SLIDELUCK POTSHOW São Paulo

Im helping to bring slideluck potshow to Brasil for the first time. It will take place here in São Paulo 15th of february and in Rio 22th of February. Please check the website for more information on the event and in how to send us your work.

SLIDELUCK POTSHOW São Paulo

SLIDELUCK POTSHOW

Cidade Maravilhosa

The Cristo Redentor statue looks over Favela do Pavão.
Sunset from my brothers window.

I'm back from Rio after a weekend off some work and loads of carnaval...the city is already full of music and carnaval has taken over the streets. Some of the most famous organizations ( Blocos as we call them ) are charging there batteries for the four days off official celebrations. Only these weekend, Suvaco do Cristo, Bola Preta, Espanta Nenem, Imprensa and others where out making noise and bringing people together to celebrate...the atmosphere in the city was amazing. Yes, "O Rio de janeiro continua lindo"!!

If you have the chance to go..please don't thing again.

Back to the sea.

Im leaving today for Rio de Janeiro...i don't know if i will be able to post. So, i leave you with a bit of sea.

O mar
Quando quebra na praia
É bonito...é bonito...

"Dorival Caymmi"

MASP Pirelli Collection

Since 1991 a group of curators and photography scholars have being working together with MASP ( São Paulo Art Museum) and Pirelli to great what is today the biggest reference on Brazilian photography. Every year, Piero Sierra, Luiz S. Hossaka, Mario Cohen, Thomaz Farkas, Rubens Fernandes Junior and Boris Kossoy select a group of photographers that represent the production in the country that year. They also select work from the past that was not wet recognized, that way creating an historic reference on Brazilian photography. The work selected is published in a catalog and turns in to an exhibit. But the great news is that finally the collection, its artists and works, is online in a very nice website...check it out and learn some more about Brazilian photography:

Coleção MASP Pirelli de fotografia

Windson Negão

When i asked Windson or Negão, as his freinds call him,to take his picture he had just come out of the water.Windson was diving,looking for dinner. He told me that he can stay up to 2, 3 minutes under water just with his lungs. Windson is not from Barra Grande, his grandmother leaves there...he comes every school vacation or holidays.
I'm sure his grandmother prepared a great Muqueca with the beautiful Morey he had killed.

One image no words....

Bimba and Diamante.

One of the main reasons i love photography so much is because it gives me the possibility to meet new and interesting people, explore and keep my curiosity always a life. In Barra Grande i found these great guy and his "pet". Bimba found Diamante, an Brazilian condor, very young...he had fallen from his nest. So Bimba took him home and took care of the bird as if it was his child..he feeds him fresh meat and gives him showers. When Bimba rides his motorcycle Diamante follows flying..the same happens when the fisherman goes for a run in the beach. You may imagine that Bimba and Diamante are already celebrities in Barra Grande...everyone knows there story back there...and like he told me i wasn't the first to take there picture.

The Whale Hunt Project

I was reading the newspaper these morning and found these very interesting web project.We all know that internet and New Media are changing a lot the way we tell and read storys...the web designer and artist Jonathan Harris is one of the driving forces pushing these foward. After studyng at FABRICA Jonathan started working in personal web based projects always trying to create new ways of using the web to tell storys. He just created the The Whale Hunt Project. Jonathan and photographer Andrew Moore traveled to Barrow, Alaska to register the traditional whale hunting. Andrew had loads of work to do...the idea was to take a picture every 5 minutes during the hole trip...even when they where sleeping an automatic camera would flash every 5 minutes...after that everything was put together in a timeline and in a image mosaic. Check it out!!

I will soon put up some more work and info from my trip to Bahia...

Bahia..terra da felicidade..

Afternoon under a Castanhera at Ponta do Mutá beach.
My beatfull sister after an afternoon at Lagoa Azul.
Sunset at a coconut farm by Bomabasa Beach

Long time i dont show up..im sorry..It was for a very good reason!! Went up to Bahia for family holidays and after to spend New Years by the beach and do some work for Cool Cat Travel. We stayed in Barra Grande a small village located in the Maráu Penninsula. Its an amazing area where you can find both fresh and salt water and a strip of clear white sand an coconut trees. I wont say a lot by now im just posting to say im back...i have loads of material to edit and a blog to run for cool cat...so i will soon but up some more photos and try to tell you a bit about the region and its culture...and as soon as the cool cat travel blog is up i will let you know to.

Hope you had amazing holidays like i did...and i wish you all a very good 2008!!