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Lenny saw my Contax G2 (Jürgen Teller's and Terry Richardson's favourite camera) and told me that it was his favourite camera too. Great beginning :) I didn't know before that he was a passionate photographer. We started telling each other about our photography adventures. He told me that before or after a grandiose concert in Rio de Janeiro, he wanted to go with some Brazilian friends to a notorious favela. Security accompanied them. But this time they were carrying weapons. Now Lenny was not so sure anymore if this was a good idea. When they drove into the favela, everything was still good. The people recognised him and cheered him. But the deeper Lenny drove with his team into the favela, the stranger it got. More and more often he saw armed men looking down from the houses. It ended with a man with a heavy machine gun and grenades on his belt, telling him to stop here and not to drive a single bit further. They turned back immediately.

Then it was up to me and I told him about my extremely bizarre and disturbing experience in the house of Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal.