Category: Photography

[new topographics of são paulo state, brasil]

landscape photography, New topographics, Photography, Uncategorized

I understand that these photos show the tremendous strength that the sugar and alcohol (ethanol) industry has in Brazil, especially in the interior of the state of São Paulo.


But – it seems to me that there is always a but or more than one – it is a type of industrial activity that, although it has improved a lot in terms of negative environmental impact in recent decades, still causes environmental impacts and many of them are still unknown and difficult to be properly evaluated.


But, in life, we often look at certain issues from the lyrical side and I want to focus my attention on this aspect of what I do and see these photos that I take, even though I can’t get rid of the memory of the aforementioned social and environmental impacts.

>>>country home>>>

landscape photography, Photography

[I want my country home with sheep, goats, horses and cows solemnly grazing in my yard; let it be neither small nor big, just the ideal size; that it contains a small lake ahead so I can see the reflection of the sun setting while sipping a good cachaça from an alembic; that contains my books, my records, my photographs and nothing else(*)]

(*) inspired by the lyrics and music of Jose Rodrigues Trindade and Luis Otavio De Melo Carvalho – “Casa no Campo” – and sung in the voice of Elis Regina.

On-The-Road Photography

Photography, Street photography

When I think about it, I am much more an “on-the-road” photographer than anything else I or any other name you all can give … and, I am satisfied, sincerely, with this title that I gave myself without any pomp or festivities of solemn acts that exist in life. I’m happy to try to be happy through photography, but it’s not easy to be happy … As only happy moments exist in life instead of the so-called happiness, I consider myself happy…Appearances, here, are not deceiving … They are real.

Four very small rural chapels beside the road.

landscape photography, Photography

Within my project of New Topographics of the Interior of Brazil I photograph in my trips very small rural chapels beside roads in very small towns where the roads usually pass alongside them or in the middle.


These polyptychs that I present are from chapels in the south of the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil, which is a region very prodigal in this type of historic architecture. Some of them are simply a delight.

Can we mimic/emulate/imitate/copy (or just try to) great masters in photography? I guess so…

Photography, portraits

I’m (almost) absolutely sure you won’t believe it: I never seek to mimic/emulate (or using a uglier word in this case: imitate, copy) photographs of great masters (of all of us photographers, I believe), but this ghost (if it’s really a ghost he’s a good one) chases me….even though, premeditatedly (this is another thing I don’t think you’ll believe), I never go out to my photo shoots with that idea in my head. But, they keep happening through the years. Here I show SEVEN examples.

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{roadside_memorials}

landscape photography, Photography

These little chapels are a milestone in many countries and in the case of Brazil it is no different.

Here in Brazil I believe it is a tradition passed by Portuguese colonization.

Whenever I find them on my many trips, most of the time on back roads (I don’t like highways) I stop and photograph.

note: the featured image is of a niece, Esvânia Elisa Pilhalarme (Borborema, SP-Brazil)