Lalo de Almeida | |
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Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
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]