Jorge Bechara

Jorge Bechara is a photojournalist based in Sydney, Australia as a foreign correspondent for major press agencies, newspapers and magazines around the world.

Specialized in Documentary Photography, his work has been published by The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, [http://www.afrmagazine.com/ The Australian Financial Review Magazine] , [http://thesydneymagazine.smh.com.au The (Sydney) Magazine] , [http://www.luxurytravelmag.com.au/Home.aspx?element=1&category=1 Luxury Travel] , The Sunday Telegraph, Condé Nast Traveler, The Economist, Tages-Anzeiger Switzerland.

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Jorge Bechara has been living in Australia since 1998.

Publications

The Australian

The Sydney Morning Herald
[http://www.afrmagazine.com/ The Australian Financial Review Magazine]
[http://thesydneymagazine.smh.com.au The (Sydney) Magazine]
[http://www.luxurytravelmag.com.au/Home.aspx?element=1&category=1 Luxury Travel]

The Sunday Telegraph

Condé Nast Traveler

The Economist

Tages-Anzeiger Switzerland

O Estado de S. Paulo

Folha de S. Paulo

Biography

Jorge Bechara first formal education in photography was at the tertiary course of Journalism which he attented at the Universidade da Cidade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the 1980s. His interest in documentary photography began when he was the manager of media relations of MASP - São Paulo Museum of Art, under de direction of professor Pietro Maria Bardi, and MAM - São Paulo Museum of Modern Art. From 1987 to 1993 he was Involved in the organization of exhibitions of the original work of some of the 20th century most prominent photographers, such as August Sander, Lennart Nilsson, Sebastião Salgado, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
In parallel with his photographic work, Jorge Bechara has been writing for publications worldwide and teaching in established institutions.

External links

* [http://www.foreigncorrespondents.org/photographs/09Bechara.html Rail]
* [http://www.foreigncorrespondents.org/photographs/11Bechara.html Protest]
* [http://www.foreigncorrespondents.org/photographs/08Bechara.html Fashion]
* [http://www.smh.com.au/news/good-living/the-gold-is-in-the-pan/2006/04/10/1144521250192.html The gold is in the pan]
* [http://www.nundle.info/nundle/resources/Nundle.pdf Nundle]
* [http://www.foreigncorrespondents.org/NewsLetters/pdf/CorrespondentP5-8.pdf Wadeye]
* [http://photos.uol.com.br/materia.asp?id_materia=2155# Photos]

References

"Thanks for making Lennart Nilsson so popular in S.Paulo". Erik Svedelius, doyen of the Scandinavian community in Brazil.

"Your photographs are fantastic. You captured the atmosphere". Oscar Castro-Neves, guitarist, arranger and composer considered a founding figure in Bossa Nova

"Jorge Bechara is an enterprising, creative and passionate photographer. Apart from his technical mastery, he is also becomes deeply involved in the subject matter - teasing out the very best from a location, subject, performance ot event. He is a photojournalist who always manages to retain a fresh and inquisitive eye". Mark Chipperfield [ Sydney-based travel writer and editor and former Australia correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph (London). Mark is currently a senior editor on the (Sydney) magazine, pubished by The Sydney Morning Herald. His work also appears in a number of British publications, including The Daily Telegraph. The Evening Standard and Conde Nast Traveller magazine.] , Senior Editor, [http://www.fairfax.com.au/index.ac Fairfax Media]

"Your pictures are fabulous"... Robert Milliken [International acclaimed journalist who has written for newspapers and magazines in Britain, Australia and the United States. Author of the books 'On The Edge', a collection of essays on rural Australia, and 'No Conceivable Injury' (Penguin) regarded as the definitive account of the British atomic weapon tests at Maralinga, in the Australian desert. Robert’s latest work is a biography of Lillian Roxon, the fast-living Australian journalist who compiled the world’s first Rock Encyclopedia and who died tragically in New York in 1973 aged 41. It was published by Black Inc. in Australia in 2002 and US publisher Thunder’s Mouth Press in 2005.] , Australian author and correspondent for The Economist

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