About
I'm Alysson Camargo, a researcher and anthropologist who focuses on Latin American Photography through a socio-anthropological approach.
I suspect every photo is a kind of map that captures a specific historical, political, and cultural instant, and I aim to scrutinize it in contemporary contexts.
I was always an observer of the world, which formed the root of my passion for seeing photographs. Images are translations of a particular perception of the world through aesthetic language.
Curriculum vitae
Education & certifications
2021 - 2023
Goias Federal University
Master in social anthropology
2020 - 2021
Catholic University of Brasilia
Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts
2014 - 2018
University of Brasilia
Bachelor's degree in History of Art
Research lines
Visual Anthropology
Anthropology of Art
Image Anthropology
Latin American Photography
Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century:
The Camera Never Lies
University of London (2022)
Philosophy of Photography,
Humanis Platform (2022).
Seeing Through Photographs,
MoMa (2021).
Visual Anthropology and Photography,
Humanis Platform (2021).
Visual Ethnography,
UFBA (2021).
History of Brazilian Photography,
Fotô Editorial, (2020).
Marajó Experience,
Luiz Braga Workshops (2018).
Research groups
LEX is the Laboratory of Ethnographic Experimentations and Social Markers of Differences, coordinated by Glauco Ferreira and Carlos Henning, UFG (2022).
LA’GRIMA is a laboratory whose main objective is to promote studies on images in the anthropological field, coordinated by Suely Kofes and Fabiana Bruno, Unicamp, (2022).
GEMINTER is the Museology and Interdisciplinary Study and Research Group, coordinated by Manuelina Duarte, UFG (2021).
ROPA is a Decolonial and Feminist Memory Policies research group coordinated by Camila Wichers, UFG (2021).
Volunteering
Deliberative council member
(2020 - Present)
Promundo is a Brazilian non-governmental organization, with no institutional links with foreign organizations, which operates in different regions of Brazil and other countries in the world, seeking to promote gender equality and the prevention of violence, focusing on the involvement of men and women in the transformation of masculinities.