Thiago Schiavetti Jardim

I am a Brazilian experimental photographer and visual designer based in São Paulo.

My photographic work explores memory, absence, architecture, and the emotional residue left in places marked by time, silence, and historical rupture. Through the project Void Fraction, I investigate spaces where human presence has disappeared or become fragmented — abandoned structures, memorial landscapes, ruins, restricted zones, and environments shaped by trauma, decay, or disappearance.

Rather than treating photography as documentation alone, I approach it as a way to study what remains: traces, surfaces, shadows, empty rooms, broken geometry, and the quiet tension between beauty and discomfort.

My visual language is influenced by design, cinema, brutalist architecture, post-industrial landscapes, and historical memory. I am especially interested in images that feel suspended between evidence and dream — photographs that do not explain everything, but invite the viewer to stay with the silence.

My practice as a photographer developed in parallel with a professional career in visual design, UI design, and design systems — disciplines that deeply inform how I approach framing, negative space, rhythm, and the emotional weight of empty environments.

Rather than following a formal academic path in photography, I built my visual language through fifteen years of sustained field research across Europe, independent study, and a rigorous engagement with the history and theory of documentary and conceptual photography. This ongoing process of self-directed inquiry is inseparable from the work itself.

I am currently preparing to formalize this research within a graduate academic program, developing a theoretical framework around memory, absence, and the photographic trace in historically traumatic sites.

My work has not yet entered the formal exhibition circuit. This is a deliberate condition of a project still in active development: the core body of work — including an unpublished series of over 300 photographs made at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2025–2026 — is currently in the final stages of editing and preparation for presentation.

Institutional dialogue around exhibition and publication is underway. The work is being positioned for release across gallery, academic, and editorial contexts simultaneously.