Photo Gallery of Studio inaugurates locker room Joy with 27 Tiago Coelho photography

Opening Day 25 th November of 2016, at 19h

Visitors until 4 February 2017

(The gallery will remain special time of day 17 from December to 4 January 2017 -visit the website)

Free entry

The Studio Gallery is closed the year of 2016 inaugurating the day 25 November, at 7:00 pm exposure Locker Room Joy with 27 photos of the gaucho artist Tiago Coelho. All photos printed on Bond paper 180 g and printed in the roll paper. The frames are in wood of eucalyptus (the same used to make paper). Visitors until the day 4 February. The Studio Gallery is on Avenida Pasteur, 453, Urca (21 2547 4953).

The exhibition Locker Room Joy part of the project developed to World Press Photo Masterclass in collaboration with the Fundación Pedro Meyer, that happened in Mexico City in December 2015.

The small town of Guaíba, in the South of Brazil, is the shores of the Lake of the same name and features 100.000 inhabitants. A sui generis aspect draws attention of the place: a large pulp mill. It's the only pulp mill in the world situated within a city. In almost all the points of this place, We can visualize the iron giant and concrete, with its imposing chimneys. Many argue that the factory, that quadrupled their territorial extension in recent 3 years, contributes in the local economy, but some residents are fighting for better conditions on quality of life in the region, claiming to reduce environmental and social impacts, in particular to the reduction of pollution of air and water, as well as noise pollution hitting heavily some residents neighbors.

The Artist

Tiago Coelho (Santo Antônio da Patrulha, Brasil, 1985) graduated in Cinema (Porto Alegre, Brasil) and has a master in documentary photography at EFTI (Madrid, Spain). Currently a professor of photography at UNISINOS University, works as a freelance photographer and creative director at Galeria Muscat (Porto Alegre) Artist Residency at Verzasca FOTO Festival. Sonogno, Switzerland, 2016.

2place the Conrado Wessel Foundation Award for Art 2015. São Paulo, 2016.

2place in the FINI (Festival Internacional de la Imagen). Hidalgo, Mexico, 2016.

Selected for the WINTER sets – Caminos Festival of photography. Montevideo, Uruguay, 2016. Selected for the first World Press Photo Masterclass Lationoamérica in collaboration with the Fundación Pedro Meyer. Mexico, 2015.

Participated in various festivals, individual and collective exhibitions in Brazil and several countries in the world as for example Photoquai Biennale photo 05, in Paris, France. 2015. Third place prize Paraty em Foco 2015 -multimedia. Festival Paraty em Foco, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. 2015. In 2016, participated in the "La Noche Latinoamericana de Proyecciones", sponsored by the Paradocs collective and “Fotoperiodismo Por La Paz Juan Antonio Serrano” in Quito, Ecuador, in April and "Per conoscere la pietra, frequentala "in Verzasca Photo Festival. Sonogno, Switzerland, 2016.

Works in public and private collections as: Pirelli collection / Photo MASP, Joaquim Paiva collection, MACRS, IEAVI, Collection Gallery Muscat and EFTI.