Lalo de Almeida brazilian, b. 1970

Lalo de Almeida is one of the most important photojournalists working in Brazil, with a trajectory of over 27 years at Folha de São Paulo, one of the main daily newspapers in the country, for 12 years he was a contributor from Brazil and South America to The New York Times. His photographic journalism reports won some of the most important international awards and the present photographic series “Pantanal Ablaze”, that in Brazil is called “Ashes from paradise”, was the winner of World Press Photo 2021 Photo Contest in the category Environment. In the same year, Lalo de Almeida also became the second Brazilian photographer in history to receive the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant with the series “Amazonian Dystopia”. In 1982, the winner was photographer Sebastião Salgado.