Documentary photographer in the Brazilian Amazon

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Alessandro Falco (b. 1986) is a documentary photographer based in the Brazilian Amazon. His work focuses on the social and environmental conflicts shaping the Amazon and its communities, with particular attention to land, climate and cultural change.

In 2025 and 2026, he contributed to The New York Times with a series of international assignments, resulting in four front-page stories addressing energy inequality in the Amazon, pesticide-related suicides in Suriname, and Brazil’s fight against dengue.

His photographs from the region have also been published by leading international outlets including National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel and Folha de S.Paulo, among others.

He lives in Belém do Pará, at the mouth of the Amazon River.