Girl From Ipanema

• Prize
• Photographer
  Luciana Whitaker, Brazil
• Studio
  Luciana Whitaker
• Website
  https://lucianawhitaker.com
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GIRLS FROM IPANEMA

I am a Carioca – a person born in Rio, Brazil - who loves the beach and my city. At my
favorite part of the beach _ a spot in Ipanema by the tallest coconut tree _ at the end of
the day, when light is soft and the Two Brothers Mountains stand out in the horizon like
kings, a most beautiful show happens at the edge of the water. It starts at 5pm because
the law says so. Beautiful youngsters play Altinha. Altinha means highball. You can only
use soccer moves but it has not a goal. Nobody wins, nobody looses. Everybody has fun and
the better you play, the more fun it gets. The women that play it, along with the guys,
are amazingly beautiful and talented. They try to practice it everyday. They live next to
the beach and are able to do so daily. It is here that you will find the new girl from
Ipanema. They are goddesses, they are perfect, and they can fly.

Luciana Whitaker has never let boundaries get in her way. Graduated in Visual Communication in Rio, photographed for NY Newsday, worked as photo editor at Brazil's largest daily and lived with Iñupiaq Eskimos for 10 ys in Alaska, documenting sustainable whaling. Whitaker shoots for news and corporate clients in US, Europe and Brazil. Her photography is featured at the Smithsonian, Iñupiat Heritage Center and Alaska Contemporary Art Bank. In 2013 she took first prize in photojournalism for Latin America and in 2015 was part of Photo España. Whitaker was Photo Manager in the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Awards COLLECTIONS
Alaska Contemporary Art Bank 2013
Ukpeagvik Iñupiat Corporation. Washington DC. Twenty photographs 2012
Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center. Anchorage, Alaska. Sharing Knowledge 2009
Iñupiat Heritage Center. Barrow, Alaska. 300 images 2002
Ukpeagvik Iñupiat Corporation. Anchorage, Alaska. Twenty photographs 2008
North-Slope Borough. Barrow, Alaska. 20 images 2007

SELECTED AWARDS
International Photography Awards, USA, professional, Envirnonmental 2011
Michael H. Kellicut International, USA 2011
Trasatlántica PhotoEspaña 2011. Selected photographer 2010
The Millennium Photo Project, Canada. Judge’s Award Photo 2000
Best of Photography Annual, USA. Honorable Mention 1997
FINEP Salon of Photojournalism, Brazil 1995
Exxon Award of Journalism/Prêmio Esso, Brazil 1994
Folha de S. Paulo Award of Journalism, Brazil. Best Picture Published 1993
Nikon International Contest, Japan. Color Photography 1991/1992
Coca-Cola Award, ROCK IN RIO II, Best Picture 1991

SELECTED EXHIBITS
A New Image of Latin America. Photojournalism, 1st place, Argentina 2013
Earth Through a Lens, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego 2012
Women’s Works 2012 25th Anniversary Show. Woodstock, Illimois, USA, 2012
Bergson Equivalents. Atelir da Imagem, Rio, Brazil, 2011
Michael H. Kellicut International Photo Show, USA 2011
Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska. Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, Anchorage Museum, Alaska 2010
People of Whaling. Solo photo exhibit at Iñupiat Heritage Center Museum, Barrow, Alaska, USA 2004-2009
Whale Hunters. Solo exhibit, Museu da Republica, Rio, Brazil 2007
Quonset Huts: Metal Living for a Modern Age. Anchorage Museum of History and Art, USA 2005-2006
Down of the 21st Century: The Millennium Photo Project. International traveling exhibition 2000
FINEP Salon of Photojournalism 1995. National Photojournalism, FINEP Gallery, Rio, Brazil 1996
II Biennial of Photography in São Paulo. National Photojournalism, Brazil 1995