About

Paula Pedrosa, 1978, is an artist-biologist, based in São Paulo, Brazil, who uses photography as a creative basis.
Influenced by her educational background in natural sciences, she develops projects that investigate the concepts of contemporary nature, interweaving science and imagination, the micro and the macro, the factual and the marvelous.
Since 2015 she’s been showing her work national and internationally, participating in study groups, artistic residencies, organizing diffusion activities, and consulting for environmental visual projects.
In 2019 she published her first book, Diorama, and in 2022 she won the FCW Photography Award.

Awards

2022 – Fundação Conrado Wessel Photography Award – Brazil

2020 – Nova Fotografia – Museu da Imagem e Som, São Paulo (SP) – Brazil

Education

1998 – Graduation degree in Biology – São Carlos Federal University.
2002 – Master degree in Tropical Forest Ecology – Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia / Amazonas Federal University.
2007 – Graduation degree in Visual Communication/ Graphic Design – SENAC / ESPM-Miami Ad School.

Awards

2022 – Fundação Conrado Wessel Photography Prize winner – Brazil
2020 – Nova Fotografia – Museu da Imagem e Som (MIS) – São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Collections

Art Museum of the Americas – Washington/DC, USA.
Museu da Imagem e Som – São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Shortlisted

2023 – Magnum Foundation Photography Expanded Fellowship

Solo Exhibitions

2021 – Nunca Enganaremos – Museu da Imagem e Som – São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

2017 – Diorama – Fábrica São Luis, Festival Interfoto Itu, Itu, Brazil.
2016 – Diorama – Coletivo Artístico Nacasa, Florianópolis, Brazil.

Group Exhibitions

2023 – Outros Outros – CâmeraSete Casa da Fotografia de Minas Gerais – Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
2023 – Outros Outros – Festival Foto em Pauta – Tiradentes, MG, Brazil.
2022 – Nova Fotografia 10 Anos – Paço das Artes – São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2022 – Exposição Campus Antropoceno Brasil – Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
2022 – Somos casi por completo polvo de estrellas – Panoramic Festival – Barcelona, Spain.
2022 – Somos casi por completo polvo de estrellas – Recontres d’Arles – Arles, France.
2022 – Constelações Latinas: encontros em fotolivros – Solar Festival – Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
2022 – Constelações Latinas: encontros em fotolivros – Festival Imaginária – São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2022 – Todo es possible, todo es libro – Festival Fotografia Impresa – Cordoba, Argentina.
2022 – The Urban Between Reality and Utopia – projection at Rotterdam Photo – Rotterdam, Nederlands.
2021 – Embodied Forest – online exhibition – ecoartspace – Santa Fe, USA.
2021 – Há só uma terra – Diafragma International Photo Festival – Covilhã, Portugal.
2020 – The Climate Emergency in 50 Rounds – Fotobokfestival Oslo – Oslo, Norway.
Aruba.2020 – Museum: a Haunted Medium – Aruba Photo Room, Oranjestad, Aruba.
2019 – Photobook Show – Festival ZUM, IMS Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.
2019 – Museum: a Haunted Medium – Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC, EUA.
2019 – Fragmentos do Onírico – Festival Foto em Pauta, Tiradentes, Brazil.
2018 – The Family of No Man – Cosmos Arles Books, Arles, França.
2018 – Salão Nacional de Artes de Itajaí, 14o SNAI, Itajaí, Brazil.
2017 – Em Construção – Valongo Festival Internacional da Imagem, Santos, Brazil.
2017 – Mostra de Portfólios – Festival Foto em Pauta, Tiradentes, Brazil.
2016 – Do horizonte vê-se o mar – DOC Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil.
2015 – 6a Mostra SP de Fotografia – São Paulo, Brazil.

Artistic Residency

2022 – Mirante Xique-xique – Chapada Diamantina, Igatu, BA, Brazil.

Book

2019 – Diorama – Olhavê publishing house.

Group Publications

2016 – OLD #53 online magazine – Brazil.
2021 – Embodied Forest – ecoartspace – Santa Fe, USA.

Talks

2023 – Beyond the paper: stories about nature in photobooks – Festival Imaginária – São Paulo, Brazil.
2023 – Photography and the boundaries between reality and fiction: building a speech about nature – post-graduate class at FFLCH, University of São Paulo – São Paulo, Brazil.
2022 – Speaker at Artists Speak for Trees – ecoartspace – Santa Fe, USA.
2020 – Panelist at The Climate Emergency in 50 Rounds seminar, in conversation with Taco Hidde Bakker – Fotobokfestival Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Workshop

2022 – Mentor of Nature and culture: relations between history, art, and science – Escola de Botânica – São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Consultancy

2022 – Photography editor and concept advisor for H is for Hemp, a book by the photographer and documentarist Maren Krings.

Diffusion

Ecótono – social media platform about dialogues, research, and artistc practices between nature and culture