BIO
Artistic curriculum
Books
2023 Mer: 100 photos pour la libertè de la presse – Reporters Sans Frontières, Paris (France)
- Collection of 100 photos from 69 photographers including Sebastião Salgado, Ansel Adams, Paul Nicklen, Steve McCurry, Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. All the funds are to press freedom projcts worldwide.
2022 Ocean Photographer of the Year Table Book – Oceanographic Magazine, London (UK)
- More than 100 images from the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022´s finalists feature in this beautiful, limited-edition hardback book. All the funds are dedicated to Ocean conservation projects.
Selected group exhibitions
2024 IV Brazilian Nature Photographic Art Biennal, Ribeirão Preto (Brasil)
2024 Xposure 2024 (United Arab Emirates)
2023 77th Bristol International Salon of Photography, Bristol (UK)
2023 Museo Pinacoteca San Francesco, Città di San Marino (San Marino)
2023 5th International Exhibition of Photography, Lisboa (Portugal)
2023 XXIII Bienal de arte fotográfica brasileira em cores, Salvador (Brasil)
2022 10º Salão Nacional de Arte Fotográfica, Pinacoteca Municipal, São Caetano do Sul (Brasil)
2022 Agroecologia, trabalho, direito de existir: a luta das famílias do Acampamento Marielle Vive!, Espaço Estação Cultura, Campinas (Brasil)
2021 ArtLab Photo, São Paulo (Brasil)
Photo Stories
2024 the Iberian lynx´s silent spring – Current Conservation (printed – issue 18.1)
2024 O Fim da História – FotoDoc (online)
2023 Cradle of the waters – Revolve Magazine (Brussels)
2023 Como se fosse um prefácio – FotoDoc Festival (online)
2021 Mountains from Rio de Janeiro – Kenko Filters assignment (online)
2021 Scenes from the Basque coast – Tokina Lenses assignment (online)
2020 Festa da Partilha – MST (online)
Photo Features
2024 Cleaning up joint effort – Sea Shepherd (Brazil)
2023 Best February Photos – National Geographic (Italy)
2022 Hall of Fame – Landscape Photography Magazine n. 140 (UK)
2020 Historic Photographer of the Year – History Hit (UK)
2019 Sua Foto (Your Shot) – National Geographic (Brasil)
Selected awards
2024 Honorable mention Wildlife Photography – 3rd Black and White Photo Awards, Paris (France)
2024 First place in the themmatic category “Rubbish in the Ocean” – Projeto Budiões (Brazil)
2024 Top 5% Landscape Photographer (both Daytime and Astrophotography categories) – 9th 35 Awards (Russia)
2023 Honorable mention Street Night Shot – Paris International Street Photography Awards (PISPA), Paris (France)
2023 Premio Turismo e Svago (Best Tourism and Travel Photo) – 32° Concorso Fotografico Internazionale della Repubblica di San Marino, Città di San Marino (San Marino)
2023 Diploma IS – Exhibition “ICE SALON 2023’’, Reykjavik (Iceland)
2023 Nordic Society of Photography Ribbon – 13th Arctic Exhibition of Photographic Art, Bodø (Norway)
2022 Best Biodiversity Photo – Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Photo Contest, Cartagena (Colombia)
2022 Human Connection award finalist – Ocean Photographer of the Year, London (UK)
2022 Finalist – Grande Premio Fotografe 2022, São Paulo (Brasil)
2021 Finalist – Olhares além da fronteira – PUC/MG (Brasil/Guiné-Bissau)
2021 Finalist – Soluciones Naturales que Inspiran – Red Latinoamericana de Cooperación Técnica en Parques Nacionales, otras Áreas Protegidas, Flora y Fauna Silvestres (RedParques)
2020 Honorable Mention – Brasília Photo Show, Brasília (Brasil)
Community
2024 – present The NeverRest Project
2024 – present Brazilian Confederation of Photography (CONFOTO)
2023 – 2023 Member of the International Jury team for Wiki Loves Earth 2023 – Human Rights and Environment nomination
2023 – present AEFONA/Spanish Association of Nature Photographers (Spain)
2022 – present Photoclub ABCclick (Brazil)
2021 – 2023 Colectivo SoloFoto (Spain)
2020 – 2020 Guest curator of the Everyday Everywhere Project
2019 – present Tokina lenses ambassador
Education
2023 Art Models for the Earth System – Short term course, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (Spain) – 16h
2023 Drone for conservation, Sea Shepherd Brasil (online) – 3h
2022 Visual narratives and photobooks, Editora Origem – 42h
2021 Environmental photography, SESC São Paulo – 8h
2021 Curadoria em foco, Imagem Brasil gallery, online – 30h
2019 Nature photography workshop with Araquém Alcântara, Serra da Canastra (MG/Brasil) – 40h
Critics
24/12/2023 Paris International Street Photography Awards 2023 photo contest
- These awards show that many of the members of our jury have found your work of high quality and encourage you to keep working for progress, especially in the Editing step.
01/12/2022 David Doubilet, National Geographic Photographer, on my “Forza” photograph
- This is one of the best Nazaré images I´ve ever seen because no one is really surfing here, its just watching. This is the most incredibly... I can´t take my eyes of this [...]
29/11/2022 LensCulture Review on the Tierras Yermas project
- [...] The monochrome format, as you have treated it, suggests a poetic interpretation of the land you investigate, a kind of memorialization like Ansel Adams once did for Yosemite national park. It is not that you present these mountains as monuments but the distinct gestures and textures create a sense of importance and emergency about the future of this place. [...]
25/10/2022 Expansion.com, La Fuerza del Mar (Fuera de Serie)
- Se aprecia como en pocas ocasiones en esta imagen donde las figuras humanas quedan empequeñecidas por el poder del océano. [...]