Selected entries for the FotoDoc Photo Contest 2025 were published on a rolling basis through the submission deadline. Winners will be exhibited at the FotoDoc Festival 2025, taking place in November at Panamericana School of Art and Design in São Paulo, SP.
Finalists Announced – Click here to discover !
PORTFOLIOS
intimate metamorphosis
Through a window, in the crack of a door, within a mirror, I immerse myself...
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This series presents an array of people engaging in laborious activities or resting after toiling...
Read moreDetailsWhen the Earth Sings – Memories of Ritual and Healing
In the Umbanda Omoloko Ilé Ifé Oxum Apará terreiro, every leaf harvested, every chant intoned, every body...
Read moreDetailsI Thought the Sea Always Smelled the Same
For him, then just a student, the Fukushima nuclear accident was something that happened beyond...
Read moreDetailsPresságio – Fauna and Flora Are Sacred
Presságio (Omen) is a sign, a vision of the future, a premonition, a portent. Born where...
Read moreDetailsThe Great Guardians
This photographic essay emerged from my desire to document and honor ancient cultures rapidly transforming...
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Kalunga Empire
Every year during one week in August, Vão das Almas—in rural Cavalcante, northern Goiás—transforms into a...
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This photographic project probes the relationship between appearance and identity, capturing individuals who transform personal style...
Read moreDetailsLa Petite Mort
I have lived many lives, existing among scars, joys, and sorrows. I transit between: the...
Read moreDetailsStudies on Delirium
In her creative process, Lais Mazzucco constructs delirious inventions, drawing from psychoanalysis to frame delirium as...
Read moreDetailsSymbiosis
This essay is a self-portrait capturing an emotionally difficult period of my life. Clay of...
Read moreDetailsDevotion
Whether you believe in God or not, we cannot ignore that millions on this planet...
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This series employs Rio de Janeiro’s classic symbols—Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf Mountain, Copacabana’s shoreline—to challenge the...
Read moreDetailsAfter the Rain
After the Rain is an essay capturing the deep scars left—not just on urban landscapes but...
Read moreDetailsNhanderekó: The Essence of Indigenous Resistance
Since 2022, I have documented the ATL – Articulation of Indigenous Peoples, an annual event in...
Read moreDetailsWhen Flowers Bloom
In this series I bring color back into my black and white photographs through hand...
Read moreDetailsJourney Along the Rio Negro
The Rio Negro rises in Colombia and flows into Brazil, where it converges with the...
Read moreDetailsAmong Reflections: The Secrets We Conceal
Floods are not merely meteorological phenomena—they are structural fissures. This essay emerges from the recurrent inundations...
Read moreDetailsCity in Ashes
From the felling of surviving urban trees to the burning of trunks, this film confronts...
Read moreDetailsDepth Soundings
My self-portraits mirror how I feel the world I see and experience. I dive into my...
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Little Lord Hanuman
This is joyful moment of a child who was enjoying in Ganga river.
Read moreDetailsPose!
Voguing tribute at Brazil's First Transmasculine March, March 2024. Born in 1960s Harlem, popularized in...
Read moreDetailsAffection and Resistance on the Esplanade
Indigenous women walk hand in hand toward Brazil's National Congress during the 2025 ATL March....
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Ancestral Future
Congada dancers converge at the Popular Festival of Saint Benedict, Aparecida SP .
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Kuikuro
Ipatse village, Upper Xingu, MT (2024). Xingu Indigenous Territory. Childhood: free, present, fierce.
Read moreDetailsCotidiano em pausa
Três crianças compartilham um momento de distração em um ambiente simples, onde o tempo parece...
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Pandemic – The Walk Home
A balloon seller trudges home after a day on empty beaches. Covid-19, 2020.
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Gravity Suspended
As feet leave concrete, time bends. The skateboarder hovers—defying urban rigidity with street-born alchemy. Years...
Read moreDetailsNo Limits
"Strength is moving forward when it hurts." On the cruelest incline, muscles screaming, he climbed....
Read moreDetailsOrganic Rice Farmer
Rice farmer Juarez Felipe Pereira harvests with a sickle at his Barra do Ribeiro farm...
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Freedom
This image shows a Rajasthani woman in a typical blue painted Haveli, trying to protect...
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