Location: I’m based in Brazil, staying mainly between Brasília and São Paulo.
Education: BA in communications and advertising, Instituto de Educação Superior de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil; MFA in visual art, Faculdade de Tecnologia Senac-DF, Brasília, Brazil; some post-graduate education in studio and advertising photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York.
Career path: I had been working as a creative art director and photographer since 2009, but in 2015, I realized I was trapped in an environment that wouldn’t let me do photography the way I wanted. Fellow Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado started at the age of 30, and that encouraged me to start doing what my heart wanted. So I took a sabbatical year, left my old clients and went back to the things that inspired me to be a photographer in the first place.