Javier Alvarez
New York, NY, USA
Javier Álvarez is a Chilean documentary photographer focused on bookmaking and social issues. After pursuing a BFA in Photography in Santiago de Chile, Javier worked as a freelance editorial and press photographer for agencies in between Brazil and Chile. Currently, he is based in Brooklyn, NY, and works as an independent photographer for media outlets, commercial clients, and is a contributor to the Brazilian journalistic platform MidiaNinja.
2017 - National Press Photo (Chile), 2016 - 1º Portfolio Prize, 2016 - Nominated for Rodrigo Rojas de Negri grant, 2015 - National Press Photo (Chile), 2015 - Joop Swart Masterclass, 2015 - Joop Swart Masterclass
- Breaking news
- Editorial
- Events
- Interview
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Video capture
- Video editing
Itaquera, 2014
Javier Alvarez
São Paulo, Brasil. 2014. Portrait of a young man early in the morning.
The ‘People’s Cup’ camp, where thousands of families where affected by the real state speculation and became homeless after the construction of the ‘Arena Itaquera‘, lived on improvised tents just a few blocks away from the soccer stadium that hosted the #fifaworldcup2014
#brasil #saopaulo #itaquera #ocupacao #tbt #mtst
