About Us
Hi there! Welcome to our website…
Just so you all know, garapa is the sugarcane juice, the one that, after processing, becomes molasses, sugar, cachaça (caipirinha’s base liquor) and ethanol. And why Garapa? Oh, we just like the way the word sounds… the juice is pretty tasty, though! Have you noticed we’re from Brazil?
So, what’s this Garapa, with capital G?
We’re a group of photojournalists (a trio, in fact) who want to go beyond the four lines that draw an image. We always wanted to tell stories; the thing is, when we were out there, talking to people, making photographs, we always felt that something was missing. We wanted to let people talk, we wanted to let other people hear and see what we were witnessing.
And then we started playing with photos and sound and video, all together, and we thought that this would be a good way to let the stories flow. And here we are.
Basically, we’re a multimedia production collective, based in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. Our main goal is to make good multimedia storytelling, using photography, audio, video, interactivity and whatever else comes our way, for distribution across multiple media, specially the internet. Our home is Brazil, therefore, Latin America.
Feel free to contact us if you’re interested. We’re always up for a good story.
Garapa is:
Leo Caobelli
Free-lance photojournalist, has worked for many of brazilian main newspapers and magazines, such as Folha de S. Paulo. Selected, in 2005, for Fabrica, Benetton’s media research center, in Treviso, Italy;
Paulo Fehlauer
Free-lance photojournalist, writer and blogger, has worked for many of brazilian main newspapers and magazines, such as Folha de S. Paulo. Lived in New York City for 2 years, where he worked and studied at the International Center of Photography. Worked as an assistant for award-winning photojournalist Marc Asnin, and with photographer Ed Kashi on National Geographic’s PhotoCamp;
Rodrigo Marcondes
Free-lance photojournalist, has worked for many of brazilian main newspapers and magazines, such as Folha de S. Paulo, having lived in Italy and the UK. Since 2002, he works with Imagemagica, a non-profit photography organization, teaching photography to youngsters from poor neighborhoods in São Paulo.