Ricardo Azoury

More than landscapes, Brazilian reality has been the focus of Rio de Janeiro-born photographer Ricardo Azoury for the better part of the last three decades. Since the late 1970’s, he has traversed Latin America’s largest and most complex nation, from the sprawling pampas in the south to the high rainforests of the Amazon basin, documenting the diversity of Brazilian wildlife, people and their culture.”Traveling around Brazil and South America has given me a richer sense of the problems, challenges, and the promise of this continent-sized country.” For the last five years Azoury has mastered scuba diving and made underwater photography his specialty.