Miguel Rio Branco (born 1946) is a Brazilian photographer, painter, and filmmaker (director and cinematographer).

[1] His work has focused on Brazil and included photojournalism, and social and political criticism.

Rio Branco was born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands.

[3][4] His parents were diplomats and he spent his childhood in Portugal, Switzerland, Brazil and the United States.

[2] Rio Branco's Silent Book (1997) is included in Parr and Badger's The Photobook: A History, Volume II.