On the road!!

I left very early in the morning for a week on the road. Will be working with Matel.DOC producing stills for a documentary on Biofuels in Brazil.We will be in Mato Grosso doing some interviews, and capturing images of the Soya fields, biofuels factorys, the cities and some aerials of the deforestation frontier in the Amazon....Lets see if i find some time to post some images for you...if not see you next week!!
Cheers!!

Pinhole with style.

With the next pinhole day comming up (April 27th) Corbis decided to launch READYMECH CAMERS, a collection of pinhole cameras you can download and build at home. They used images from there bank to help with the design. I will try one and maybe post the result here.

Check the pinhole day official website for events happening close to you:Pinhole Day

And get your Corbis camera here: READYMECH CAMERAS

Sunday working by the beach.

Me and good friend Arthur Calasans (see his blog here) went to Santos to cover a water sports competition.




We also went to meet with Pauê to plan some photoshoots for his book...i took the opportunity to do a portrait after some good beers and seefood. Pauê is a great guy to have a beer with, he is full of ideas and projects.
Paulo Eduardo (his real name) lost part of both his legs in the train tracks of Santos (his home town) and found that sports would help bring back his motivation...he is a thriatlete and surfer... and is currently training for the Iron Man.

Imaging Famine

David Campbell, DJ Clark, Kate Manzo and other contributors created a project named Imaging Famine that brings great light to the discussion of ethics and the role of photographs produced in conflit zones. The project is a research on how famine have been represented in the media, from the nineteenth century to today. Its aim is to provoke a debate about the political effect of such photographs on our understanding of the world. The project website presents a review of images from Ethiopia published in the press during the 80s, a collection of images from contemporary Africa that are normally not published in the media, great papers, links and articles on the subject.

You should check it out before picking up your camera: Imaging Famine

Bernd Kleinheisterkan

I was reading J.M Colberg's blog Conscientious these morning where i found an old post about Bernd Kleinheisterkam's work. Seeing his photos is easy to see where he comes from and what are his influences(his name helps also). But what called my attention is that he lived in São Paulo (where he studied at USP Universidade de São Paulo) and produced a very different body of work about my country...
Check his Brasil work:
Bernd Kleinheisterkam-Brasil

Pulitzer Winners

The Pulitzer Prize winners where announced:

The Washington Post won in six different categorys and the New York Times got two prizes.
In photography, Adrees Latif/Reuters won Breanking News Photography for his photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar. In the Feature Photography category Preston Gannaway/Concord Monitor, for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent's terminal illness.

Check out the Prize website to see the work:
The Pulitzer Prize

A conversation with Miguel Rio Branco

Magnum just launched a new series of Interviews on the agency blog. The first one is a conversation between Jorg M. Colberg, founder and Editor of fine art photography blog Conscientious, and Miguel Rio Branco. Miguel is one of my favorite photographers...he has a lot to share:
Interview with Miguel Rio Branco

Editors on the future of the printed page

We all wonder what will be the future of the printed page... how and where will our photos be published.Here is some good reading about the subject:

The New York Observer

Wired Magazine