Betina Samaia is a Brazilian photographer. Born in São Paulo (SP), in 1964, she holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from PUC-SP (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo) and seeks to register images from the unconscious by traveling, freely moving between past and present, reality and imagination.

With series named Through the Mirror, Choreography of Chaos, The Forests of My Dreams, Nocturnes, Amazon -The Green’s End, India – Memories of What I Have Never Seen, Africa, among others, she has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Brazil, France, Morocco and the United States.

Over the past decade, her photo essays have been featured in the Espace des Arts Sans Frontières (Paris), La Quatrième Image (Paris), Magic Brésil (Paris), Carrousel du Louvre (Paris), Natural History Museum (Cremona), Le Rencontres de La Photographie Marrakesh (Morroco), Le Magazyn (California), Nacional Historical Museum (Rio de Janeiro), Casa Proeza (Rio de Janeiro), Paraty em Foco – International Photography Festival (Rio de Janeiro), Casa da Cultura de Paraty (Rio de Janeiro), Museum of Image and Sound (São Paulo), Art 57 Gallery (São Paulo), Centro Cultural da Caixa Econômica (São Paulo), Carbono Gallery (São Paulo), Valu Oria Gallery (São Paulo), Via Foto Institute (São Paulo), ArteFormatto Gallery (São Paulo), Festival Transatlântico – Mario Cravo Neto Institute.

Winner of several international prizes, She is the author of the books Amazon – The Green’s End (Edition Bessard, 2021), Multiverso – Quarentena Books 2 (IpsisPub, 2021), Out into the Night (Madalena Publisher, 2017), and Blue (Madalena Publisher, 2015).