Besides a nature photographer, Daniel De Granville Manço is a Biologist, ecotourism guide and environmental consultant, working with photography since 1996.

His interest for the activity became more intense as he spent five years in the Pantanal (1994-1999), when he worked for several professional photographers, taking advantage of these opportunities to learn and improve his skills.

During the year of 2003 he worked as a guide, photo assistant and production coordinator for the National Geographic Magazine, having spent four months in the Pantanal of Brazil with photographer Joel Sartore for a story which was published in the August 2005 issue of this magazine. At the end of the same year, Daniel was hired again by the National Geographic, this time with Colombian photographer Luis Mazariegos, who is currently working on a story about hummingbirds to be published in 2006. Mazariegos, author of the praised book "Hummingbirds of Colombia" and a specialist on hummingbird photography for over 25 years, is currently considered as the photographer who has the world’s vastest image collection in terms of species of these birds.

See National Geographic Magazine recommendation letter.

Publications and Exhibits:

• Department of Culture of Munich (Germany) – three-month sponsored stay working on photo assignments and exhibitions for the "Macunaíma Besucht Bayern" cultural project (2006).
• Embassy of Brazil in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) – three photographs published in promotional brochures about tourism in Brazil (2006).
• National Geographic Society – pictures published in the magazines and websites of National Geographic and National Geographic Explorer.
• Bonito Field Guide – Knowing the Fauna and Flora of the Bodoquena Plateau, published in 2005 (5000 prints).
• Brazilian Ministry of Environment – photograph published in promotional matter for UNESCO’s and the United Nations Foundation’s “Brazilian World Natural Heritage Sites” Program (2004).
• Brazilian Ministry of Environment – photographs published in promotional matter for the “National Ecotourism Program” - PROECOTUR (2004).
• Bonito Winter Festival – photo exhibit the event’s official program in 2001 and 2002.
• Brasil Telecom – photographs published in phone calling cards of this company, with a total printing of 230,000 copies (2001).
• Guia Ecológico Brasil / Bonito Region (Brazil) – photographs published on the 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of this travel guide.
• “Pantanal Vai à Praia” Cultural Project - 73 traveling exhibits shown in Ribeirão Preto (Brazil), Brazil’s Northeast and Mato Grosso do Sul States (1999).
• Permanent and temporary photo galleries on websites.

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