Bicho Pau - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

Rodrigo Albert is a visual artist, works with photography, video, sculpture and installation. His investigations focus on political and social issues, the relationship between art and violence, life and death. Since 2002 he develops projects on Apacs prisons in Brazil. In 2005 he participated in the VII International Exhibition of Digital Art in Cuba and won Top Mention in the LUST contest of COLORS Magazine in Italy. In 2006 he won the Pierre Verger National Photography Award, one of the most important awards in Brazilian photography, in the same year he was nominated for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass from the World Press Photo Foundation in the Netherlands. In 2007 he participated in the project Laberinto de Miradas, by curator Claudi Carreras. In 2009 he moved to Paris and in the same year he exhibited his Insertion project in the city of Rennes, France. In 2010 with the series: Intimate Prisons, he won the SFR / Polka Prize, "The truth for the image" chosen by the prestigious French photographer Marc Riboud of the Magnum Photos agency. In the same year, he was a Special Mention at the SFR Young Talent Photography Grand Prix, chosen by Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz. The Prize earns you to show Intimate Prisons at the Arles Photography Festival, the most important photography festival in the world. In 2011, he was invited to participate in the book: "A book of beds" from the prestigious FOAM magazine in Amsterdam, Netherlands. From 2011 to 2018 he moved to Mexico. In 2013, invited by curator Ingrid Suckaer, she shows: “Cárcel y Libertad en Brasil”, at the International Cervantino Festival and in 2016 she shows “Terra Prometida” at the Veracruzano de Cultura Institute. From 2012 to 2017 produces the Antropozoico series held in the Gulf of Mexico sea, in Veracruz. In 2018 shows Antropozoico at the Griffin Museum of Photography, MA, USA. In 2019, she exhibits “Promised land” at the Palácio das Artes in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.