Mauro Pimentel
Agence France-Presse
Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Agence France-Presse (AFP) photojournalist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Assignments abroad in Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador, Argentina, South Africa, United States, Panama and Cuba. Worked as a staff photographer (2012-2014) to the Latin American news website Terra Networks. Between 2014 and mid-2017, freelancer photojournalist of Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, ESPN, El País, Folha de São Paulo, Estadão, Vozerio, Deutsche Welle, Transparency International, Veja, Uol and El Mundo.
2015 - Honorable Mention, 2013 - Winner
- Audio capture
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Corporate
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Interview
- Medical
- Military embed
- Reporting
- Sports
- Video capture
- Video editing
Asimbonanga
Mauro Pimentel
"We Haven't Seen Him" anymore but his legacy is in the heart of every south african who believes in life commitment. They are the Mandela generation. I visited the country to record the material in 2009 and 2013, during the last farewell of the country of its greatest leader, Nelson Mandela, who passed away on December 5, 2013.
Brazil Transgender Prisoners
Mauro Pimentel
In this July 8, 2015 photo, inmate Bruno da Silva, right, holds hands with his partner, transgender inmate Danny Campos de Oliveira, inside the Evaristo de Moraes Prison, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Oliveira, a 27-year-old serving an 18-month sentence for a larceny conviction, said the new rules protecting transgender inmates have already improved prison life. Before transgender prisoners were “bald and ugly, with beards because they couldn’t use hormones,” said Oliveira. Now, they “come out of here with more dignity, a bit less marginalized.” (AP Photo/Mauro Pimentel)