Rodrigo Zaim

Rodrigo Zaim

Rodrigo Zaim, a photographer since he was 17 years old, started to be interested in photography at a young age, seeing skateboarding and surfing magazines that his cousins ​​threw away, and he would cut out the photos that caught his attention the most.

He finished high school in 2009 and went straight to take a photography course at SENAC Santana and works in the area to this day. Working as a photojournalist, he founded in 2013 the R.U.A Foto Coletivo and closely recorded the June Journeys Against the Tariff Increase in SP. His work documents the movements that the city of São Paulo and Brazil are going through. In 2014, he created the QVA (Quanto Vale a Arte) project that took the art of photography to various outskirts of SP. In 2015, he taught a Photography Workshop for young people at the FLM Cambridge Occupation, which gave rise to an exhibition throughout the Occupation’s floors. In 2016, he covered the RIO2016 Olympics in several Rio de Janeiro communities. In 2018/2019, he taught a Photography Workshop for homeless people at the NGO Cisart.

Zaim is co-founder of Instituto Afro Amparo&Saúde, coordinated the communication team from 2019 to 2021. He is currently part of the photography team of IstoÉ Magazine and is one of the curators of F.I.P (Peripheral Images Festival) and founder of Ẹlẹ́gbára Lamb’s.