BIO
Julio Bittencourt is a professional corporate, industrial, and portrait photographer based in Paris, France and São Paulo, Brazil. With over 20 years of experience, he works with multinational corporations, editorial publications, and publishers across Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
Having grown up between São Paulo and New York, Bittencourt brings a global perspective and a unique artistic eye to corporate photography, including corporate portraits, industrial photography, and architectural photography. His work blends visual storytelling with strong technical expertise.
Julio has photographed more than 80 books for publishers / companies, and his personal photography projects have been exhibited at museums, galleries, and international festivals.
He is also the author of three photography books and you can view his projects here.
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When I was 19, I landed an internship or more accurately, became the assistant to the assistant at Valor Econômico, a newly launched financial newspaper in São Paulo, Brazil. My days were filled with fetching coffee, picking up snacks from the cafeteria for the senior staff, running upstairs to the darkroom to deliver and retrieve slides, scanning images, answering the ever-ringing phones, and organizing thousands of negatives and slides in the archives. I even got pranked a few times. That year and a half in the newsroom was, without question, the best education I could have hoped for.
Eventually, I was offered a staff photographer position, focusing mainly on portraiture. Not long after, I left for Mozambique — my first experience working solo and also the first time I tried to tell a story of my own through images. As it often goes, the first project didn’t quite work out. Neither did the second, already back in Brazil.
It was on the third attempt — just a 20 minute car ride from my mother’s apartment in São Paulo — that I shot my first book: "In a Window of Prestes Maia 911 Building", the result of a four-year journey.
Having spent my childhood in São Paulo and my teenage years in New York, I’ve long been fascinated by the ways we inhabit our cities and how and why we live as we do. For the past 23 years, photography has been the language through which I’ve explored social and political questions that emerge from these relationships between people and the spaces we occupy.
Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a diverse group of galleries, publishers, editors, and commercial clients, each one shaping my path in meaningful ways.
Today, I live in Paris and São Paulo and am currently represented by Galeria Lume in São Paulo and Galeria da Gávea in Rio de Janeiro.
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Clients Include: Adidas, Renault, BIC, Saint-Gobain, Hershey’s, BASF, Air Liquide, Banque Richelieu, Fiat Chrysler, Bayer, GenOway, Nubank, Singer, ZEISS, Kinross, Danfoss, 3M, Shell, Ambev, Sakata, Embraer, Natura, Petrobrás, Cosan, Bradesco, Itaú Unibanco, Telefônica, Gerdau, WEG, Boticário, JBS, Alpargatas, Bracell, Copagaz, and LD Celulose, amongst others.
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