Engaging the Audience Between 19th of July 2022 and February 12, 2023, the Museum of Tomorrow (“Museu do Amanhã”) in São Paulo, Mauá, Brazil, received the exhibition “Amazônia” (“Amazon”) from Sebastião Salgado. Idealized by Lélia Wanick Salgado, it displayed 194 pictures taken by Salgado between 2013 and 2019 and is the result of the couple’s immersion in the region…

Mohammed and his grandson. When asked what was his most precious ‘belonging’ after fleeing from Iraq to Jordan, Mohammed said it was his grandson, born in the exile. When we discussed how he would like to be remembered and his picture taken, Mohammed asked to do it with the child on his lap. After photography…

Audiences and institutions Looking back to my edited pictures between 2012 and 2015 I clearly see that most of them abused of a stylistic effect common to that time: fading images to attempt a more vintage filmlike feeling. Probably my desire was to please the social media audience I had at the time as well…

Words and pictures No better photos captured the political tension and denounced the injustice in Brazil of fifty years ago than the historical black-and-white series made by the photojournalist Evandro Teixeira: “1968: A Passeata dos Cem Mil” [translation: The March of the 100 Thousand). The Portuguese text on the banner seen on the picture raised by some…

Interdisciplinary pratice *Picture 1: Bogotá, Colombia, January 2011 with a Sony HX1. *Picture 2: Beijing, China, December 2010 with a Sony HX1. *Picture 3: São Paulo, Brazil, July 2011 with a Sony HX1. Since I was a little kid, I was passionate for journalism and documentaries in general. That is definitely one of reasons why…

Practicing criticality At first glimpse I see these two images as war photojournalism portraits due their very specific contexts and time frames. They were taken in Afghanistan and display young girls coming from Taliban backgrounds. Considering their composition and aesthetic both have clear traces of western influence on how the subjects are arranged and the…

Reading photographs Back in 2010 a creative newspaper and magazine advertising campaign for the UN refugee agency has won a prestigious Clio award in New York. The images would show apocalyptical photographic images featuring the message: “Refugees want the same problems as you have.” In this one, an African woman stands by a wash tub…

An admirer of Sebastião Salgado One of the photographers I admire the most is Sebastião Salgado. Being a Brazilian like him I was always inspired by his practice. In the photographic method of Salgado, we rarely see posed photographs. Usually, people are displayed performing some kind of activity that quite often are registered in the…

Cycles of ilusions Photography as a means of artistic expression can be applied through so many different ways. A photographic ‘faux pas’ or what we would traditionally think of as a ‘mistake’ can contain so much meaning once we start being more critical and analytical. Sometimes a ‘happy accident’ can speak to us deeply and…