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Born in Las Palmas (Canary Islands) (Spain), lives in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
Photographer and filmmaker Miguel Rio Branco has been a Magnum correspondent for more than thirty years. His visual style is fiercely personal: dramatic color contrasts and chiaroscuro highlighting the unsettling, carnal rawness of the (street) life he has chosen to portray.
Rio Branco’s photographic sequence of two young boys engaged in a capoeira routine, titled Blue Tango, has been chosen as the campaign image for the exhibition A RUA – street life at its most energetic and energizing form.
>Miguel Rio Branco, Nada levarei quando morrer, aqueles me devem cobrarei no Inferno.Video, dvd, 00:20:00.
> Exhibition: A RUA/DE STRAAT – Europalia.Brasil. 07 October 2011 - 22 January 2012.