Miguel Rio Branco

Groundbreaking photojournalism from a pioneering Brazilian photographer

This anthological volume retraces the entire career of French Brazilian photographer and filmmaker Miguel Rio Branco (born 1946), who is known for his photojournalism in Brazil and has worked as a correspondent for Magnum Photos since 1980.

"The work of Miguel Rio Branco is shaped by his need for the magic of the image, which is the result of a moment of grace and naturalness in the human condition. Through his images, he seeks a solution that offers a continuity between life and photography. Indeed, in his photographs, the passions of life are not subjected to any purifying cleansing, but offer the observer the outward fabric of life captured from its dark side, where all the conflicts of a human and non-human reality end up. Every form surges into this reality and is reduced to debris, but also to primitive and pure energy." — Germano Celant

Photographs by Miguel Rio Branco. Silvana Editoriale, Italy, 2023. 96 pages, 60 illustrations, 9x11"