September 11, 2024
Debate on Polar Children's and Youth Literature
The second edition of the Brazilian Polar Film Festival took place in São Paulo, an event aimed at reaching and expanding the audience of young people and adults interested in contributing to the mitigation of global environmental impacts through the presentation of films and documentaries, as well as photographic projections.
Roundtables featuring people who think about and love life in the coldest places...
July 14, 2024
Photographs at FASA - Festival of Arts and Water Knowledge
From July to September 2024, FASA - Festival of Arts and Water Knowledge celebrated the cultural, social value, and customs surrounding this vital element in six municipalities of São Paulo, representing the state's diverse hydrographic regions, including Ilhabela.
In the magnificent Teatro de Vermelhos, set amidst the Atlantic Forest, FASA presented...
March 26, 2024
VILLA BELLA at MIS - Museu da Imagem e do Som/São Paulo
The exhibition VILLA BELLA - Iconographic memory of a beautiful island (Ilhabela 1900–1980) arrives at one of the most important cultural spaces in São Paulo: MIS – Museum of Image and Sound.
The project was awarded in the Programa de Ação Cultural – ProAC – of Secretaria da Cultura, Economia e Indústria Criativas of the Government of the State of São Paulo. After its debut in the city of São Paulo,...
March 16, 2024
TV Cultura series: Guardians of the Sea
The sea is the cradle of the first living beings that inhabited our planet. Millions of years later, it continues to be the habitat of countless species and is essential for life to exist on Earth. But the sea...
March 8, 2024
Tiradentes Photo Festival - Foto em Pauta
The unpublished series "It can only be a joke" is selected for the collective projection "Dialogues of the Earth" at the 13th Tiradentes Photo Festival.
March 15, 2023
Brazilian photography at the Bibliothèque nationale de France - BnF
Article on the launch of a fund for Brazilian photography (Jornal da Band, 03/15/2023).
October 2, 2022
Maré Sonora (Sound Tide): interview on Marina Guedes' Podcast, inspiring chats on life experiences connected to the oceans
In 2 episodes, a casual chat about sailing, diving, expeditions, and life lessons aboard the polar sailboat Kotic.
Episode #128: Photographer and designer, Maristela Colucci, has a strong connection with the sea. In the first part of this series, she recalls the scare she experienced during a dive in Brazil. From her home in Ilhabela, Maristela also talks about...
January 28, 2022
The substance of images – Brazilian women photographers, Yara Schreiber Dines, org.
Review published on Juan Esteves' blog.
December 2, 2021
Exhibition Villa Bella - Iconographic memory of a beautiful island (Ilhabela 1900-1980)
A crossing in time
For the past 10 years, I’ve dreamed of gathering old photographs of Ilhabela that I knew were preserved as treasures with no known maps. Recently I’ve been groping about until the paths lead me to some of the guardians of these gems; people aged 60, 80 and even 96 who have generously opened their homes, their albums, their boxes, their lives.
Wrapped in their memories,
People aged 60, 80 and even 96 who have generously opened their homes, their albums, their boxes, their lives.
Wrapped in their memories...
November 21, 2021
Pint of Science
Art and science have always walked hand in hand.
For the first time, Brazil hosts Creative Reactions, a festival promoted by Pint of Science worldwide, featuring artworks created in collaboration with scientists. The works address themes such as atoms and galaxies...
September 10, 2021
Citronela Doc
Debating about affections, memory, photography, love, art.
Citronela Doc is a documentary festival that takes place annually in Ilhabela, on the North Coast of São Paulo.
August 19, 2021
Juçara Magazine
From above, from the sides and beneath my privileges, I immersed myself without reservations in the world of Carolina Maria de Jesus. I suffered, I was shocked, I smiled, I sympathized, I was indignant, I respected, I cried, I was deeply touched and, above all, I learned from each page of Quarto de despejo.
My creative process was truly abyssal...
April 13, 2021
Photothings Dialogues
A chat with Alexandre Sequeira about photography, about the things of nature, and, above all, about the nature of things!
March 8, 2021
Mulheres Luz - photographers and women of the image
Mulheres Luz was born to make the material produced by female photographers and women who work in this field in Brazil more accessible and so have their work better seen and disseminated. Bringing together essays and portfolios of various themes, periods of time, and territories, as well as researches and cultural publications.
The platform proposes...
December 19, 2020
Bibliothèque nationale de France | Brazilian Photographs in the collection of BnF, in Paris
Over 100 works by Brazilian photographers will become part of one of the world's most important collections: the archive at the BnF in Paris (Jornal da Band, 12/19/20).
November 9, 2020
Tiradentes Photo Festival - Foto em Pauta
DRIVE-IN LIFE essay selected.
Launch of the four-video series showcasing the results of the open call for the project "Inside a Suspended Time." Musical performance by Marcos Souza, playing live in front of the photos.
In this launch, we are joined by...
September 25, 2020
#ICPConcerned
Part of the trilogy WANDERLUST selected for this collective exhibition at ICP – International Center of Photography, New York.
Global Images for Global Crisis: with contributions from over sixty countries, this evolving exhibition draws from the tens of thousands of images being posted with the hashtag launched by ICP in March, inviting...
July 31, 2020
I live inside myself
Photofilm created during pandemic times, featuring photos requested from friends while in quarantine at home, and music composed, performed, and sung by Cristina Vilarinho.
July 7, 2019
Polaris - 80 days sailing through Antarctica and South Georgia
Exhibition at Sesc Pompéia - São Paulo celebrates its 20th anniversary.
The expedition yielded various products: bulletins on Radio Eldorado, a juvenile book by Cia das Letrinhas (Antarctica, a world made of ice), and a beautiful Sesc catalog.
November 6, 2018
The Journey, episode 2: Born to preserve
The Journey and photographer Maristela Colucci visited two projects for nature preservation in southern Brazil. The Franca Austral Project was created to ensure the survival of the species that nearly became extinct in the 1980s. Today, those who visit Santa Catarina in winter can witness a spectacle of southern right whales, which come to the coast during their reproductive season.
From there, we went to learn about an initiative...
March 25, 2018
Group Exhibitions at Tato Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
In November, participating in the collective exhibition "From 100 to 1,000" with 4 Metacrilato pieces from the photo essay "Floating".
In March of the same year, featured in the "Re.gis.tro" exhibition with the artwork "São Paulo, a chaotic view of the city or a view of the chaotic city".
April 10, 2017
Revista Brasileira / Brazilian Academy of Letters
Phase I of the Brazilian Journal began in 1857, but one could say there was a Phase Zero, initiated in 1855. Many years later, Phase VIII commenced in the first quarter of 2012 under the direction of Marco Lucchesi.
A complete collection of the Revista Brasileira is housed at...
November 11, 2016
Photo Invasion, Red Bull Station
The Floating photo essay selected for projection at the artistic occupation Red Bull Station in downtown São Paulo.
August 6, 2016
Photothings Meetings
A chat with curator and art critic Paulo Klein about the appropriation and manipulation of images.
December 10, 2015
Buscador (Searcher) (e-book)
In the analog era, editing a contact was an intimate and often lonely act. We photographers were, after the laboratory technicians, the first to see that material, with great expectation. At that moment ended what Joan Fontcuberta defines as "the wait for uncertainty – the time between the shooting and the developed photos – which covered both hopes and fears."
Are there also hopes and fears in the photographer when...
June 22, 2015
11º Festivalma
Photographs that report and denounce waste, pollution, and mistreatment of the beach and nature, while promoting sustainability and ecology, are exhibited at the Pavilion of Brazilian Cultures, a museum...
May 15, 2015
Mira Mobile Prize
Photo selected in the MIRA Mobile Prize 2015 - STREETS OF THE WORLD. Collective exhibition from May 11 to June 13 at Espaço MIRA, Porto, Portugal.
April 12, 2015
Photo essay "It's raining red people (and I feel good)" featured in a tour of international collective exhibitions
Exhibitions Hybrid Memories - BAC Gallery - Contemporary Art Bogota, Colombia / Contemporary Venice - Palazzo Flangini, Venezia, Italy/ Bangkok International Experimental Video ARt Festival - The Ferry Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
March 18, 2015
5th Foto em pauta - Tiradentes Photography festival
Part of the photo essay (work in progress) I Remember - Latent Dialogues, Essential Affections selected by curators Juan Esteves, Alexandre Belém and Georgia Quintas for the collective exhibition THE PORTRAIT.
December 10, 2014
Best photos of 2014, by Mobgraphia.com
Mobgraphia selected the top 5 photos captured with a mobile phone in 2014.
November 9, 2013
Urbanization in traditional communities? No, thanks
Environmental struggle gaining space in the media.
November 12, 2012
Antarctica, 15 years later
A new expedition to Antarctica, always aboard the polar sailboat Kotic, 15 years after the first one.
Daily updates on...
October 22, 2009
Encounters with Photography / fnac Brazil collection
A publication (book and CD) celebrating fnac's 10 years of presence in Brazil, with galleries in its stores dedicated to the rich production of Brazilian photography. The two books and CD showcase one image and an interview with each of the 40 photographers.
In the preface, curator Rosely Nakagawa...
January 25, 2004
Ephemerides III
São Paulo 450 years: several photographers were called upon by organizer Letícia Sá Motta/Tangram to create or search their archives for images of the city on its 450th anniversary, for a collective exhibition in the Subway. Each piece was displayed accompanied by the text of a curator, a writer, or a thinker. The work I created...
March 14, 2000
Ephemerides II
Brasil 500 years, 2.000. Book "BRAZIL - April 22nd 1.500–1.999: 100 photographers portray the country's daily life in 24 hours"
Org: Paula Simas
Book launch and photographic exhibition at MIS - Museum of Image and Sound - São Paulo, Brazil.
January 1, 2000
Ephemerides I
Brasil 500 years, 2.000.
Colucci Propaganda calendar.
All Brazilian states....
June 21, 1998
International Year of the Ocean - 1998
When the UN declared 1998 the International Year of the Oceans, the expectation was to draw attention to crucial issues, especially the limits of marine resources and pollution caused by human activities. The idea was to secure commitments from various countries to take measures that would preserve the oceans for future generations.
Throughout the year, Maristela Colucci had her underwater photos exhibited at the Brazil Pavilion during Expo'98 in Lisbon, Portugal; selected to illustrate...





































