Paraty in Focus 2011

© Photo Sadayuki Mikami. Protests against the construction of Narita Airport. Tokyo, 1978.

The image of a man in flames during violent protests against the construction of Narita Airport, won the World Press Photo 1978. The author is Sadayuki Mikami. This striking picture was taken on March 26, 1978.

Photo © Britta Jaschinski. Cheetah chasing after a forest fire in Ndutu. Tanzania, 2010.
The German photographer Britta Jaschinski, who resides in London, was the winner of GDT European Wildlife Photographer 2010, with a black-and-white photo of a cheetah chasing after a forest fire in Tanzania. She was the first woman to win the overall prize of the contest, which is in its tenth edition and is organized by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen, the German Society for Nature Photographers. See more photos of Britta Here

© Photo by Dmitry Medvedev. The current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev photographed the historic fortress of the Kremlin in Siberia during a helicopter flight in the pre-election campaign of 2008.
This beautiful photograph of a historic fortress of the Kremlin in Siberia was made by the current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a helicopter flight in the pre-election campaign of 2008. Earlier this year, the picture was auctioned for 51 million rubles, or 1.2 million, making it one of most expensive photographs of Russia. The Russian politician always carries the ...

Clicio Barroso is the guest of the program on Channel Photo Scene in Brazil (66 Globosat) today, Thursday, November 11, 20:15

Photo © William Klein. By analyzing images of photographers and visual artists, the workshop will discuss some of the ways that help in searches for the construction of the concept image.
Registrations are open for the free workshop on building concept in the photographic image, given by Mickel Petruccelli. The event is part of Journalism Week UFRJ - Meioameios. The workshop takes place next Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 15 hours. When it comes to building concept in the photographic image, than ...

Photo © René Burri. Che Guevara granting an exclusive interview at the Hotel Riviera. Havana, 1963.
Earlier this year, the Swiss photographer René Burri gave an interview to British newspaper The Guardian counting as did the famous photograph of Che Guevara smoking a cigar, an image that ran the world. "In 1958, one year before the revolution, the Magnum Agency wanted to send me to Cuba because they had achieved contact with the rebels. I had just spent six months in South America and said he could not stand this ... more

On November 20/11, held in Sao Paulo another edition of Photo Barter, an ancient form of trade that does not use the money, but the well itself. The idea is to change a photo by another without the value added the relevance of the author. A pure and simple exchange to foster the habit of owning and collecting photographs

Photo © Arthur Omar. Afghanistan, 2002.
In 2002, artist, filmmaker and photographer Arthur Omar went to Afghanistan with the dream of recovering a piece of two giant Buddha statues in the city of Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban to view it Biennale of Art Sao Paulo. The book Journey to Afghanistan (Cosac Naify) is a result of this expedition, carried out with "three cameras and a bodyguard of mercenaries," as the author explains at the beginning of the work. With 626 photographs selected from the ...

© Photo by Geraldo de Barros. Self-Portrait, 1949.

From this Wednesday, November 10, 2010, the Center for Contemporary Art and Photography Clovis Salgado Foundation in Belo Horizonte, receives the exhibition "Modern Forever - The Modernist Photography Collection in Brazilian Itaú", with works by José Oiticica Filho, Marcel Giro, German Lorca, José Thomaz Farkas and Yalenti, among others. It is a show that features clipping of a collection of photographs of Itaú, plunging movement fotoclubista especially in Brazil. Cannabrava according to IATA, curator of the show, ...

The latest issue of National Geographic Brazil offers an exciting story that tells the story of a young female manatee that was found in 2002. Today, eight years old, 238 kg and more than two meters long, it just made her first appearance on a magazine cover with photos of Luciano Candisani