Alessandro Falco (b. 1986) is a documentary photographer based in the Brazilian Amazon. His work focuses on the social and environmental conflicts shaping the Amazon and its communities, with particular attention to land, climate and cultural change.
In 2025 and 2026, he contributed to The New York Times with a series of international assignments, resulting in four front-page stories addressing energy inequality in the Amazon, pesticide-related suicides in Suriname, and Brazil’s fight against dengue.
His photographs from the region have also been published by leading international outlets including National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel and Folha de S.Paulo, among others.
He lives in Belém do Pará, at the mouth of the Amazon River.
Recognitions
2026 real21- International Journalism Grant Recipient 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, HM 2023 Leica Oskar Barnack, nominee
2021 Lugano Photo Award, Environment, winner 2021 Prix Pictet Prize, nominee
2021 Foundation Prince Albert, Environment award
2020 Harvard University, DRCLAS, HM
2016 World Press Photo's Joop Swart Masterclass, nominee 2015 World Press Photo's Joop Swart Masterclass, nominee 2015 XXVIII Eddie Adams Workshop, selected
2015 Marco Pesaresi Prize, finalist
2014 Jessica Lum Photojournalism Award, winner
2013 Top Under 30 Emerging Photographer, ZOOM magazine
2013 Jessica Lum Photojournalism Award, winner
2012 International Fine Art Photography Award
2012 Sony World Photography Award, Shortlist
2012 Renaissance Photography Prize, Winner 2012 Cascella Contemporary Art prize, winner
Collections Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Fondazione Zimei
Press inquiries: falcoalessandro@gmail.com Photo: Karina Brito
Selected exhibition
2026 Arte Pará Visual Arts Salon, Pará State Museum, Belém 2026 Amazonia:Confidencial, solo, Galeria G.Landeira, Belem, 2025 Amazonia:Confidencial, solo, Galeria Kamara Kó, Belém 2024 “Amazonias: el Futuro Ancestral”, CCCB Barcelona 2024 Greatest Wildlife Photos of the World, Zierikzee, NL 2023 Wildlife Phot. of the year, Natural History Museum, London 2023 Prince Albert II environment prize, Fond. GoodPlanet, Paris 2022 The future of food, Seinäjoki Kunsthalle, Finland
2022 Humanity&Wildlife, J.F.Kennedy Art Center , Washington 2021 Humanity&Wildlife, Jardins de Boulingrins, Monaco
2017 Youmanity, Kings College, London 2016 United Nations 1st World Humanitarian Summit, Istanbul 2016 Youth in Migration, Museum of Humanity, NL
2015 Industrial Art Biennale Labin, Croatia. 2014 Riot de Janeiro, M.A.R., Rio de Janeiro 2014 A different child, solo, Aurum Contemporary Art Museum, IT 2013 A different child, YPA, UPI Gallery, NY 2013 A different child, YPA, Margaret St Gallery, London 2013 Lushui Photography Museum, China 2013 Hydrofiles, solo, Fondazione Zimei, Italy 2012 Renaissance Prize winner, Mall Galleries, London. 2012 Sony World Photography Award, Somerset House, London