Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
$100 - $10000 / Day
Request QuoteI'm a 34-year-old self-taught photographer, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, and I document life in Brazil. I work independently for national and international media. The personal documentation I do is about the socio-environmental issue: such as Vale's crime in Mariana and Brumadinho, illegal gold mining in the Amazon, the culture of the Kayapó Menkragnoti people and the difficult struggle of the Kaiowá and Guarani for their lands in Mato Grosso do Sul. And my published work — for medias such as Reuters Agency, Bloomberg News and the UOL — generally involves factual coverage of what happens in Rio de Janeiro. I have been a freelancer for the Reuters since 2013 and, since 2019, I have worked as a consultant for the Kabu Institute (a non-profit organization of the Kayapó Menkragnoti indigenous people) giving audiovisual training workshops to young people in the villages.
Documentation about the “homem garimpeiro” (“gold miner man”) and their illegal work in the Amazon rainforest. Who are these men? Why are they there? How did they get there? How do they see the situation in the Amazon?
My documentation is focused on the Mebêngôkre Kayapó Mekrãgnoti subgroup, which inhabits the Menkragnoti Indigenous Land in southern Pará, demarcated in 1994 and inhabited by around 1300 indigenous people according to the last research (2010). The work presented here has been documented for Kabu Institute and, consequently, with the permission and consent of the village leaders and the people portraited in the photographs. Started in 2019.
There are 280 thousand Guaranis living in Latin America. In Brazil, we have 60 thousand Guarani Kaiowá and Ñandeva living in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. They suffer one of the most violations of human rights in Brazil as a result of the ruralist front, a parliamentary segment that acts on behalf of farmers to strengthen agrobusiness. The Guaranis and Kaiowás resist for 524 years.
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