Fotografia

Photographing a stage is complex because it's not just about being prepared for the moment of the show; it's about anticipating the moment and thinking about the post-show phase, that is, the editing [processing].

Almost 7 years later, I'm here to talk about this very important moment in my life, a recognition that came at a time when my work was in a really good place!

Hi! Just dropping by to share that my work has been selected to compete for the FotoDoc 2026 Award in two categories: Portfolio with the Maracatu series, and Featured Photo with the photo Veste Branco.

In March 2019, I was holding the Collective Exhibition Resistência Vagalume, with the series “Quanzos Mãos Fazem um Maracatu?”, at the Murillo La Greca Museum, in Recife, when the results of the call for the Floripa na Foto Festival came out, announcing those selected for the exhibition “Vestiremos as Cores que Quisermos”.

Going to a show that we like is always connecting with those who sing, who seem to feel the same way as those who wrote. When I'm on stage, it's as if that scene is happening in slow motion, with countless colored lights just for me. So I dive into the vibration of the musicians, the music, myself, what I feel, what I see, and I pay attention, until a point where I click and from there my eye, my head, my body and my camera enter into another plan that I see everything that happens before me, like magic.

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;

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.

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.