Ana Angelica Costa
Brazil
Biography
Visual artist, researcher, and cultural manager, currently a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Arts of UNICAMP. She is co-founder of Projeto Subsolo, dedicated to the production of photography and contemporary art in Rio de Janeiro between 2005 and 2015. Her research focuses on pinhole photography and processes based on the camera obscura. Her work has been published in catalogs, shown in exhibitions in Brazil and Argentina, and forms part of the Joaquim Paiva Collection, on deposit at MAM Rio. She has received major recognitions including Projéteis de Arte Contemporânea, Interações Estéticas, and the 13th Marc Ferrez Photography Prize, among others. She founded Câmera Lúcida and Casa de Eva in Campinas, and was artistic coordinator of the Hercule Florence Photography Festival from 2021 to 2024. In 2025 she received the 17th Marc Ferrez Photography Prize to develop the project Body, Camera Obscura, Uterine Device – Female Protagonism in Brazilian Experimental Photography, a research project carried out in collaboration with Rosa Bunchaft. This year, as part of her doctoral research, she will transform a shipping container into a camera obscura. Her research approaches the camera obscura as a sensitive device of encounter.









