Rafael Duarte

Award-winning documentary director, journalist and photographer, Rafael Duarte holds a Masters in "Cinema and Audio Visual" by the Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He directed the documentaries "RIO by unique sights" (2021), "Beyond Dreams" (2019), "The Sea Mountain" (2018), "SOS UERJ" (2018), "Sons of Sound" (2018), "Transcarioca Trail" (2017) and "Whiteout" (2015). He directed and produced a series of short docs for Piauí Magazine under the supervision of prestigious directors João Moreira Salles and Renato Terra and also the first O Globo's web series. He is the founder of the expedition team "Miramundos" and collaborator of international media outlets such as National Geographic Magazine, Mongabay, O Globo, Vice, Extremos and Go Outside Magazine. As a photographer, he is the author of four books and had his work exhibited in galleries in Brazil, France, Spain and England - where he was selected by the Sony World Photo Awards to take part in World Photo London 2012 at Somerset House. In 2009 he was elected one of the best photographers of the Way of Saint James in Spain.