced much adversity, and feels like an entirely different world from the city center it borders by just 9 miles. Nowhere is this contrast more apparent than in El Paraiso De la Flor , which translates to “The Flower's Paradise.” It is the main road of the city of Flor de Bastion, and contains all varieties of shops, restaurants, and schools. Flor de Bastion is a large neighborhood where mostly low-income working families live. El Paraiso serves as their center for everything from groceries and barber shops, to knock off clothing stores and sidewalk tattoo parlors.

I lived in this area for a total of around a year, and traveled on this road almost every day during that time. I wanted to document the diverse range of activities that take place on this road, as well as capture every day life in this area.