About
A bit
about me
Hi, my name is Leandro, and I'm a photographer.
I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but I'm a citizen of the world.
I have a mild obsession (but now under control) with modern classic cars, those we lusted during the 80s and 90s.
In 1989 I left home to study in North America where I graduated in Advertising, and in the mid 90's I moved to Miami, place where I continued my education and worked in and out of my profession for over 10 years.
Today I live in Portugal with my family, land that I visited with my parents in 1989, which I love and adopted as my own country.
Some people say "I have to see to believe it." I personaly think it's the other way around. You first have to believe, then you start to see it ...
The main pre-requisite for being a photographer is to be at the right place at the right time with your camera ready to shoot. The technical part you end up learning along the way. It's like everything in life.
It's an art to capture the "soul" of a person in a single image, but it's possible.
My passion for images, forms, sculptures and photography, started in my early childhood, by watching and paying attention to every little detail. During my college years, I took a photography course that changed my life forever. The rest is history and images.
Home is not a physical place, but where your heart is.
Visual Art
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 increase 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. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating “pure” photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed an exacting system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a deeply technical understanding of how tonal range is recorded and developed during exposure, negative development, and printing. The resulting clarity and depth of such images characterized his photography.
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
