About
Passionate about traveling since I can remember. I began my photographic journey in 2004. I started photographing natural landscapes, not only in my home country, Portugal, but also in other places like Iceland, the United States of America, or Canada.
On my first trip to Japan, I fell in love not just for the country, but also for the cultural differences between East and West, and I started introducing cities, their people, and their traditions as my photographic subjects.
Today my photographic activity is focused on traditional festivals, and traditional craftsmanship. My purpose is to document some of these traditions wherever I go, as well as the effort of the people who struggle to keep these traditions alive.
Lectures
- Exodus Aveiro Festival 2021: speaker in the national talents panel in Exodus Aveiro Festival: international festival of travel and adventure photography and videography
Published Work
- JRNY Magazine: full article (photographic essay)
- National Geographic: images for Visions of Earth feature in Portuguese edition of NG
- Oriente Magazine (Oriente Foundation): portfolio about traditional Japanese festivals
- GEO Saison: image for calendar Im Licht des Sudens
- BBC Online: image for an article about Japan
Exhibitions
- Land of Fire and Water: photographic exhibition, on the subject of Icelandic Landscapes (15 60×40 and 60×60 images, at Palavra de Viajante bookstore, Lisbon, Portugal);
- Japan, an Ephemeral Glimpse: images of the first trip to Japan, with fellow photographer and good friend Ruben Vicente (8 60×40 and 60×60 images, at Palavra de Viajante bookstore, Lisbon, Portugal);
- Roca Cape – Atlantic Frontier: landscape photographic exhibition with five other photographers on the subject of the Roca Cape (4 50×75 images at the Tourism Center and at the Sintra Boutique Hotel, Sintra, Portugal);
- 4 Looks over India: travel photography exhibition with three other photographers about our individual travels to India (4 70×47 images at Mercadores de Memórias shop in Azeitão, Portugal);
- #japan: instagram exhibition with Cláudia Batalha, covering the second trip to Japan in April / May 2014 (45 20×20 images at Palavra de Viajante bookstore, Lisbon, Portugal);
- I carry the Gods on my shoulders: solo photography exhibition about the Mikoshi porters of Japanese traditional festivals (19 60×40 images, at Espaço Exodus, Aveiro, Portugal).
