February 17, 2026 - Brazilian / Photographer / Social - Street

Miguel Rio Branco

Miguel Rio Branco was born in 1946 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, to Brazilian diplomatic parents. His childhood was itinerant: he grew up in Portugal, Brazil, Switzerland, and the United States, an experience of constant displacement that gave him an outsider’s perspective on every place he inhabited. He studied at […]

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February 16, 2026 - Brazilian / Landscape - Cityscape / Photographer

Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was born on 8 February 1944 in Aimorés, a small town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, surrounded by the lush Atlantic Forest that would, decades later, become central to his life’s mission. The son of a cattle rancher, he grew up on a farm in the Rio Doce valley, one […]

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RESOURCES

This is where I keep the research — over 200 studies of the photographers, writers, curators and exhibitions I’ve found most compelling. Each entry offers a summary of their practice together with a few examples of their work, where copyright permits.

FOCUS


Browse by genre (use the hamburger menu above on mobile) — Street, Fashion, Landscape, Documentary and others. Most of these categories took shape during my MFA studies and many of the people here appear in multiple categories.

NATIONALITIES

View landmark exhibitions like New Topographics and The Family of Man alongside individual studies of Magnum photographers and many others, like the "Terrible Three", who have shaped the way we see.