Rafael Roncato (1989) is a Brazilian documentary photographer, editor, curator and visual artist currently living and working in The Hague (NL).
Current projects
Selected artist for FOTODOK’s talent program Lighthouse 22/23
Shortlisted for Fiebre Dummy Award 2022
Curator of the exhibition R!ot by Design by Zimbabwean designer Sindiso Nyoni for the Afrovibes Festival in partnership with ZAM Magazine
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rafael.roncato@gmail.com
+31 06 5126 1505
@rafael.roncato
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I’m a Brazilian documentary photographer, editor and visual artist, currently living in The Hague (NL). I combine photography and storytelling with non-linear methods to address the connection between images, power structures and belief systems across society. And for this purpose, I constantly play the roles of storyteller, trickster, and connector.
My appreciation for the inherent quality of the photographic medium lies in the way it provides a dialogue between the mundane, the unknown, and the imaginary. By exploring semi-fictional and ambiguous narratives, I seek to find new stories that put the current media landscape into perspective.
You can find on my backpack a passion for underground comics, Brazilian modernism, and a curious eye for creative processes, identity, and media. Empathy and humor are my compass in advocating for visual and media literacy as a toolkit to sustain a global community that works for all of us.
As an editor I seek collaboration as an essential element of my work, thus investing in the transformative role of gathering and interdependency as fundamental factors to foster critical debates towards contemporary issues. My intentions are to challenge narratives and push the boundaries of what can be seen in a hyperconnected society.
My current practice focuses on how images in social platforms have been used to share and naturalize non-progressive values through digital media. My aim is to lift the curtain on the theatre of the absurd by revealing who are the ones keeping us down.
//Education
2020—2022 / MA Photography and Society — KABK
2022 / Masterclass with Jonathas de Andrade — FOAM
2017 / 1st Training Program in Image Journalism – Folha de S.Paulo
2015-2016 / Post-Graduation in Photography — FAAP
2011-2012 / Photography — Panamericana School of Art
2011-2012 / Cinema and TV — Anhembi Morumbi University
2007-2010 / BA Multimedia Journalism — FACAMP
//Work
2022— // Freelance teacher at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague 2012— // Freelance journalist, editor and photographer
2015-2017 // Director of photography / Fluxo de Consciência show
2013-2016 // Editor and editorial producer / São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
//Awards
2022 / Tropical Trauma Misery Tour / Selected / FOTODOK’s talent program Lighthouse 22/23
2019 / Adágio / AI-AP / Latin American Fotografía 8 / Chosen Artist
2018 / Sunyata / Verzasca Foto Festival / "Nera Di Verzasca Award" / Finalist
2018 / Barbat / AI-AP / Latin American Fotografía 7 / Selected Artist
2017 / Sunyata / Artist Book Winner / Amis du Salon d'Automne de Paris / 5º Salão de Outono da América Latina
2017 / Sunyata / Premio Latinoamericano de Fotolibros / Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos / MEX / Selected Artist
2017 / Sunyata / AI-AP / Latin American Fotografía 6 / Selected Artist
2017 / UYMO / Photobook Dummies / Valongo Festival / Selected Artist
2016 / Sunyata / Artward 9 / Selected Artist
2016 / Life Framer / Colours / Editor's Picks
2016 / Adágio / AI-AP / Latin American Fotografía V / Chosen Artist
//Exhibitions
_Solo
2021 / Visual Currency / Wireless / Netherlands Fotomuseum / Rotterdam / NL
2018 / Adágio / Casavitorino / São Paulo
2016 / Adágio / UGRA / São Paulo
2016 / Adágio / Galeria Hipotética / Porto Alegre
2015 / Barathrum / Monkix
2015 / .nankeen. / Monkix
_Collective
2022 /Tropical Trauma Misery Tour / Royal Academy of Art / Bibliotheek / Selected Thesis Exhibition / The Hague / NL
2022 / Tropical Trauma Misery Tour / Royal Academy of Art / Graduation Show / The Hague / NL
2021 / Wireless Anatomy of Man / Noorderlicht Photo Festival / Open Student Call / The Makeable Mind / Groningen / NL
2019 / Adágio / 16º Salão Nacional de Fotografia Pérsio Galembeck / Araras / SP
2019 / Adágio / WALL / FOTOHAUS / OFF Festival / Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie / Arles / França
2019 / Sunyata / What Lies Beneath / 500px / Toronto / Canadá
2018 / Barathrum / Noite Solar/ Projeção / Solar Foto Festival / Fortaleza
2018 / Barbat / Convocatória de Fotolivros / Solar Foto Festival / Fortaleza
2018 / Barbat / Convocatória de Fotolivros do Festival ZUM / IMS / SP
2018 / #poesiafica #foratemer / Projeção / Monat der Fotografie-OFF Berlin / Berlim
2018 / Sunyata / 8º Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes / MG
2017 / SINAPSES / SAO Ateliê / SP
2017 / Sunyata / Convocatória de Fotolivros do Festival ZUM / IMS / SP
2017 / Adágio / Queer City / Schwules Museum* / Berlim / Alemanha
2017 / Sunyata / Festival de Fotografia de Juiz de Fora / MG
2017 / Sunyata / Valongo Festival / Santos
2017 / Sunyata / 8th Lisbon's Photobook Fair / Portugal
2017 / #poesiafica #foratemer / Projeção / Fotohaus / Arles / França
2017 / Adágio / II Mostra Diversa / Museu da Diversidade Sexual / SP
2017 / Sunyata / 5º Salão de Outono da América Latina / Galeria Marta Traba / Memorial da América Latina / SP
2017 / Sunyata / 7º Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes / MG
2017 / Sunyata / Ocupação Trapiche #1 / São Luís / MA
2017 / Barathrum / Projecto Multiplo #12 / Lugar a Dudas / Cali / Colômbia
2017 / Da tela do celular: 20 visões do outro / Quintal Cultural / Porto Alegre
2017 / Da tela do celular: 20 visões do outro / Centro de Cultura Ordovás / Caxias do Sul
2016 / Foto_Invasão / Projeção / Red Bull Station / SP
2016 / Da tela do celular: 20 visões do outro / Galeria Hipotética / Porto Alegre
2016 / Carta das Laranjeiras / Salvador
2016 / Estou Cá / Potlatch / Sesc Belenzinho / SP
2016 / Adágio / Ritos e Rituais / 6º Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes / MG
2015 / Adágio / DOC / 6ª Mostra SP de Fotografia
2015 / Barathrum / O Estendal / Sesc Rio de Janeiro
2015 / Barathrum / Ugra Zine Fest / CCSP
2014 / Barathrum / Sextas Matadoras / SP
2014 / Barathrum / Paraty em Foco / RJ
2013 / Re(li)quiem / Escola Panamericana / SP
//Collections
Adágio / Schwules Museum / Berlin
Adágio / Museu da Diversidade Sexual / São Paulo
The Wireless Anatomy of Man / KABK / The Hague
//Collectives
2021– / Cartography Digest
2018– / Havaiana Papers / Brazilian Photobooks
2016–2020 / Lombada / Photobooks lab
2013–2015 / Ateliê Fotô / Eder Chiodetto
//Workshops
2023 // KABK / Collaboration Week / Mood board Mythologies / The Hague / Netherlands
2023 // KABK / Cartography Digest / AppropriNation / The Hague / Netherlands
2022 // KABK / Cartography Digest / Speed editing workshop / The Hague / Netherlands
2021 // KABK / Workshop Week / Photography Beyond the Visible with Eddo Hartmann and Piek Kock / The Hague / Netherlands
2019 // LOMBADA Zine Battle / São Paulo / Brazil
2019 // LOMBADA Collective Zine Publication / São Paulo / Brazil
2019 // Visual narratives / LSA+ students from Dartmouth College (USA) / São Paulo / Brazil
2018- // LOMBADA / photobook lab and workshops / São Paulo
2018 // Photojournalism / Dr. Jorge Coury Public School / Brazil
2018 // Photobooks - with Gabriela di Bella - Viva Rua Photography, Art and Culture School / São Paulo / Brazil
2017 // Presenting: Rafael Roncato / Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes / Minas Gerais / Brazil
2016 // Portraits / Hipotética Gallery / Porto Alegre / Brazil
//Publications
2019 / Perspectiva da perseguição
2018 / Barbat
[Biblioteca IMS/São Paulo]
2016 / Sunyata
[Biblioteca MAM São Paulo, Biblioteca IMS, Biblioteca Blank Paper/Madri, Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection/Pratt Institute/NY]
2015 / Barathrum
[Biblioteca MAM São Paulo, Biblioteca Mário de Andrade/SP, Projecto Multiplo, Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection/Pratt Institute/NY, MoMA Library/NY]
2022 / Der Grief / Artist Feature
2022 / Der Grief / Artist Blog
2021 / Almost Welcome / Wireless / KABK/MAPS
2019 / Observatório 26 / Itaú Cultural
2018 / ELLO.co / New Photographer
2018 / Barbat / AI-AP / Latin American Fotografía VII / Chosen Artist
2018 / Sunyata / OLD
2017 / Sunyata / AI-AP / Latin American Fotografía VI / Chosen Artist
2017 / Baiacu / Laerte e Angeli / SESC Ipiranga / São Paulo
2017 / Adágio / Laerte-se / Netflix Originals / Directors Lygia Barbosa da Silva e Eliane Brum
2017 / Sunyata / Ignant
2017 / Sunyata / Don't Touch My Moleskine
2017 / Sunyata / Clavoardiendo Magazine
2017 / Barathrum / PBMag
2016 / Fotografe Melhor / n. 243 / Os traços de um jovem retratista
2015 / Adágio / DOC / 6ª Mostra SP de Fotografia
2015 / Adágio / Guerrilla / Chile
2015 / Adágio / Fotografia Diária
2015 / Barathrum / Fotografia Diária
2015 / Adágio / Cat Magazine
2014 / Ocupação Laerte / Itaú Cultural
2014 / Sophia magazine / Argentina
2014 / Adágio / Rolling Stone
2013 / Sasha Grey / Papo de homem
2013 / Re(li)quiem / OLD
2013 / .nankeen. / Ideafixa
2013 / .nankeen. / Divirta-se / Estadão
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