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Avener P.

São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil

$400 - $1250 / Day

About

Avener Prado was born in Porto Velho, state of Rondônia, in northern Brazil, in 1991. He began his career as a photo-documentary artist in the Brazilian Amazon at the age of 18. He joined the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo as a photojournalist in 2012. Highlights for some of his work in Brazil: Urban violence in cities; The epidemic of the Zika virus in Pernambuco; The mining disasters in Minas Gerais; The destruction of the Amazon rainforest; The indigenous movement and its cultural diversity. He traveled across countries to tell stories like: Ebola in Sierra Leone; Immigration in the Mediterranean Sea from Italy; Walls that divide US-Mexico borders or neighborhoods, in the mountains of Lima in Peru. In 2019, already as a freelancer, he published reports in the newspapers Le Monde and The Guardian, and other works for Brazilian media. Her work has received awards, including the ICRC's International Humanitarian Coverage Award, the King of Spain for Digital Journalism and POY Latam - The Future of Cities.

Top Services

Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
Reporter / Journalist
Documentary DP

Clients

Top Projects

Equipment

Video

  • 2K video camera
  • 4K video camera
  • Full HD video camera
  • DSLR or equivalent
  • Drone

Audio

  • Wireless lavalier mic
  • Shotgun mic

All Services

Production Support

  • News Shooter / Video Journalist
  • Documentary DP
  • Drone Operator
  • Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
  • Reporter / Journalist
  • Production Assistant

Miscellaneous

  • Fixer