Miguel Rio Branco

Miguel Rio Branco (born 1946) is a Brazilian photographer, painter, and filmmaker (director and cinematographer). His work has focused on Brazil and included photojournalism, and social and political criticism.

Rio Branco was an Associate Member of Magnum Photos. His photographs are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Life and work Rio Branco was born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands. His parents were diplomats and he spent his childhood in Portugal, Switzerland, Brazil and the United States.

Publications by Rio Branco Dulce Sudor Amargo. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1985. . Nakta. Brazil: Multiprint Grafica, 1996. Silent Book. São Paulo: Cosac & Naify. 1997. . Second edition, 2012. Miguel Rio Branco: An Aperture Monograph. New York: Aperture, 1998. . Pele do Tempo. Brazil: Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, 1999. Entre Los Ojos. Barcelona: Fundación "la Caixa", 1999. . Text in Spanish and English. Miguel Río Branco habla con Teresa Siza. Conversaciones con Fotografos. La Fábrica, 2002. . In Spanish. Entre os Olhos, o Deserto. Brazil: Cosac & Naify, 2002. . Gritos Surdos. Portugal: Centro Portugues de Fotografia, 2002. Plaisir la Douleur. France: Textuel, 2005. . Out Of Nowhere. Luste, 2009. . Você está feliz? Cosac & Naify, 2012. . Mechanics of Women. La Fábrica, 2017. . New York Sketches. Xavier Barral, 2018. .

Short films by Rio Branco Trio Elétrico Caveirinhas Nada Levarei Quando Morrer = those who owe me will be charged in hell – 20 minute documentary with still and moving images Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 25 works (as of May 2019)