Biography

Anna Oswaldo Cruz an austrian-brazilian photographer, born 1965 in The Hague, Netherlands. She grew up in Rio de Janeiro, where she completed her highschool education. She began to study chemistry at Brown University, Providence, USA, but after moving to Europe, she decided to become a photographer, enrolling at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Fotografie in Munich, Germany, where she completed her education in 1990. She then settled in Barcelona, remaining dedicated to her profession. Her Writer portraits have been published by various publishing houses, such as Tusquets, Seix Barral, Anagrama, Planeta, Siruela, Muchnik Editores, Grupo 62, Dom Quixote, Random House Mondadori, Kastaniotis Editions, DTV, Klett-Cotta, Librairie Plon, Simon & Shuster, Companhia das Letras, Globo, W11 among others. Her work has also appeared in El País, La Vanguardia, Lateral, Que Leer, Jornal do Brasil and Berliner Tageszeitung, among others.

1994  Handwerksmuseum Deggendorf, Germany.
1996 Tartessos Library, Barcelona.
2001 Bienal do Livro in Rio de Janeiro: simultaneous exhibition
at the libraries Dantes, Argumento and Contracapa.
Espaço Pitanga, São Paulo.
2002 FNAC Barcelona.
FNAC Madrid.
2004 International Photography Festival of Rome, Brasilian
Embassy, Sala Cândido Portinari.
2008 Galería Joan Gaspar, Madrid (group show); Galería Joan Gaspar, Barcelona (group show); Galería Kowasa, Barcelona


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