Lalo de Almeida
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Born1970 (age 54–55)
AlmamaterIstituto Europeo di Design, Milan
KnownforPhotography
Notable work"Amazonian Dystopia"
Lalo de Almeida | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 54–55) |
| Alma mater | Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan |
| Known for | Photography |
| Notable work | "Amazonian Dystopia" |
| Awards | W. Eugene Smith Grant 2021 |
| Website | lalodealmeida |
Lalo de Almeida (born 1970)[1] is a Brazilian documentary photographer based in São Paulo.[2] He has been co-winner of the W. Eugene Smith Grant[3] and has twice won first prize awards in the World Press Photo Contest.[4][5]
Almeida studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy. Since the late 1990s, he has worked in Brazil for the daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo and since 2005 for The New York Times.[6] Since 2020, he has been represented by Panos Pictures.[1] His long-term project Amazonian Dystopia is about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, by logging, gold mining and hydroelectric power generation, under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro.[7]
Publications
- Nas Asas do Correio Aéreo: a rota do Tocantins = Flying with the airmail service. São Paulo: Metalivros, 2002. ISBN 978-8585371449. Edited by Isio Bacaleinick and with text by Tânia Carvalho. Brazilian Portuguese-language edition.
Short video documentaries
- A World of Walls
- The Battle of Belo Monte
- The Climate Crisis
