Lalo de Almeda

Lalo de Almeida (born 1970) is a Brazilian documentary photographer based in São Paulo. He has been co-winner of the W. Eugene Smith Grant and has twice won first prize awards in the World Press Photo Contest.

Life and work Almeida studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy. Since the late 1990s, he has worked in Brazil for the daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo and since 2005 for The New York Times. Since 2020, he has been represented by Panos Pictures.

Publications Nas Asas do Correio Aéreo: a rota do Tocantins = Flying with the airmail service. São Paulo: Metalivros, 2002. . Edited by Isio Bacaleinick and with text by Tânia Carvalho. Brazilian Portuguese-language edition.

Short video documentaries

2021: 1st Prize, Environment category, World Press Photo Contest, Amsterdam, Netherlands for "Pantanal Ablaze" 2022: Overall winner, Long-Term Projects category, World Press Photo Contest, Amsterdam, Netherlands for Amazonian Dystopia