How do you photograph what you can’t see? That’s the obstacle that Chilean photographer Tomás Munita faced as he traveled to the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to photograph the story of the Zika virus.

Unlike other stories Munita has photographed, the main character was hidden. The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also carries the dengue and chikungunya viruses, conceals itself in puddles of water, bottle caps, and litter, all of which go ignored on the streets. However, Munita discovered that the insect’s wrath was visible in the people that he met, whose lives have been turned upside down by Zika. “Mosquitos teem in poor areas,” said Munita over email, “so most of the affected people are in very difficult