Most people view photography as something that brings us closer to things and reality. And, in fact, the industry and most people who use photography go to great technical lengths and efforts to make images produced by cameras always look as if they did so (or at most allow for a few normalized variations, as styles). But why insistently fight its nature? I would say that it is precisely in what it takes away, in what it differs, and how it draws us into diverse things and objects, into its own world of metaphor and visual experience, that lies its beauty and, personally for me as an author, its interest.

I am devoted mainly to developing visual projects and usually engage with portraits and documentary, but also branch out my activities to commercial photography assignments (advertising, portraiture, fashion and editorial).

Studied music, art history, visual culture studies, and obtained a MA in Design and Visual Culture, specializing in Photography Studies, from IADE, Lisbon.

I am, since 2008, an Epson Digigraphie certified author and printer.

Based in Lisbon, I can frequently be found travelling throughout all of Europe and Brazil.

Current interests lie in the relationships between image, medium and identity, as performance.

Selected events/publications

• Contemporary photography (collective), Gallery AFK, Lisbon, 4th – 20th October 2012
• XI Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial (Portugal) 2010
• XVII Sintra Annual Plastic Artists Meeting (Portugal) 2010
• Canon EOS Training 3rd Edition (workshops orientation and lectures) (Portugal) 2010
• II Sintra Photography Biennial (Portugal) 2009
• ANIF convention (National Association of the Photography Industry, Portugal), Speaker (studio photography seminar) 2008
• Pro-digital – 3rd International Salon of Printing, Imaging and Digital Communication, trade fair, FIL (Lisbon, Portugal), Speaker (photography post-production seminar) 2008
• Papies Awards 2008 (Portugal), honourable mention in the photography category
• Papies Awards 2007 (Portugal), won both prizes awarded by the jury in the photography category
• “Caminhos de Minas” (“Minas” project catalogue), 2007
• “Técnicas de Fotografia Digital” (digital photography technique single issue magazine), Epson Portugal / Editorial Grupo V, 2005
• Editor-in-chief, “Super Foto” magazine, Portugal, and took part in EISA – European Imaging and Sound Association’s photography panel, 2005