Evandro Teixeira was born in the small Bay town of Irajuba in 1935, beginning his journalistic career in 1958, in O Diio de Notacias, in the capital Salvador, and then moved to La Ciudad de Diios Associados, by Assis Chateaubriand, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where he lived and lives today.
In 1963 he joined Jornal do Brasil, where he became a mythical figure in national photojournalism, working at JB for 47 years, leaving the newspaper only in 2010, when the publication interrupted the printed broadcast to focus solely on online publishing.
- Known for being extremely versatile.
- He excels in several areas of news coverage.
- From political issues to sports photography.
- Highlighting in his career the coverage of General Castello Branco’s arrival at Copacabana Fort during the 1964 military coup.
- The suppression of the student movement in Rio de Janeiro in 1968 and the fall of Salvador Allende’s government in Chile.
- 1973.
It has also covered important events, as well as coverage of several Olympic Games and World Cups. He is the author of numerous books on journalism and photojournalism. Evandro’s photographs are part of museum collections such as Fine Arts in Zurich, Switzerland, at the La Tertulha Museum of Modern Art in Colombia; Masp, in Sao Paulo, MAM and MAR, in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1994, his curriculum was integrated into the Swiss Encyclopedia of Photography, which brings together the world’s leading photographers. In 2004, his life and work were described in the documentary “Snapshots of Reality”. Among the prizes received are UNESCO, Nikon and the Inter-American Press Society. Below, we’ve separated some of his most famous photographs that have circulated around the world.
The main years
The civic-military coup d’coup of 1964 saw in Brazil a journalism of diversity and quality, expressed in different media, composing a journalistic landscape at a time of extreme changes in social settings. of the dictatorship, impoverishing the Brazilian journalistic landscape.
Specifically in photojournalism, there were several names that deserve to be known for their genius when documenting an era in which individual freedoms were achieved, one of these names, of course, is that of the photojournalist Evandro Teixeira, owner of the photos most emblematic of the time. :
The two photos reproduced above mark the face of the dictatorship in Brazil and visually shape the memory of the “lead years”. On the one hand, the police trick, the uniformed face of repression and the escape and astonishment of a civilian in the middle of a brawter?was the division of the nation itself, simple and direct: oppressed soldiers and resilient civilians. In the other photo, a policeman falls off his motorcycle: the government loses the reins of the nation.
Evandro Teixeira has also photographed celebrities, national and international politicians, as well as anonymous people during his career as a photojournalist, photographs that give a dimension to the plurality of the photographer who documented several moments that today are memories of Brazilian history.
Teixeira currently lives and lives in Rio de Janeiro, his works are full of expression and capture the decisive moment of Cartier-Bresson. It is impossible not to mention the history of Brazilian photography without mentioning Evandro Teixeira, one of our great photojournalists in the country I am very lucky to have you.