"Tropical Canopy II (Bahia Ballad): Double Exposure on Film." Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

I am a Brazilian photographer based in Rio de Janeiro, with over 20 years of experience working across documentary photography, portraiture, and visual narratives centered on family, childhood, birth, and human relationships. My photography is guided by experimentation. I explore unconventional cameras and methods, including pinhole photography, alternative printing processes, and interventions on the printed photograph or its negative. I create images not only to preserve memories, but also out of a deep fascination with photography itself — its materiality, its time, and its craftsmanship. Since 2021, I have been dedicated to landscape photography and, more recently, I have reconnected with analog processes. I returned to photographing intuitively, without previews, using vintage cameras and expired film, creating multiple exposures and embracing unpredictability. What moves me are landscapes — primarily those of Rio de Janeiro — as well as other places that are part of my personal history, such as Bahia. My medium is a living material: it ages, transforms, and remains beautiful. Like the landscape itself, it is constantly changing, moment by moment.