Sinara Sandri

Brazil/Portugal

Journalist, Director of FestFoto, PhD in Communication, Master in History of Brazil Researcher in post-doctoral internship at the University of Coimbra/Portugal.

Co-founder and co-coordinator of FestFoto Brazil – Porto Alegre International Photography Festival,
since 2007. Coordinator of the International Portfolio Reading Platform and juror for FestFoto’s Fotograma Livre International Call for Entries.
Curator of the Terrarium exhibition (FestFoto 2022)
Guest curator of the Ten by Ten exhibition (FotoFest Houston 2022)
Curator of the International Takeover (FestFoto 2021)
Curator of Silence, online exhibition (FestFoto 2021)
Reviewer of the Portfolio reading for FestFoto and FotoFest Houston 2020
Associate curator of the shows Diasporas (2019) and Emergencies of the Global South (FestFoto)
Assistant curator of the show Liquid Cities | 41 Stations at the AMA (Art Museum of Americas), Washington (D.C), 2020
Curator of the show Virgilio Calegari, un cavelieri tra due mondi at the FotoRio Festival (2010).
Member of the team that formulated the project for the Palacinho Cultural Centre – Fototeca do Rio Grande do Sul Fototech, in Porto Alegre.
Researcher focussing on photography and urban studies.