The first group of selected entries for the FotoDoc Photo Contest 2026 has now been published on our website. Submissions remain open until June 30, and the contest’s curatorial team reviews, selects, and publishes works on a rolling basis throughout...

Festival FotoDoc is pleased to announce that submissions for the FotoDoc Photo Contest 2026 will open on December 1st. This is a unique opportunity for photographers seeking visibility for their authorial work within the expanded field of documentary photography —...

FotoDoc Photo Contest 2026 – Guidelines To better guide participants of the FotoDoc Photo Contest 2026 in preparing and submitting their entries, the festival’s curatorial team has compiled a series of questions and answers that serve as general guidelines. We...

FotoDoc Festival 2025 Horizons Our common home is on fire. Global warming has ceased to be a distant trend and has become an accelerating reality—one we must confront, compounded by the growing weight of denialism. In the year Brazil hosts...

EXPOSIÇÃO FOTODOC 2025 DE EDDO HARTMANN As imagens do projeto A Zona de Sacrifício, do holandês Eddo Hartmann, são capazes de fazer correr frio na espinha. De maneira precisa, sistemática e ao mesmo tempo empática, documentam destroços de instalações militares...

EXPOSIÇÃO FOTODOC 2025 DE ÉRICO HILLER "Entre 2023 e 2024, a Amazônia foi castigada pela maior seca já registrada, enquanto o Rio Grande do Sul ficou submerso pelas enchentes mais devastadoras testemunhadas no país em todos os tempos. O semiárido...

Falta pouco menos de um mês para a quarta edição do FotoDoc, Festival Internacional de Fotografia, que vai acontecer de 4 a 8 de novembro na Panamericana Escola de Arte e Design, em São Paulo (SP). Nossa missão é de...

The FotoDoc Photo Contest 2025 has revealed its winners. Márcio Vasconcelos was chosen by the Jury as the Overall Winner, with the portfolio Wizards and Healers: Bantu Magic across Africa, Cuba, and Maranhão. The work is the result of extensive...

Between November 4 and 8, 2025, FotoDoc Festival returns to the Panamericana School of Art and Design in São Paulo, bringing together photographers, artists, and an audience passionate about the power of documentary imagery. In addition to exhibitions and debates,...

From November 4 to 8, 2025, FotoDoc Festival offers, through its Portfolio Reviews, a unique opportunity for direct dialogue with curators, editors, and gallerists. During these five days, FotoDoc Festival will transform the Panamericana School of Art and Design in...

FotoDoc – International Photography Festival celebrates its fourth edition in 2025 and will take place from November 4 to 8 at Panamericana School of Art and Design, in São Paulo (SP). Thanks to a partnership with the Consulate of the...

At 66 years old, Maranhense photographer Márcio Vasconcelos builds a unique photographic trajectory that moves between anthropological research and authorial expression. A former Banco do Brasil employee who abandoned financial stability to dedicate himself to photography, he left behind a...

In Accra, Ghana, where she lives and works, photographer Natalija Gormalova builds a documentary practice that transforms the lens into an instrument for denunciation and celebration of human resilience. At 38 years old, the artist – who found in photography...

Documentary photography has been Nilmar Lage’s tool to help build the utopia of a fairer society. A journalism graduate based in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, he focuses on covering human rights and environmental issues, exposing exploitation and proposing alternatives to so-called...

A 45-year-old anthropologist and photographer from Belo Horizonte, Patrick Arley develops a photographic practice that challenges the boundaries between documentation and possession, academic research, and spiritual experience. With a trajectory connecting Brazil and Mozambique – where he lived during his...

In Salvador, where he lives and works, Vinicius Xavier builds a photography that is simultaneously priesthood, anthropological research, and political act. At 46 years old, the photographer – also an Ogan of Xangô at the Terreiro Ilê Axé Icimimó in...

Between Madrid and Vigo, Spanish photographer Francisco Fresneda builds a body of work that transforms the camera into an instrument of intimate exploration and personal therapy. At 37 years old, he balances his life as an artistic photographer with his...

Between Buenos Aires and Ushuaia, the Argentine-Armenian photographer Araz builds a body of work deeply marked by the theme of forced displacement and the invisibility of minority social groups. At 55 years old, with a trajectory divided between the two...

An art educator and photographer from Ceará, Sabrina Moura weaves a trajectory where the image operates as a tool for pedagogical transgression and the decolonization of the gaze. At 41 years old, a proud native of Fortaleza – "the cream...

Between Naples and Bologna, Italian photographer Melissa Ianniello builds a deeply autobiographical body of work that transforms the camera into an instrument of emotional resonance and intergenerational dialogue. At 34 years old, she develops a photographic practice centered on intimacy,...

Restoring the symbiotic and ethical coexistence between humans and animals is an urgent imperative amid nature’s degradation fueled by industrial agriculture, which accelerates climate change and biodiversity loss. The photo essay Sanctuaria by Spanish photographer Ana Palacios—a finalist in the...

Photographer Rodolfo Paz, from Porto Alegre, has built a unique trajectory that turned a travel hobby into a full-time profession. Specializing in wildlife, he works with brands, authorial projects, photographic expeditions, and fine art, finding in photography not just a...

A multifaceted visual artist from Brazil's far north, Dinho Rocha is an Amapá native at heart who masters various fronts of audiovisual production, from cinematography to design. His photography, however, is where his most personal vision expresses itself, nurtured by...

At 28 years old, Brazilian photographer Bruna Braz builds a photographic trajectory that unites socio-environmental activism, cultural documentation, and the decolonization of imaginaries. Working as a Socio-Environmental Analyst at the Instituto Sociedade População e Natureza (ISPN - Society, Population, and...

Mexican photographer and videomaker from Guadalajara, Adriana Muñoz discovered her passion for imagery at 15 when her father gifted her first camera. Today, with an established career, she divides her time between coordinating a team for commercial work and dedicating...

At 66 years old, Porteño photographer Javier Goded builds a photographic trajectory that unites artistic expression and documentation as a form of memory construction. A native and resident of Buenos Aires, he began his training in the 1980s through photo...

At 78 years old, Maria Eugenia Nabuco builds a photographic trajectory that intertwines poetic sensitivity with political urgency. A psychoanalyst and photographer, she divides her time between Rio de Janeiro and Paris, developing a body of work where the human...

Photographer and musician Bruno Corisco builds an unorthodox visual practice that moves between mockery, Jungian psyche, and the exploration of landscapes transformed by fire. Based in Nova Friburgo, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, he develops a unique...

A documentary photographer in constant movement, nilo2anjos dedicates himself to building a visual memory of the people, gestures, and landscapes of deep Brazil. Since October 2022, he has been living a long-term project along the banks of the São Francisco...

Photographer Júlia Braga, from Minas Gerais, creates a body of work deeply rooted in affective memory and the traditions of the Minas Gerais interior. Originally from João Pinheiro and based in Belo Horizonte since 2012, where she works as a...