Rui Caria
Praia da Vitória, Portugal
Rui Caria is a Portuguese photojournalist from Nazaré. He collaborates with various media outlets and communication agencies in Portugal and abroad. His photographic work is recognized by editors of the most diverse publications and his images have been published in several international photography books. Rui Caria is a master in Communication and Media, and he is a speaker at events dedicated to visual communication, photography, and photojournalism. He has articles on photography and imagery published in the national and international press. With a body of photographic work exhibited throughout the country, Rui Caria has been a finalist and winner of several photography competitions, including the Sony World Photography Awards.
His photojournalistic and documentary work includes the war in Ukraine in 2022, where he went for 40 days as a special correspondent for SIC Notícias, and his coverage in 2017 of a FRONTEX mission in the central Mediterranean Sea, where he spent 34 days photographing the routes of illegal migrants and refugees. Both works were later highlighted. The first, in the book Ukraine: A War Crime, and the second was awarded photojournalistic series of the year 2018 by Monovisions Photography Awards Magazine.
Rui Caria's work focuses on social causes, human rights, and the environment. He is particularly interested in documenting the lives of ordinary people and the challenges they face. His work is a contribution to the field of photojournalism, reporting on some of society's most critical issues.
2019 - Sony World Photography Awards, National Awards, 2018 - Monovisions Photography Awards 2018, 2016 - FEP - Federation of European Photographers, 2014 - PDN Photo District News
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interview
- Landscape
- Military embed
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Sports
- Video capture
- Video editing
