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It's been a long while since I've been wanting to have a selection of my personal work available in prints, so that you could have a little bit of my vision in your home or office.
A few days ago i was talking with a friend and the "Musings" series came up. She told me she loves my approach but she had a remark to make: "when i look at the photos, i don't see myself in them". She was referring to the fact that…
I usually have "2 stop-and-reflect" moments per year. 2020 brought me more of those moments, a lot more, as i'm sure it must have brought for most of you.
I think it was about time to make a proper update on this blog…
It’s funny how our most used sense - sight - is also the most misleading one.
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.
I’ve made stories about it on IG and I even recorded a podcast (in Portuguese) with three little stories about my days around Northern Ireland… but I guess this post was missing. I mean, why should the photos be sitting on my hard drive only?
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.
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
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.
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.
While getting ready to say goodbye to 2018 and hello (and welcome) to 2019, I think this season is a good time to look back to what I did and try to figure out where can I improve.
One of my goals with the “Musings” series, is to take this experience to as many women as possible. Therefore, repeating the women I shoot, isn’t exactly a priority, unless there’s something else or something different to be explored.
On the previous post I told you about one of my favourite things about Helsinki, but for those who are more interested about the landmarks that you can’t miss, this post is for you (scroll down for some photos or keep reading for more practical info).
This is a quite belated post... I’ve been wanting to write about my days in Helsinki, but I guess I came back with somewhat mixed feelings about it. I loved the city, but…
It’s funny, how outsiders experience Lisbon in such a passionated and intense way. D. is one of those people. She almost makes me feel ashamed of calling myself a natural Lisbon-born guy… I’ve met a lot people from other countries, but very few as passionated about Lisbon as D. And for this “Musings" set, it made total sense if we would get that vibe.
Editorials were one of the first things that first draw my attention to fashion photography but, has time went by, I slowly started to realize how things actually worked and that early attraction and fascination, evolved into a kind of love-hate relationship.
Although my goal with “Musings”, is to take this series/experience to as many people as possible, I also want to do it slowly, at my own pace, to avoid misrepresenting its essence. So, it’s not at all strange that sometimes there will be…
I always believed (and still do) that focus is important to achieve something. But at the same time, I’ve always struggled with that belief on the creative side. I mean, if you like to develop ideas and concepts, when one tries to expand the horizons of its own vision, how can you stay limited to one genre, or to one area or subject?
You can never go wrong with denim, right? I'm frequently asked "what should I take to a photoshoot?" well, bringing some denim pieces is like "mandatory".
Maybe this wasn’t exactly the day I launched the blog, because a blog requires some previous planning and doing before launching, but the first official post was done in April 2016. So, this makes April a kind of a double celebration month...
I met Margarida Coelho, in person, about a year ago. Since then, we had the chance to shoot more than once, but I would say that our shootings aren’t quite the typical photoshoots, because we usually get the results...
I met Miss R. through mutual friends and I think I can say we got along pretty well. I don’t exactly remember how did the “Musings” series came up, but I mentioned it and invited her to participate. From what I already knew about her at the time, I thought she would enjoy the experience. She wasn’t exactly sure about it, so she said she would think about it.
“Starve the ego, feed the soul” is a photo series I started in 2015, with the intent of putting into images, two concepts I relate to a lot: the need for contemplation and the “take a step back perspective”.
Today, when I opened Facebook, I had one of those “memories” reminders with the very first photo I shared of the “Musings” series, posted 3 years ago.
Changing brands or systems can always be a drag for photographers, that’s why most of us stick with a brand or eventually, if we are unsatisfied, we change everything...
It's been almost 2 years since I've posted on this blog... so, i guess it's time for a quick update.