BRAIS LORENZO
OURENSE, 1986
Trained in Photography and Geography and History. He is interested in social and environmental issues. He believes in the transformative power of the image.
Since 2010 he combines photojournalism with long term documentary work. He is a regular contributor to Bloomberg, Anadolu and EFE Agency. He has taken photographs for other media such as El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, ABC, Público, Eldiario.es, Luzes Magazine, RTVE, XL Semanal, The Guardian and other agencies such as AFP or AP, in addition to various institutional and commercial works.
He has collaborated with organizations such as Greenpeace and WWF.
He is co-founder of the photographic collective OLLO.
EXHIBITIONS
Some of his works have been included in various photographic exhibitions, such as Art & Photo Exhibition (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), for the NGO Sara Canizzaro Child Minders Association; Absolute Reality, at the Geraldes dá Silva Gallery (Porto, Portugal); Rande: pé ou refuxio do Capitán Nemo, at the La Nacional cultural center in Manhattan (New York, USA); Building a New World, at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts (Turin, Italy); Visual Anthropology of a Confined Society, in the Ethnological Museum, (Ribadavia, Spain); Galicia en Vilo, at the Afundación Headquarters (A Coruña, Spain); At the Scenes of the Pandemic, at the National Museum of Contemporary History (Seoul, South Korea); A Vía da Prata. Aires do sur, in the Gaiás Museum (Santiago de Compostela, España) or Lume. Imaxes dunha terra que arde (Itinerant, Galicia).
AWARDS
- 2023:
- Istambul Photo Awards – Winner Nature and Environment Category
- Hamburg Porfolio Review
- Gabo Award – Finalist Photography Category
- La Buena Prensa Award – Winner Series Category
- La Buena Prensa Award – Best Photography – Finalist
- 2022:
- Luis Ksado Award – Winner
- Estaçao Imagem – Winner Environment Category
- Estaçao Imagem – Honorable Mention – Daily Life Category
- Sony World Photography Awards Landscape Category – Shorlist
- Environmental Photographer of the Year (EPOTY) – Finalist
- News Photo Awards – Finalist
- Zampa Award – Finalist
- News Photo Awards – Finalista
- Asisafoto Award – Honorable Mention
- Luis Ksado Award – Winner
- 2021:
- POYi Daily Life singles – Winner
- Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award – Winner Best Photography
- News Photo Awards – Grand Prize
- Siena International Photo Awards – Winner Covid-19 Category
- Estaçao Imagem – Winner Picture of the Year
- Galicia en Foco Award – Winner
- Carlos Casares – Kristina Berg Award
- Albarracin Photography and Journalism Seminar Scolarship
- Sony World Photography Awards Portfolio Category – 2nd prize
- POY Latam. Daily Life singles – 2nd prize
- POYi Local Photographer of the year – Finalist
- POYi Local News Picture Story – Award of excelence
- NPPA – Best of Photojournalism 2020 – Contemporary Issues – Third place
- Xose Aurelio Carracedo Journalism Award – Winner
- ANI-Pix Trakk Award of Visa Pour L’Image Festival – Finalist
- The Circle of Life Award – Finalist
- Luis Ksado Award – Finalist
- Zampa Award – Finalist
- Asisafoto Award – Honorable Mention
- Selected to participate in Descubrimientos PHE 2021
- 2020: Finalist of the II Joana Biarnés Grant for Young Photojournalists
- 2017: Special mention in the Galicia en Foco award
- 2013: Winner of the SINIF firepress photography award at the National Symposium on Forest Fires
- 2012: Winner of the SINIF firepress photography award at the National Symposium on Forest Fires