Sugar Cane Etanol Industry

João Baptista, worker at Usina Vale do Rosário, Orlándia, São Paulo.

These week i went to Riberão Preto region to take some more shoots for Matel.doc documentary project. We went to register Usina Vale do Rosário, the second biggest etanol and sugar industry in Brasil.

Pieter Hugo: Interview for The Guardian

I really like south african photographer Pieter Hugo's work, specially his last series The Hyena & Other Men that was published in a book by Prestel Publishing. The book was one of does fill cases of photobooks that disapere from the book stores...it's already in it's 3rd edition.

I found these very interesting article and interview about his work, by Sean O'Hagan at guardian.co.uk arts section:

"My abiding image of the photographer Pieter Hugo comes from the Arles Photography Festival which finished last week. It was around two in the morning and the hotel bar had just shut but Hugo was in full flow, holding forth - intense, animated, provocative - about the imminent death of photography.

'It's over, it's finished,' he declared, gesticulating with his beer bottle. 'If you really want to know about anything - a war, a place, a person - you go read a book, right? You don't look at a photograph. It's just a moment, a glimpse. It's just a bloody photograph'."

Read the article
and visit his website for more.

Collaboration with MSF France.

Christine Dufour, responsable for MSF France (Doctors Without Borders) photography, invited me to collaborate with there new postcard collection for found raising. The collective Tendence Floue and photographers from Agency Vu are also part of the project.Im honered and pleased for being able to help.

Friday at the docks.

Frinday i went to Santos to shoot the docks. The port of Santos is the biggest in Brasil, friday there where 40 ships dealing with about 400.000 tons of products just that day. It was first oppened in 1892 specialy to deal with brazilian coffe and today its responsable for 30% of the countrys exports.
The images are part of an longterm project on Biofuels and Brazilian Agribusiness.

Exhibition starting today

Starts today an Exhibition from Instituto Paradigma's picture archive. The images cover the actions of the NGO towards social inclusion of Handicap people. I will be exhibiting together with images from Arthur Calasans.

The exhibition will be up from july 14th to july 29th, in the main hall of São Paulo's Prefecture.

Mariana Aydar for Folha de São Paulo

Last sunday, i went to Paranapiacaba to take portraits of Mariana Aydar for todays Guia da Folha (Folha de São Paulo). Mariana is one of the new voices of brazilian music.
Tomorrow she will be playing at Paranapiacaba Winter Festival and latter these month she will travel for a tour in France, playing also at the New Morning in Paris.
Check out her website and myspace, im sure you will chill with her music.

Nuestra Mirada

While reading Garapa's (Multimidia Collective) blog, i found these very interesting comunity for Iberoamerican photojournalists.
Nuestra Mirada is an online community like Ligthstalkers, built to help us exchange contacts, work, experiences and to find ways to put work out there. So if you are a "Latino" you should join it.

Morning visitor.

These morning i had a special visitor flying in my livingroom. A great start for a wonderfull day....

Pix Channel

Last week i found out about these amazing colletction of interviews. There's people like Ralph Gibson, Elliott Erwitt, Eddie Adams, Arnold Newman, Duane Michals and Mary Ellen Mark talking about there work, inspirations, the market and what makes them "click".

Check it out: Pix Channel