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Mac Margolis went to Brazil for a few months in 1982 and never left. From his base in Rio de Janeiro, he has traveled extensively in Latin America since the 1980s, as a correspondent for Newsweek and contributing frequently to other publications, including The Economist, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor. He has won a number of journalism awards, including a fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Foundation for Journalists, which led to a book on the Amazon rainforest, The Last New World: The Conquest of the Amazon Frontier (W.W. Norton 1992). In 2002, he won Brazil's Embratel Press Award's Foreign Correspondent award for "Brazil's Big Failure," a Newsweek cover story on Brazilian land reform. In 2003, the Columbia University School of Journalism granted him the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, for his work on Brazil. Mac writes a weekly column on Latin America for O Estado de São Paulo. He lives in Rio with his wife and daughter.
Brazil in Focus photo editor Ricardo Azoury has been an acute observer of his native country for many years. More than landscapes, Brazilian reality has been the focus of this prizewinning Rio de Janeiro-born photographer. For the last three decades he has traversed Latin America's largest and most complex nation, from the sprawling pampas in the south to the dense rainforests of the Amazon basin, documenting the people and their culture, and the vast diversity of Brazilian wildlife. "Traveling through Brazil and South America has given me a richer sense of the problems, challenges, and the promise of this continent-sized country," Ricardo says. Lately, Ricardo has taken his trade to another frontier, mastering scuba diving and the art of underwater photography. He is the author of several books on Brazil, including Parque Nacional da Tijuca: 140 anos, on one of the world's biggest urban forests, Submerso: o Brasil oceânico (Underwater: Oceanic Brazil), and the forthcoming Peixes do Brasil (Fishes of Brazil).
After a year of volunteer work in São Paulo and another studying at the Catholic University (PUC) in Rio de Janeiro, Roman Gautam has officially fallen for Brazil. In addition to his work for Focus on Brazil, he is currently a senior at Amherst College, and contributes regularly to blogs and publications based out of his native Kathmandu. Roman joins BIF as assistant editor.
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