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I'm in the VHS era, where we lived in video stores to rent movies on the weekend and return them on Monday, and we did everything to avoid the late fee, since it was half price. He had a TV with a built-in VHS recorder, and he was always recording clips at Manchete. And since Paleozoic times, technology has allowed us to choose the movie or series we want, lying in bed or while working, traveling, having lunch... So I decided to write unpretentiously about what I think of some Netflix series and movies that I watched, and as I didn't even finish the first period of film school, I don't know if I need authorization for that … And in order not to start with this text, not to mention something to watch, I'm going to talk a little about it.

Well, this is a series that I worked on the most, from reviewing the material that was captured in 2015, to reading the portfolio, course, months of intense work of experimentation and collective discussions about the material, until it took shape, and the first work expo will be held in 2018.

The year 2015 was a moment that, without realizing it, I was very involved with the culture of Pernambuco, and in the first semester alone I had photographed three events that had Maracatu as their central theme.

In the State of Pernambuco, northeast Brazil, it is common to see Maracatus presentations and the reproduction of their images stamping the cities and the collective imaginary of Pernambuco;

The overflowing of the Una River with the high rainfall, left the city in a state of public calamity. A few months after that fateful period, the expedition with photographers and other artists arrived in the city of Palmares. Some of the staff set up an exhibition of Ricardo Peixoto in the public square, Diabolin put on circus performances and the renowned photojournalist Evandro Teixeira walked with the group of photographers.

This is the first text I talk about this series, and also the first series I made. And it's interesting to think about it, and review this place, because when I look back and think about how it started, it's at the same time looking at the beginning of my journey.

It is common to see groups of people playing capoeira in Olinda, whether in Alto da Sé or on the beach... but when I went to Barcelona, I didn't imagine seeing it, especially during the first walk to Iemanjá in the Catalan city. It was like being at home. I already had the Veste Branco project in progress, and I photographed the capoeira circles because they were part of that procession, which at times was stopped for some people from capoeira groups made up of Brazilians and Spaniards from the city. When I went back and looked at the images calmly, some were kind of abstract, the bodies looked amorphous, and I wanted to try more of this other way of seeing the body. Be it multiple, or deconstructed, cut, recreated. So I'd like to share some of these images, and their ramifications.

Fiz Faculdade de Fotografia em 2007, na Universidade de Caxias do Sul/RS. Se eu conhecia alguém naquela cidade? não. Conhecia alguém no Rio Grande do Sul? não. Conhecia alguém na região sul do país? não. Mas tinha o Orkut, e em uma comunidade especifica do curso, mandei mensagens pra alguns alunos e professores, pedindo informações, opniões sobre o curso e coisas assim.

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This pandemic came to challenge us in several ways, provoking various sensations, readapting our modus operandi, where we need to be isolated from each other, which brings the idea of a cocoon, we are changing ...

I decided to experiment in a very unpretentious way to draw on the tablet, I started doing it on top of copyrighted photographs - of projects that I have already published, without the pen and, after some tendonitis I decided to buy one and since then I have used a lot of my time making this one experience a practice.

Paraty em Foco is one of the largest photography festivals in the country and takes place annually in the city of Paraty in Rio de Janeiro. And I was very happy to be a Finalist in the Prize and be part of the exhibition at the festival in 2019.