Freelance ethnographer, researcher & consultant

Nike Football Culture in Latin America

We’ve completed the ethnographic research work for Nike and the result is a beautiful, 400-page book on football culture in Latin America. The research is in large part based upon visual ethnography by Jacob Langvad Nilsson. The book is a study of football culture among teens in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. The research sought to…

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On Location: Boy in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil

This is a photograph of a boy taken from Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil by photographer Jacob Langvad Nilsson. Ibirapuera Park is a major urban park in São Paulo, Brazil that has a large area for leisure, jogging and walking, as well as a convention center.


On Location: Skateboard in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil

This is a photograph of a a boy in skateboard taken from Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil by photographer Jacob Langvad Nilsson. Ibirapuera Park is a major urban park in São Paulo, Brazil that has a large area for leisure, jogging and walking, as well as a convention center.


Minas Gerais, Brazil in Progress

This is a photograph of a citizen in Minas Gerais, Brazil in Progress by photographer Jacob Langvad Nilsson. Their lives are undergoing a huge transformation because of their country’s progressive transformation.








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Human-centered Design Research in Emerging Markets


Jacob Langvad Nilsson continues to work persistently in the cross-section between editorial photojournalism and visual ethnography, pushing the boundaries of human-centered design research to tell stories about globalization, cultural shift, and the aspirations and desires of people living in a changing world.

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