About Victor Moriyama
Victor Moriyama is a Brazilian photojournalist based in São Paulo covering South America and the Amazon rainforest for The New York Times. His works are based on a humanist photograph committed to documenting the processes of violence that prevail in social and environmental relations in Brazil. Agrarian conflicts, deforestation and conservation of tropical forests and their biodiversity, genocide of indigenous populations, acceleration of climate change are themes that have guided his photographic production in recent years. Concerned about the scarcity of in-depth reports on conflicts in the Amazon, Victor created in 2019 the project @historiasamazonicas, a community of Latin American photographers committed to documenting contemporary processes taking place in the Amazon and defining the present. His idea is to expand world knowledge and engage global society with problems within the largest tropical forest in the world.
Moriyama is a regular contributor to National Geographic, Time, Bloomberg among other medias. He photographs campaigns for international environmental NGOs linked to Amazon conservation.
Awards:
- Finalist of The Pulitzer Prizes on International Reporting: New York Times Team, 2022
- POY Latam award, General News, 2023
- Nominee : Prix Photo Terre Solidaire , France, 2022
- George Polk Award : Investigative reporting - Collective prize - New York Times Team, 2022
- Finalist : Premio Gabo, Latin America - 2022
- One of the 31 nominees for the Solidarity Land Award - France 2023
- Rotterdam Photo Festival - 2022
- World Press Photo - Book Award - Red Flag Book 2021
- NPPA 2020 1st place: Online Video Production Features - Large Team category
- Nominee for the World Press Photo Joop Masterclass 2020
- POYi 2020 1st Place - Category: Online Storytelling, News Reporting
- POYi 2020 Award of Excellence - Category: Online Storytelling, News Reporting
- LUMIX Festival 2020: Amazon Deforestation essay
- Scripps Howard Award: Multimedia Journalism: Vox Team : ”These 3 Supertrees Can Protect Us From Climate Collapse"
- POY Latam 2019: Second place in the category “young people express themselves”
- POY Latam 2019: Second place in the “short videos” category
Exhibitions:
- Opening and permanent exhibition at Open Society Foundation Colombia - 2022
- The Covid Photo Museum - Rotterdam Photo Festival - 2022
- MUFF Festival - CDF Uruguay - Collective exhibition - 2022
- Mostra SP de Fotografia - Collective exhibition - Brazil - 2022
- Culturescapes - Solo Exhibition - Switzerland - 2021
- Krakow Photomonth Festival - Poland - 2021
- Acampa Por La Paz y el Derecho a Refugio - La Coruña, Spain - 2021
- CDF Montevideo : En vilo. Una narración colectiva sobre el coronavirus en Latinoamérica". Collective exhibition - Covid Latam - Uruguay 2021
- Photoville - NYC, US - 2020
- Visa Pour L'Image - Perpignan, France - 2020
- Bronx Documentary Center - Covid Latam - NY - 2020
Collections:
- Testemunha Ocular - Instituto Moreira Sales - permanent
Books:
- Red Flag - Fotoevidence Press -/ World Press Photo - 2021
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