Rafael Duarte On Storytelling, Being An Ethical Consumer & Climate Change

Rafael Duarte is an award-winning photographer, documentarist, and journalist. He uses photography to document nature's riches, evoke reflections on human behaviour, and foster preservation of natural, historical, and cultural heritages on Earth. His work has been exhibited in galleries in France, England, Spain, and Brazil. He has also worked in partnership with domestic and international media outlets, such as National Geographic, Vice, Go Outside, Digital Photographer, and O Globo.

His films have been awarded worldwide and his most recent film, Beyond Dreams won an award at the Four Seasons Film festival - you can watch it on Amazon Prime. He is the founder of Miramundos expedition team, host of the Reconecta podcast and the director of Bambalaio, a production company and publishing house.

The key topics in today's episode:
- Winning film maker awards
- Climbing Everest
- Shooting the award winning film 'Beyond Dreams'
- Climbing mountains
- Being multi-creative
- Tips on story telling
- How consumer decisions are political
- Shopping ethical
- The governments role in being ethically political
- Climate change in Atafona
- Data variability on the effects of climate change

Video Version: https://youtu.be/mP9YqNo99l8

Connect with Rafael:
Website | http://rafaelduartephotography.com/
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/duarterafael
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/rafaelduartephotography/
Reconecta Podcast | https://podcasts.apple.com/br/podcast/reconecta/id1516920266?l=en

Rafael's story on Atafona referenced: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/in-brazil-human-action-and-climate-change-are-drowning-a-community/

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