BIO
My work sits at the intersection of commercial, documentary, and fine art photography—exploring human stories and the environments that shape them.
My background in long-term photographic projects informs my approach to sports and lifestyle work, focusing on athletes—whether at work or at play—and on the spaces where sport and everyday life meet. I collaborate with brands and agencies seeking authentic, narrative-driven images rooted in real environments.
Available for commercial, editorial, and branded projects worldwide.
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When I was 19, I landed an internship or more accurately, became the assistant to the assistant at Valor Econômico, a newly launched financial newspaper in São Paulo, Brazil. My days were filled with fetching coffee, picking up snacks from the cafeteria for the senior staff, running upstairs to the darkroom to deliver and retrieve slides, scanning images, answering the ever-ringing phones, and organizing thousands of negatives and slides in the archives. I even got pranked a few times. That year and a half in the newsroom was, without question, the best education I could have hoped for.
Eventually, I was offered a staff photographer position, focusing mainly on portraiture. Not long after, I left for Mozambique — my first experience working solo and also the first time I tried to tell a story of my own through images. As it often goes, the first project didn’t quite work out. Neither did the second, already back in Brazil.
It was on the third attempt — just a 20 minute car ride from my mother’s apartment in São Paulo — that I shot my first book: "In a Window of Prestes Maia 911 Building", the result of a four-year journey.
Having spent my childhood in São Paulo and my teenage years in New York, I’ve long been fascinated by the ways we inhabit our cities and how and why we live as we do. For the past 23 years, photography has been the language through which I’ve explored social and political questions that emerge from these relationships between people and the spaces we occupy.
Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a diverse group of commercial clients, brands, agencies, galleries, publishers and editors, each one shaping my path in meaningful ways.
Today, I live in Paris with my partner and our French bulldog, Pipoca and am currently represented by Galeria Lume in São Paulo and Galeria da Gávea in Rio de Janeiro.