Antonio Cossa

Photographer

Antonio Cossa is a photojournalist originally from Mozambique, based in Prague. He has been working as a documentary photographer since 2004, collaborating with institutions such as the British Council and UNICEF. He has had a rich professional career focusing on war, refugee crises and social issues. His work has specialized in war conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, the refugee crisis on the Greek-Turkish border, documenting the situation of the Rohingya in Bangladesh and the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, Holocaust survivors project and so on. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, he has been officially accredited by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense as a war photojournalist. In recent years, he has also photographed climate refugees in Mozambique after Cyclone Idai. His latest project focuses on albino survivors of ritual attacks in Zambia.

He is also a portrait photographer and has photographed many of the world’s most famous people, including Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Jean Reno, Johnny Depp, Will Smith, Julliene More, Richard Gare, Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, BB.King, Steven Spielberg, Jeremy Renner, Harvey Keitel, John Travolta, Uma Thurman and the legendary Mike Tyson. His portfolio includes dozens of exhibitions around the world. Antonio has given lectures and held workshops at several notable institutions, such as Charles University, Warsaw University, the Jagiellonian University Museum in Poland, Olomoc University, Ostrava University, the University of New York in Prague and Prague College.

Antonio Cossa is also the founder of the non-governmental organization Frontline Care, whose main goal is to support victims of climate change and war refugees around the world.