Who doesn’t like a good challenge? Specially when you’re given freedom to shoot the way you want to. That’s how the photos bellow came to be.
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This is a somewhat belated post, considering these photos were done earlier this Summer, when I was looking for someone for the conceptual shootings I’ve posted before (this one and this one).
Before meeting her in person, I was very curious about Eva because I knew she was more than a model…
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Once again, I went back to my younger years and to one of my favorite songs by The Sisters of Mercy, from the early 90’s.
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it’s one of my favorite songs by The Cure. So much so, that I’ve had it my notebook for several years and only now did I find a satisfying way of turning it into pictures. Curious fact about this song, is that I can “see” different things when listening to it. Which means, I will probably get back to it in the future
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Music has been one of my main influences, since I first picked a camera. But since photography became my profession, some of my early influences, like music and movies, seem to have less and less space in my creative process. The photos in this post are my attempt of bringing those influences back into my photography.
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It’s been a while since I had been shooting on a backstage, but when I got the chance to witness Matilde Breyner’s transformation into Mick Jagger for the Portuguese tv show “A Tua Cara Não Me É Estranha”, I couldn’t resist.
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Matilde Reymão isn’t exactly a surprise for me. I met her in 2016 when she was still a new face and with little experience. But from that first impression, I immediately got that “this girl has got something” feeling, you know?
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I met Mariana Montes in 2013, when she was starting out as a model… actually, on the day we shot the photos bellow, she told me that she remembers that 2013 shoot as one of her first serious photo shoots…
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I think Inês was actually the first actress I shot… hope I’m not getting this wrong… anyway, the fact is, our paths have crossed more than once in different stages of our careers…
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I can’t get enough of saying how important proactivity is on a model. But let me detail it a little more and give you a very practical example…
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One of the biggest challenges with shooting actresses is Time. They always seem to be running from one place to the other, in between filming, or rehearsals or some of their daily routine responsibilities (yes, they are humans and they also have personal responsibilities they have to attend to).
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I was supposed to have met Maria, back in August, when I went to Helsinki. But at the time, she was out of town, so, it didn’t happen. Fortunately, her modelling life, brought her to Lisbon and we finally got the chance to meet in person…
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