Vincent Rosenblatt, a Parisian, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
When a student of History, between 1989 and 1997 Vincent traveled to Poland on several occasions and developed his interest in Photography and gets his first assignments for the Press. He returned to Paris to study at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts (ENSBA) in the Atelier of Lesly Hamilton where he graduated in 2001. In 2000 on a Colin-Lefranc exchange scholarship he discovered Brazil for the first time.
Rosenblatt moved to Rio de Janeiro in 2002 and set up a photography workshop: ‘Olhares do Morro’ on the hills of Santa Marta favela, providing a place where local youth could develop themselves and study photography. Some have grown into successful photographers. The international press has regularly singled out their portofolios due to their immediacy and authenticity. Olhares do Morro has exhibited at the Unesco headquarters in Paris (2004), Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, Art Basel Miami Beach as art institution (2005), and in Stockholm (2006) and Brasilia (2007). The project ended in 2008.
Whilst working as a photojournalist, Vincent has documented the underground scene of Baile Funk and urban fringe cultures in Brazil since 2005 from when he started a collaboration with the Rio Baile Funk organisers, dj’s and dancers.
Main recent exhibitions:
Solo shows :
MEP (Maison Européenne de la Photographie) - Paris 2011
Alliance Française - Rio de Janeiro - 2014
CACP - Vila Pérochon in Niort - 2015
SESC Madureira in Rio de Janeiro - 2016
« Febre Nocturna » at the Centro Cultural Internacional of Panama City in 2019
Galeria da Gavea - 2020
Alliance Française - Rio de Janeiro 2022
Galerie Pierre Passebon / Galerie du Passage - Paris 2022
Cidade Matarazzo - Permanent installation - 9th floor of the Rosewood São Paulo, 2023
Tour Saint-Jacques - Paris, 2024
Collective shows:
Cidade Matarazzo ("Made by / Feito por Brasileiros"exhibit) in São Paulo - 2014
MAR (Museum of Arte of Rio) “Rio, uma paixão francesa”. 2015
BLAM Projects in NYC 2017
‘Designing Club Culture 1960-Today’ at Vitra Design Museum" - 2018
“Historias Afro-Atlanticas” - MASP (Museum of Art of São Paulo) - 2018
”Electro” - Philarmonie de Paris - 2019
”Praia” - Galeria da Gavea - Rio de Janeiro - 2019
“Brazil - Iran, Colors & Forms”, High Line Nine Gallery, NYC, USA, 2023
”Da avenida à Harmonia” - Instituto Inclusartiz, Rio de Janeiro, 2023
”Dance & Music” - Galerie du Jour, Fondation Agnès B., Paris 2023
”Resilient Moves” - Homaar / Galerie Houg - Paris, 2023
”Funk - um grito de ousadia & liberdade” - MAR (Museu de Arte do Rio), 2023 /2024
Published in: New York Times (Lens), National Geographic, Le Monde, Gente di Fotografia, Gup, Revista Piauí, Dummy, Libération, Geo, Courrier International, Dagens Næringsliv, Der Spiegel, SZ, Trax, Repubblica Delle Donne, Afisha-Mir, among many others.
For inquiries concerning commissioned work or purchasing a printed work, please write to Vincent through the contact form .
Curators, collectors, art buyers, writers & journalists visiting Rio de Janeiro are welcome to visit his space.
