Photo of the Month (October 2025 Edition): Backyard Shapes
Photo of the Month (October 2025 Edition): Backyard Shapes After a few months of field campaign, working travel, and a very brief rest, September turned out to be exhausting and full. My gear stayed packed away until the very last moment, waiting for some random opportunity that never came. In the final rays of […]
Exhibition: Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Exhibition: Wildlife Photographer of the Year In the same week that the world discovered the best wildlife photographs of 2025, according to the Natural History Museum in London, I visited the exhibition of the previous year’s edition at the Catavento Museum in São Paulo. The competition Wildlife Photographer of the Year is the longest-running […]
Photo of the Month (September 2025 edition): Reconnecting
Photo of the Month (September 2025 edition): Reconnecting It’s been almost half a year since I uninstalled the Instagram app, and only very rarely do I log onto the site from my computer to check messages. In fact, some things can only be seen clearly when you step away. And by stepping away from […]
Florence’s Brazil: photographic reinterpretations from the Tietê to the Amazon on the bicentennial of the Langsdorff Expedition
Florence’s Brazil: photographic reinterpretations from the Tietê to the Amazon on the bicentennial of the Langsdorff Expedition Exactly two hundred years ago, on September 3rd, 1825, a smack departed from Rio de Janeiro carrying the main members of what would later be recognized as one of the most important scientific expeditions into the Brazilian […]
Photo of the Month (August 2025 edition): Iguana iguana
Photo of the Month (August 2025 Edition): Iguana iguana Between the end of June and the beginning of July, I had the great opportunity to participate in another international congress. Last year I was able to travel to New Zealand, and this time I headed to Mexico. More precisely, I spent a few days […]
World Press Photo 2025 Exhibition
World Press Photo 2025 Exhibition The most prestigious photojournalism contest today is, without a doubt, the World Press Photo. Aimed at professional photojournalists, it annually recognizes the leading visual narratives of the moment and iconic individual photographs widely circulated in recent history. On display until September 28 in São Paulo and October 5 […]
Photo of the Month (July 2025 Edition): Blue Tapajós
Photo of the Month (July 2025 Edition): Blue Tapajós The grandeur and vibrant colors of the Tapajós River, which amazed me 14 years ago, continue to amaze me still. As I wrote before, last month I had a few afternoons to contemplate the beauty and calm of the Tapajós’s blue waters during a fieldwork […]
The missed moment #6: Popocatepetl
The missed moment #6: Popocatepetl Photographing an active volcano has been at the top of my personal bucket list for a while now. When I lived in Europe, I extensively searched for active volcanoes, both in Iceland and Italy, all to no avail. I even earned the nickname “volcano extinguisher” because I always arrived […]
Photo of the Month (June 2025 Edition): Amazonia in details
Photo of the Month (June 2025 Edition): Amazonia in details With each expedition, the small details of the forest draw me in more and more. The light that filters through the dense vegetation highlights the colors and textures of what lives hidden beneath the canopy of the largest and most vibrant tropical rainforest in the […]
A Thousand Words: The Power of Black and White
Thousand words: The Power of Black and White In May 1907, the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff saw a black and white reproduction of a painting that inspired him to compose a great symphonic poem, which he completed two years later. Rachmaninoff, however, was neither the first nor the last artist influenced by this painting, […]