| Biografia |
BIOGRAPHY
Rodrigo Petrella, was born in 1972, in São Paulo, Brazil.
In 1997 he graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the University of São Paulo (USP).
He won his first camera at 13 years. "As long as I can remember, Ive always admired the history of photography and its pioneering artists. Maybe thats part of the reason I am so inexplicably charmed and facinated by the B & W photo."
Petrella has been a professional photographer since 1994 when he started photographing in Rio de Janeiro. He later moved to New York City, where he has worked in the fashion industry, including work for W Magazine, Vogue, Dutch, ID and with famous models such as Gisele Bundchen, as well as other personalities in the artisic business world. He continues to do work for international magazines and journals.
He returned to Brazil in 2001. Since then he has focused on two main subjects: a personal project exploring the symbols and images of our unconscious, and a photographic record of the daily life of indigenous communities in the Amazon.
From 2003 until this date Petrella has been devoted to photographing indigenous communities in partnership with COIAB (Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon). Using his Rolleiflex, in 6X6 format, his work features various indigenous groups in the states of Amazonas (Parintintin, Tenharin, Pirahã and Mura), Rondônia (Gavião, Cinta Larga and Suruí), Acre (Ashaninka, Kaxinawá, Kulina Mandijá and Shanenawa), Mato Grosso (Nambikwara do Campo, Mamaindê, Enawene-nawê, Pareci, Erikbaktsa and Kuikuro) and Pará (kayapó).
EXHIBITIONS
2008: "Guardiões da Floresta", - Word Bank Brazil - Brasília, Brazil
2008: Itnerarium - The Saint James Way - An artistic view of Santiago de Compostela, Exhibition with Spanish and Brazilian photographers, Castile and León, Spain; the Governor of Castile and León attending opening ceremonies
2008: "Guardians of the Forest", solo exhibition at the Smithsonians Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), New Yourk City, USA, Prints now part of the Museums permanent collection
2007: "Entre dois mares" (Between Two Seas) Bienal de Valencia - Valencia, Spain; the Governor of Valencia and Queen of Jordan attending opening ceremonies
2007: "Céu" (Sky) - Museum Arthur Bispo do Rosário/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, prints, now part of the Museums permantent collection
2007: "O que é normal?" (What is Normal?) Distrito Federal, Brazil
2006: Traveling exhibition celebrating 25 years of the magazine ID, showed around the world at major fashion events
2006: "Viva cultura viva do povo brasileito" - Museu Afro-Brasileiro/ São Paulo, Brazil - in commemoration of the 2nd anniversary of the Museums permanent collection
2002: Exhibition featuring the work of major international artists / Action for raising funds for the International Red Cross in Africa - Los Angeles, USA.
fonte : Site do artista em nov/2011
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