TRAINING & EXPERIENCE

Mauricio Maranhão, Brazilian photographer and journalist from the city of São Paulo. I studied photography at ABRA - Academia Brasileira de Artes and then communication at the Istituto Superior de Comunicazine Integrata - Rome / Italy, where I graduated as a journalist in 1995. I worked for several newspapers in Brazil, as a Photojournalist for newspapers; Diário de São Paulo, Folha de São Paulo, Folha de Alphavile and in Germany, as a correspondent for the news agency "Agência Estado" for 8 years. The varieties of my works are constant. It is worth mentioning that I covered two World Cups and some armed conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. I lived for more than twenty consecutive years in Europe where I had the opportunity to work for several media outlets and I also did a lot of institutional work for companies in Italy, Spain, Germany, England, ​in 2011 for family reasons, I returned to São Paulo and I stayed until 2019, when I returned to Germany, where I have lived since then. Today I work as a correspondent for the Brazilian agency Folhapress, for the local press and also as a mentor and photo editor for the Latin American agency APP – Alliance photo press. I am polyglot, I speak 5 languages; Portuguese, Italian, English, Spanish and German. I have dual nationality which facilitates my transit in European territory and in the United States of America. I invite you to get to know some of my work, not only photojournalism, but also other photographic works that I develop in the Institutional area, product photos, among others.