BIO

Antonio Mari is a multilingual Brazilian journalist and photographer with a Masters Degree in Photography from New York University and a B.A. in Journalism from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. He is based in New York City and specializes in ethnographic subject matters such as peoples and cultures outside the mainstream of Western civilization. Mr. Mari attended undergraduate school in Journalism from 1980 to 1984 while on a full scholarship granted by the CNPq - National Council of Research of the Brazilian Government to develop a documentary project on the vanishing folklore festivals in the state of Minas Gerais and the architecture of its colonial towns. In 1984, upon graduation, he was awarded a national scholarship to attend graduate school in Photography at Ohio University in Athens and to work on his ethnographic photography project on the Amish Community of Sugarcreek in Holmes County, Ohio. In 1986 Mr. Mari transferred to New York University where he participated in two collective shows. One at the Washington Square East Gallery the other at the New Exhibition Space-NYU and was also awarded honorable mention in the national competition “Best of College Photo Contest” promoted by the Photographers Forum Magazine. In 1988, upon his graduation, he was chosen on a national pool to participate in the editorial training program at Capital Cities/ABC Corporation working until the Fall of 1990 as a photojournalist in three different daily newspapers throughout the United States. In one such newspaper, the Belleville News Democrat, he was awarded the Illinois Press Association’s prize for Best Picture Story in 1989. In 1990 he quit the newspaper business to work on editorial and commercial projects as an independent photographer. Since 1995 Mr. Mari has been working on a photographic documentation project about the Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. His work with that vanishing stone age tribe has generated three thematic exhibitions. The first gallery showing in 1998 called “Yanomami: The Last Days of Eden” was in Strasbourg, France and received glowing reviews from the local press. Two others followed in the United States; the first in the spring of 2000 called “Yanomami: Amazon Stone Age Survivors” at Taranto Gallery in Chelsea, New York City and the other in the fall of 2001 at the Hillwood Art Museum in Brookville, NY, called “Yanomami: Children of Eden”. Mr. Mari’s work is widely published throughout the world. A seven image photo essay has been printed in Newsweek as well as multiple photo spreads in Time Magazine, Science Magazine and the Boston Globe. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, The New York Post, Newsday, Gannett Newspapers, Asahi Shimbun (Japan), Veja Magazine (Brazil) and Geo Magazine (Germany). Among his commercial clients are The Ford Foundation, United Way, American Red Cross, American Cancer Society, Greenpeace, Bloomberg L.P., among others. Mr. Mari has been based in New York City since 1992 and is available for editorial and commercial assignments throughout the world.