ARTIST / DIRECTOR / CINEMATOGRAPHER / PHOTOGRAPHER
COLLECTIONS:
MUSEUM OF IMAGE AND SOUND - São Paulo-Sp, Brazil / MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - MAM Salvador-Ba, Brazil / MUSEUM DON LUIS I - Cascais, Portugal / MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART / Sorocaba-Brazil / AFRO BRAZIL MUSEUM - Ibirapuera, São Paulo-SP CARMEN & LUIS BASSAT FOUDATION Barcelona, ES
MAIN AWARDS:
P H O T O G R A P H I C S E R I E S
BARROQUE BRAIDS
”… In the braids of each of them, the story of a deep sea, of a journey yet to be resolved...”
Diógenes Moura
Former curator at Museum Pinacoteca de São Paulo.
Writer, Editor.
BLACK LIGHT
“ The shadow captured by Robério is not a space of concealment, but of revelation.”
Fábio Magalhães (1942, São Paulo-SP, Brazil)
Curator, Museologist, Art History Professor, Former Secretary of Culture, and Former Director of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (1979-82). Former Director of MASP - Museo de Arte de São Paulo (1989-95) Former Director-President of Fundação Memorial da América Latina de São Paulo (1995-2002). Chief Conservator of MASP (1990).
CARNET PHOTOS
“ Regarding Robério, to me, he belongs to the lineage that Verger inaugurated or pioneered among us. What he does is aesthetic and visual anthropology. Brazenly aesthetic, sensibly anthropological.”
Antônio Risério (Salvador-Bahia,Brazil 1953)
Brazilian anthropologist, poet, essayist, and historian.
WINDS OF AFRICA
These images are powerful visual parables that illuminate and confront the follies of humanity, while also honoring the beauty and resilience of Afro-descendants who, united, make Bahia one of the most diverse and vibrant places in the world.
Éder Chiodetto
Photography Curator at MAM ( Modern Art Museum of São Paulo, Brazil)
3 X 4
"Robério's work traverses this world and, with remarkable aesthetic sensitivity, transports us to a timeless realm where we depart from current circumstances into a timeless world, to the perception of rituals and attire that have survived the destructive force of this globalized world."
Mário Cohen
Gallerist, represent brazilian photographers like Sebastião Salgado, Mário Cravo Neto and Robério Braga.
IRISH LACE
” Congratulations on the work and the contribution you make to the promotion and valorization of this cultural asset! "
Livia Lima
Coordinator of the “Mário de Andrade Prize” for Ethnographic Photographs - Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Division, National Center for Folklore and Popular Culture (CNFCP)
*Edition 2022
INVISIBLES
"Its all about People we do not want to see…”
ROBÉRIO BRAGA
Director + Cinematography Robério Braga
JESUITIC MISSIONS OF THE NEW WORLD *unpublished project
" A research about one of the greateast human utopia of the history "
Robério Braga
Photographer, Researcher.