Orlando Brito
Acting
Biography
Orlando Péricles Brito de Oliveira (Janaúba, February 8, 1950 — Taguatinga, March 11, 2022) was a Brazilian photojournalist. In his almost sixty-year career, he portrayed scenes from national politics. It also followed social and indigenous issues and sporting events, covering events in more than sixty countries.
Known For
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registered through the keen and sensitive perspective of photographer Orlando Brito, in a career spanning 50 years as a professional. From the political sidelines to the lives of Brazilians from the interior, Brito recalls experiences and discusses the role of the photographer and the pain of registering someone’s grief.