Adriana Zehbrauskas was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She received her degree in Journalism in 1989 and moved to Paris where she studied Linguistics and Phonetics at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. She worked as a staff photographer for Folha de S. Paulo, in Brazil, for 11 years, traveling extensively troughout the country and abroad.

As a  free-lancer, she contributes regularly with the New York Times. Other clients include the Wall Street Journal, Glamour Magazine, The Guardian, Paris Match, Le Figaro, Newsweek, Save the Children and the World Food Program, among others.

Her photos are also featured in the books ’24 Stunden im Leben der katholischen Kirche’, Random House , Munich,  2005 ,  ’In Search of Hope – The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl’, powerHouse Books, New York, 2007 and the ‘Nike Human Race’ , New York,  2008.

Her project on Faith in Brazil and Mexico was awarded  a Art & Worship World Prize by the Niavaran Artistic Creation Foundation and she was a nominee for the New York Photo Awards 2009. Represented by Polaris Images, NY