Caio Reisewitz is of German ancestry. He studied in his home city and in Germany. He graduated in Visual Communication from the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado Higher Education Centre (São Paulo, 1989). He majored in Design at the Fachobershule - Peter Behrens Schule Technical College (Darmstadt, Germany, 1991) and in Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz (Germany, 1997). His photographs are characterised by their face-on perspectives and their documentary style. His time in Germany enabled him to align them with the tradition of the Düsseldorf School. After almost ten years abroad, he returned to Brazil and completed a Master's Degree in Fine Arts at the University of São Paulo (2009).

His work shows commitment to social issues and is focused on his home country, especially on São Paulo and the surrounding areas. In his large-format, colour photographs, centre stage is given over to beautiful, 'utopian' landscapes of virgin forest, in an effective denunciation of the threat posed by continuous urban sprawl. That sprawl is rapidly changing the spatial relationship between urban and natural areas. Reisewitz's photos thus depict an ephemeral reality that highlights the environmental dangers inherent in the large-scale destruction of forests in Brazil.

His interest is always attracted by the links between human beings and their environment. He is also fascinated by the lines of São Paulo's modernist architecture and its contrast with the organic randomness of nature in Brazil.

In 2010 he began to work on projects less influenced by the German viewpoint and closer to Brazilian art. These included much smaller, hand-made collages laden with information, in which urban and natural elements blend in a way that disorients viewers and enhances the tension between cities and nature.

Reisewitz represented Brazil at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Solo exhibitions of his work have been staged at the Maison Europeénne de la Photographie (Paris, 2015), the Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie (Amsterdam, 2015), the International Center for Photography (New York, 2014) and the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (2009), among other venues.

Isabel Tejeda