Photo of the Month (June 2024 Edition): Golden hour
Photo of the Month (June 2024 Edition): Golden hour Writing about the sunset is as difficult as photographing it. It’s so common, routine, banal. So certain to happen that lenses point the other way. They prefer the golden hour’s colour, the soft light, the balanced contrasts. It’s so ephemeral, monochromatic, and punctual that […]
In memory of Natalie Gillis
In memory of Natalie Gillis Writing this post is a strange decision to me. I didn’t have the opportunity to meet Natalie, I never texted her on social media but her passing away last week kind of impressed me as their Arctic and Antarctic photos impressed me from the first sight. Natalie Gillis […]
Photo of the Month (May 2024 Edition): Amazonian Niceties
Photo of the Month (May 2024 Edition): Amazonian niceties The world’s largest rainforest hosts the world’s most extensive and voluminous river, which originates in the world’s longest mountain range, featuring some of the globe’s highest peaks. The Amazon is immense, and if it were a country, the Amazon River basin (>7.05 million km²) would […]
Exhibition “50 years of the Carnation Revolution” by Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Wanick
Exhibition “50 years of the Carnation Revolution” by Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Wanick In February this year, upon turning 80, Sebastião Salgado told The Guardian that he would be retiring from fieldwork to dedicate himself to his monumental collection of photographs. Less than three months later, Sebastião and Lélia Wanick launched the exhibition “50 […]
Photo of the Month (April 2024 Edition): Eretmochelys imbricata
Photo of the Month (April 2024 Edition): Eretmochelys imbricata About 8 years ago, during my first visit to Ilhabela, on the São Paulo coast, I envisioned a photograph that I still haven’t been able to capture. Snorkeling one late afternoon at Portinho Beach, I saw a turtle emerging from the water to breathe, […]
The missed moment #2 – Brazil Nut Tree in the Moonlight
The missed moment #2 – Brazil Nut Tree in the Moonlight Among the approximately 16 thousand species of trees in the Amazon rainforest, the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) is one of the most iconic and long-lived, often surpassing 500 years of age. Its towering stature, reaching up to 50 meters in height, and […]
Photo of the Month (February 2024) March Edition: Exploring New Horizons
Photo of the Month (February / March 2024 Edition): Exploring New Horizons “Drone photography,” much like “mobile photography,” is a peculiar concept, as it involves photographs taken by cameras on devices adapted for various purposes. In this case, the drone is merely a vehicle that may or may not carry a camera. This unmanned […]
Exhibition “Água Pantanal Fogo”: The two faces of a threatened floodplain
Exhibition “Water Pantanal Fire”: The two faces of a threatened plain In the spring of 2020, when the waters should have begun to inundate the largest and most biodiverse floodplain on the Planet, what was seen was exactly the opposite. The conjunction of two factors, of very different natures, caused instead of waters, […]
Photo of the month (January 2024): Change
Photo of the month (January 2024): Change The quote “new year, new life” never made sense to me before the transition from 2023 to 2024. Literally, I left a 3-year living in Europe on Dec 31st. to land back in South America on Jan. 1st 2024, while seeing the firework shows over São Paulo […]
The missed moment #1 – Ubatuba
The missed moment #1 – Ubatuba (This post was originally published on May 3rd 2023 in Portuguese in an earlier version of the blog) In 1957, Henri Cartier-Bresson told the Washington Post: “There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or […]