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Claudio Maria Lerario

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Co-founder of Ayzoh!. Claudio has worked as a professional photographer since 1992. He has taken assignments worldwide across advertising, publishing, and photojournalism. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications on four continents. In 2008, in Bahia, he photographed an Indigenous community resisting drug trafficking. There he saw how often small, marginalized communities struggle to share their projects and demands because they lack resources and access. He left commercial photography behind. He founded Ayzoh! and focused on producing high-quality editorial work alongside communities that rarely get the tools to tell their own story. Since then, he has developed dozens of projects across Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

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