Andreas Valentin

Andreas Valentin is a professor of Photography and Art History at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and at Universidade Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro. He has a PhD in Social History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and last year conducted post-doctoral research at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, on Brazilian and Germany photography in the 1950 with a fellowship granted by the Brazilian Ministry of Education. Between 1980 and 2000 he photographed, researched, directed and produced documentaries in the Amazon. He has written three books on the Amazon Parintins Boi-bumbá Festival and worked as producer an assistant director in Werner Herzog’s film Fitzcarraldo. As an artist, in the 1970’s he collaborated with Brazilian avant-garde artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980), directing experimental Super8 films. Recently, he won the Marc Ferrez photography prize, the most renowned award of its kind in Brazil, with a project involving Rio de Janeiro and Berlin