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Daniel De Granville
Besides working as a professional photographer since 1999, Daniel De Granville Manço is a Biologist with postgraduate degree in Science Journalism by the renowned State Universities of São Paulo (USP) and Campinas (Unicamp). Born and raised in Brazil, Daniel has dedicated his career to nature photography and ecotourism. The varied subjects covered during his studies range from scientific research with bats of the Atlantic Rainforest to a documentary about Afro religions that worship nature.
He has lived in the USA, Germany, the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil and ranches in the Pantanal Wetlands, where he managed ecotourism operations and developed his taste for nature photography. Daniel currently lives and works in Bonito, a popular nature tourism destination in the Cerrado Savannas of Central West Brazil. He has experienced ecotourism operations and photographed in every biome of his country, besides the USA, Germany, South Africa, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Venezuela.
Daniel works on a regular basis in ecotourism operations as a guide, teacher and consultant, developing customized programs, training personnel and guiding special interest travelers such as scientists, educators, high school and undergraduate students, tourism professionals, photographers and media companies, for which he also makes production jobs.
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Daniel’s photo work has become acknowledged over the last years. Besides exhibitions and prizes in Brazil, he has shown his photos in Germany by invitation from the Munich Cultural Department (where the exhibition was visited and publicly acclaimed by Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil), in the USA (upon invitation from North Carolina State University) and in Argentina (during the South American Bird Fair). He has done photo documentation jobs for institutions such as WWF and Conservation International (Brazil branches), Itaipu Binacional Hydroelectric Plant, Petrobras (Brazilian Oil Co.) and MMX Mining Co., among others.
He released his first book – the “Bonito Field Guide” – in 2005, and in 2008 the “Água Boa" book was published, with photographs by him and text by renowned Brazilian environmental journalist Marcos Sá Corrêa. Among other companies, his pictures have been published by the National Geographic, Brazilian Ministry of Environment, Munich’s Cultural Department (Germany) and Brazilian Embassy at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), besides magazines and books in Japan, Argentina, Uruguay, Hungary, Turkey, Holland, Spain and Italy.
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The list of guests that Daniel has already worked for include widely known persons such as actor Harrison Ford and André Hoffman, vice-president of WWF International. He has also produced and leaded wildlife expeditions for the National Geogrpahic Magazine, BBC, NHK (Japan), TF1 (France) and Animal Planet throughout Brazil. Study trips across the country have been done with elementary school, high school, college students and educators from Brazil and the USA.
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“The Pantanal was the best story that I’ve ever done abroad, thanks to Daniel. He is far and away the best guide and assistant I have ever worked with, and I couldn't have made my photographs without him. We traveled to places where photos had rarely, if ever, been taken. But Daniel knew his way around.” (Joel Sartore, National Geographic Magazine)
“Our guide, Daniel De Granville, is a celebrated wildlife photographer himself, whom I recommend highly to anyone who ventures into Brazil’s wilderness. He planed everything and researched my unusual requests, was very supportive and photographer friendly during the entire journey.” (Amos Nachoum, BigAnimals.com)
“You make poetry with your images, your pictures are a visual poem.” (Gilberto Gil, Brazilian Minister of Culture)
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Tietta Pivatto
Maria Antonietta Castro Pivatto is a Biology Major specialized in Ecology and Ecotourism, with an MSC degree in Environment and Regional Development. She is also a certified ecoturism guide specialized in natural attractions.
Born and raised in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, Tietta lives in the Pantanal and Bonito region since 1997. For 15 years her main duty was to guide nature programs for different age groups such as school children, teenagers and adults with special interests related to nature.
During the past years, Tietta has dedicated her career to developing programs, inventories, on-site infrastructure and professional training for birdwatching activities, besides carrying out scientific research studies with local avifauna in the Cerrado Savannas and Pantanal Wetlands. She is an environmental consultant and one of the authors of the “Bonito Field Guide”, published in 2005.
Tietta has also worked as a teacher and coordinator in technical courses for tour conductors and guides throughout Brazil. She gives talks about birdwatching and conservation on a regular basis, having done presentations in several cities of Brazil, besides Portugal and Argentina. She has created the country’s first Distance Learning Course about birdwatching and is an active collaborator and promoter of the Brazilian Bird Fair (Avistar Brasil) since 2006. Her blog Bonito Birdwatching has been awarded for two consecutive years – 2009 and 2010 – at the national Top Blog contest (first prize in the Sustainability Category).
