Bio
| 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) where I currently work. I am a Rio de Janeiro-based photographer, shooting mostly for the newspaper’s Sunday magazine supplement. My personal work is concentrated on examining Brazilian social inequality, poverty and human rights violation. I am also a founder member of EVE Photographers. (Photo by Thelma Vidales). |
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