Felipe Russo

Adjunct Faculty

Felipe Russo is a photographer from São Paulo, Brazil. Felipe has a degree in Biology with a major in Landscape Ecology, disciplines that still inform his creative process. For the past eight years, Russo has produced works using photography and video around São Paulo’s downtown district with an interest on the overlap of history, social use and memory found in the cities current physical structure.

Education
MFA in Photography, Hartford Art School , USA. (2013). BSc in Biology, Universidade Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil (2005)

Exhibitoins
Garagem Automática ( Casa da Imagem – Museu da Cidade de São Paulo ), Time Space Existence ( Palazzo Mora, Venice Architectural Biennale ), Photo-Paged, Publications Brésiliennes Contemporaines ( Centre de La Photographie Geneve), New Acquisitions 2008-2013 (Maison Européenne de La Photographie), Espacios Ajenos, Lugares Propios ( Museu de Arquitectura y Diseño de Buenos Aires), Latinoamérica es un pueblo al sur de Estados Unidos (Casa de America, PhotoEspaña, Madrid).

Teaching Experience
Teacher at Escola Panamericana de Arte e Design, São Paulo, Brasil. Workshops at Madalena Centro de Estudos da Imagem, (São Paulo, Brasil) and La Fototeca Guatemala ( Guatemala City, Guatemala). Thesis critics for Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (São Paulo, Brasil ) and Madalena Centro de Estudos da Imagem (São Paulo, Brasil).

Publications
CLAP! 10×10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks: 2000-2016, 10X10 Photobooks, 2017; Centro – Publicação do autor, 2014; Long Lonely Swins – aG-halide press, 2012; Recreio da Borda do Campo – Editora MB, 2010.