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...
Read moreDetailsThe Great Guardians
This photographic essay emerged from my desire to document and honor ancient cultures rapidly transforming...
Read moreDetailsCarry Your Burden
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 moreDetailsPresságio – Fauna and Flora Are Sacred
Presságio (Omen) is a sign, a vision of the future, a premonition, a portent. Born where...
Read moreDetailsI Thought the Sea Always Smelled the Same
For him, then just a student, the Fukushima nuclear accident was something that happened beyond...
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Postcard
This series employs Rio de Janeiro’s classic symbols—Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf Mountain, Copacabana’s shoreline—to challenge 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 moreDetailsSymbiosis
This essay is a self-portrait capturing an emotionally difficult period of my life. Clay of...
Read moreDetailsAfter the Rain
After the Rain is an essay capturing the deep scars left—not just on urban landscapes but...
Read moreDetailsCity in Ashes
From the felling of surviving urban trees to the burning of trunks, this film confronts...
Read moreDetailsWhen Flowers Bloom
In this series I bring color back into my black and white photographs through hand...
Read moreDetailsDepth Soundings
My self-portraits mirror how I feel the world I see and experience. I dive into my...
Read moreDetailsStudies on Delirium
In her creative process, Lais Mazzucco constructs delirious inventions, drawing from psychoanalysis to frame delirium as...
Read moreDetailsLa Petite Mort
I have lived many lives, existing among scars, joys, and sorrows. I transit between: the...
Read moreDetailsDevotion
Whether you believe in God or not, we cannot ignore that millions on this planet...
Read moreDetailsJourney Along the Rio Negro
The Rio Negro rises in Colombia and flows into Brazil, where it converges with the...
Read moreDetailsKalunga Empire
Every year during one week in August, Vão das Almas—in rural Cavalcante, northern Goiás—transforms into a...
Read moreDetailsIdentity
This photographic project probes the relationship between appearance and identity, capturing individuals who transform personal style...
Read moreDetailsNhanderekó: The Essence of Indigenous Resistance
Since 2022, I have documented the ATL – Articulation of Indigenous Peoples, an annual event in...
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Organic Rice Farmer
Rice farmer Juarez Felipe Pereira harvests with a sickle at his Barra do Ribeiro farm...
Read moreDetailsCotidiano em pausa
Três crianças compartilham um momento de distração em um ambiente simples, onde o tempo parece...
Read moreDetailsFreedom
This image shows a Rajasthani woman in a typical blue painted Haveli, trying to protect...
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Gravity Suspended
As feet leave concrete, time bends. The skateboarder hovers—defying urban rigidity with street-born alchemy. Years...
Read moreDetailsKuikuro
Ipatse village, Upper Xingu, MT (2024). Xingu Indigenous Territory. Childhood: free, present, fierce.
Read moreDetailsAffection and Resistance on the Esplanade
Indigenous women walk hand in hand toward Brazil's National Congress during the 2025 ATL March....
Read moreDetailsPandemic – The Walk Home
A balloon seller trudges home after a day on empty beaches. Covid-19, 2020.
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No Limits
"Strength is moving forward when it hurts." On the cruelest incline, muscles screaming, he climbed....
Read moreDetailsLittle Lord Hanuman
This is joyful moment of a child who was enjoying in Ganga river.
Read moreDetailsAncestral Future
Congada dancers converge at the Popular Festival of Saint Benedict, Aparecida SP .
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Pose!
Voguing tribute at Brazil's First Transmasculine March, March 2024. Born in 1960s Harlem, popularized in...
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