Portrait Gallery

David, 8 years old. Ilha Bela, São Paulo, Brazil.

I just published a new Portrait gallery on my website.

Check it out:website

PX3- Prix de la Photographie, Paris

PX3- Prix de la Photographie Paris, just realesed the winners for 2008 Human Condition Prize. My work from Fisherman Villages in Brazil was selected, recieving Honorable Mention.

Check out the link:
PX3 Honorable Mention

As cidades invisíveis.

"Grande Khan disse:
- É tudo inútil, se o último porto só pode ser a cidade infernal, que está lá no fundo e que nos suga num vórtice cada vez mais estreito.

E Marco Polo respondeu:
- O inferno dos vivos não é algo que séra; se existe, é aquele que já está aqui, o inferno no qual vivemos todos os dias, que formamos juntos. Existem duas maneiras de não sofrer. A primeira é fácil para a maioria das pessoas: aceitar o inferno e tornar-se parte deste até o ponto de deixar de percebe-lo. A segunda é arriscada e exige atenção e aprendizagem contínuas: tentar saber reconhecer quem e que, no meio do inferno, não é inferno, e preservá-lo, e abrir espaço."

Trecho de "As Cidades Invísiveis" - Italo Calvino.

A fotografia me ajuda a seguir o segundo caminho.....

Weekend by the beach

These weekend I went traveling with a couple of very good friends...was great fun, refreshing..... I love São Paulo but is always good to leave for a few days. We had the company of Isabelinha, Eduardo and Maria 5 years old daughter...she makes the trip 10 times as fun.

É tudo verdade | I'ts all true.

The 13th edition of the Documentary Film Festival " É tudo verdade | It's all true" opens today here in São Paulo. After it will travel to Rio, Bauru, Caxias, Recife and Brasília. These year there's a special section called, International Retrospective that will pass "10 Documentaries that changed the world" curetted by Mark Cousins from the British Film Institute (London).

Check the website:
É tudo verdade | It's all true

JR 28mm in Africa.

I've talked about French photographer JR already in my blog. I just found out he launched a new series from his 28mm long term project...after photographing Palestinians an Israelis he moved on to Africa. These time he (together with MSF-France) photographed women that are subjected to sexual violence, war, HIV and tuberculoses. It's refreshing to see someone deal with these hard subjects in a different way.

Check out the project webpage:
Women are Heroes
Go to his Daily Motion page and see the project video and all his interventions:
Daily Motion Creation Video

Closed for repair!!

I'm shutting down the blog for a few days….I have to do some serious work on my website and organize archives for an image bank. I will post again Monday…if things go well.

Cheers!!!

Interview with Trent Park

Magnum Photographer Trent Park is one of my favourite photographers of all!! I’m really inspired by his work..Dream Life and Minutes to Midnight especially. His pictures have amazing light and life in to than...you can never settle on a simple direct reading, every time a see his images they change. I was just reading an interview he gave to Photographer UR online Magazine.

Check the links for:
The Interview
His work

FOTO 8 Article

"Flicking through the 81,000 images originally submitted a sense of deja vu is inevitable. Again and again similar images are repeated, with only the actors and settings changing. Grieving mothers, charred human remains, sun sets, women giving birth, children playing with toy guns, cock fights, bull fights, Havana street scenes, reflections in puddles, reflections in windows, football posts in unlikely locations, swaddled babies, portraits taken through mosquito nets, needles in junkies’ arms, derelict toilets, Palestinian boys throwing stones, contorted Chinese gymnasts, Karl Lagerfeld, models preparing for fashion shows backstage, painted faces, bodies covered in mud, monks smoking cigarettes, pigeons silhouetted against the sky, Indian Sardus, children leaping into rivers, pigs being slaughtered."

These paragraph is part of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's article about how World Press Picture of The Year was selected. They where part of 2007 jury and are contributors to Foto 8 Magazine. The article is a "must read"!!!

Follow the link and enjoy:
"Unconcerned but not Indifferent"

The Rolling Exhibition

My good friend Arthur Calasans, photographer from Instituto Paradigma, just sent me a very interesting link. Kevin Michael Connolly was born without his legs...he is a skateboarder and professional skier and now a photographer to. He goes down streets around the world on his skateboard taking street shots and portraits...his photos form what he called The Rolling Exhibition. What amazed me while seeing his pictures was the reaction of the people being photographed and the position we as viewers are put in to..... A great work on our reactions and relationship towards difference.

Check it out:
The Rolling Exhibition

Pub skeletons.

Last year, a new law brought all the publicity outdoors down here in São Paulo. The idea was to reduce visual pollution. I lost the transition period (wasn’t living here by that time) so when i came back i discovered a new city..to my eyes it looked bigger...less oppressive...some historical buildings and small details are now finally visible!! I wont discuss here how the law was put in practice, for sure lots of people lost there jobs from night to day. The strange is that lots of the outdoor structures are still up..maybe waiting that one day the advertising industry will be able to bring them back to life...imagine the amount of money that they use to move in a city as big as São Paulo. Let's hope they come down also.

Final format.

The process off image making includes the final presentation. A bunch of isolated pictures on a HD or a bunch of negatives in a box are just unfinished work. Its also clear that a great image badly printed, in the wrong canvas, the wrong paper, the wrong wall, a bad digital support...etc...is not as great as it could be.
I've been fighting for months to find a way to present these series. And now, under the deadline pressure for Voies Off festival and a gallery submission i have the feeling i finally found it. These is just a small sample...i see it big like 2 meters in the long side... it asks you to come close and see the people. That’s what i feel...but i wouldn’t post these if i didn't want a second opinion...so what do you thing?

4 years in 3 minutes

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Web film maker Ahree Lee took photos of her self every day during 4 years to put together these stop-motion video. Ahree's film was a nominee for the WEBBY Awards 2007.

American Vagabonds

I found these work at Social Daily News. Great work...but the crazy thing is that i coulden't find out who the photographer is...maybe a vagabond.

Check it out: The Life of American Vagabonds

New project on the run

After a few weeks just getting shit together...by that i mean sending CV's, work to festivals, awards and organizing archives...i finally went out to shoot again. Feels great!!
So, it's been a long time i wanted to walk around Elevado Costa e Silva (Minhocão) on a Sunday afternoon. The huge bridge that crosses the center of São Paulo closes on sundays for recriational use. Im still in the brain storm porsion of the project...just going there, walking and shooting what i feel like shooting. Lets see where these will go!