Breaching the Fence
For a long time I had been trying to convince Edu to go out with me to make some pictures. A while ago he told me that there was a missing section in the iron bars that enclosed a gated public park near his home. It was what […]
Moviegoers, or Your Own Private Moviemaker…
One of the photos I made of filmaker Antony Hickling is the newest image from the project that can be purchased. Its making was possible during the fourth edition of DIGO – Goias Diversity Film Festival, in Goiânia, Brazil, which had Mr. Hickling among the invited guests. We […]
The Long and Darkening Road
The more I talked with Luís about the situations we might portray in the photos, the more it all looked to me like a metaphor for the times we are living in Brazil.* Ideas revolving around situations of helplessness, isolation, and imminent danger. Being overpowered by forces […]
Domingo
No último dia da exposição tivemos um visitante/fotografado logo cedo. Dann veio se ver e concordamos que ele ficava muito melhor se vendo da mesma forma em que aparecia na foto, que fizemos há uns anos no intervalo das filmagens do curta do Marcio Miranda Perez, inspirado no […]
About Last Friday
Pra o último fim de semana da exposição eu queria deixar o espaço livre pra quem quisesse chegar e ser fotografado, ou só ficar à vontade, visitando o local pelado também. Depois de alguma conversa com a administração isso foi permitido e parti pra testar fotos no local. […]
Cadafalso
This week the process of ousting the elected president of Brazil has seen its darkest days. Nothing short of a coup, for its weak legal foundations and pretexts, it consolidated all power in the worst possible representatives in our politics: the retrograde, corrupt, right wing, religious (insert your […]
Intimate Landscapes – Al
Tight schedules, involving me, Al, and his husband, almost didn´t allow me to take these photos. But in the end it all went smoothly and his hubby even helped a bit on the making of the images. Thank you guys.
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A couple years ago, on our way back from shooting in one of Rio´s beaches, me and my friend Damiel found this little kiosk. We stoped for a minute to take a pic over there. I first tought of publishing in the folowing weeks, but decided to put […]
