About
A bit
about me
I was born in the vibrant city of Rio de Janeiro, but my heart belongs to many places. I’ve always felt like a citizen of the world, drawn to the stories that unfold in every corner.
I have a mild obsession for modern classic cars, those automotive creations from the 80s and 90s that once stirred our wildest dreams. It reminds me of an era filled with excitement and timeless designs. It’s an obsession I’ve learned to keep under control—mostly.
In 1989, I left home to study in Tennessee, USA, and a few years later I moved to Miami, that became my home away from home, where everyone has an accent, and it nurtured my creativity and shaped my creativity for over a decade.
Today, I live in Portugal, country that I first visited in 1989 with my parents, that has embraced me as much as I have embraced it, and it captured my heart—a love story that has grown ever since.
Some say, "I have to see it to believe it." I believe it’s the other way around: you need to believe first, and then you’ll see it.
The true essence of being a photographer is simply “be” in the right place at the right time, with your camera ready to capture the moment unfolding before you. The technicalities? Those come with time and experience. Photography is an adventure, one where you learn by immersing yourself in the moment, just like life itself. Every click is a lesson, every frame a story.
Yes, it is possible to capture the very essence—the "soul"—of a person in a single image. In that brief moment, the camera becomes a window to something deeper, metaphysical.
My passion for images, forms, and photography began in my childhood, observing every detail, every shadow, every shape as if the world was speaking to me through my eyes. During my college years, I took a photography course that awakened something profound in me, changing my life forever.
The rest is a journey in history and captured in images, each one a print of the moment that shaped me.
Home, after all, is not just a physical space; it is where your heart feels most alive and connected.
Visual Art is everything that relates to the pleasure act of visualizing – “seeing” – , it merges physics with abstract, in which joy, appreciation, takes place.
Today, more than ever, the Visual Arts became extended to many forms and its importance and dimension have increased exponentialy.
Photography is just one among so many manifestations such as: painting, sculpture, drawing, architecture, handicraft, cinema, design, urban art, and many others.
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
– Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 12, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
Adams was a key advisor in establishing the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an important landmark in securing photography’s institutional legitimacy. He helped to stage that department’s first photography exhibition, helped found the photography magazine Aperture, and co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams
