During High School, I completed a course in Mechanics and started working at 16 in electrical maintenance at a pen factory. At 17, I started working at a company that produced equipment used in oil excavation. I worked for this company and studied Engineering until 20, when I decided to put everything on hold in order to pursue my dream of being an airplane pilot. After two years of theory and practical study, I was forced to quit due to financial limitations. Photography had already been a large part of my life, and after two attempts at other professions, I enrolled in a course in order to finally start my education as a photographer as I had until that point been self-taught. I spent sometime freelancing on publicity until I found my calling in photojournalism. I was hired as a full-time photographer at O Globo Newspaper (part of the largest media group in Brazil) and shot for various different newspaper sections while I was slowly moving from news stories to more focused documentary photography. In 2005 I co-founded EVE Photographers along with five other women photographers. EVE’s work has been screened, exhibited or published in Brazil, Cambodia, China, France, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Spain, Ukraine and the USA. I had an amazing experience as jury member of the Photo Contests Images to Stop Tuberculosis (2009, 2010 and 2011), Estação Imagem Mora, in Portugal (2011) and World Press Photo (2010 and 2011). I am now an independent photographer based in Rio de Janeiro traveling all over Brazil and my goal is to concentrate my work on examining Brazilian social inequality.
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