Most paths are worth taking, even the ones that, in the end, make us walk back. These roads, devoid of human presence yet heavy with human implication, become markers of absence and possibility, not just as a path but as a decision.
This project explores the tension between connection and separation, movement and stillness, between the gravity of causality and the fear of the unknown.
Shot on medium-format analog film, the images embrace the slowness of process, mirroring the reflective nature of a long, meandering journey. Each photograph invites the viewer to step into the discomfort of uncertainty, and consider the roads taken, the roads abandoned, and the roads yet to be discovered.
Sample Gallery
Sample Gallery
Icebergs
Understanding the world by travelling inward
Icebergs are large freshwater bodies that have broken off a glacier and have gone floating in the open sea. Some people are like Icebergs. They’re my favourite kind of people.
This is an ongoing photographic series that looks into a parallel world, one that contrasts with the our dopamine-driven society we encounter every day. One that resists the value of novelty, excitement and interaction. One that is not overwhelmed with stimuli, information, and expectations, urging us to engage, speak up, and network. Its inhabitants want to belong without joining in, and explore the world, by travelling inward. They have realised, from a young age, that one is not strange because he looks different. The ones who are different in challenging ways, try to look as normal as possible.
The result is a photographic project that invites the audience to look inward, hoping that it inspires them to discover and appreciate their inner landscapes and the potential they hold.
All Islands Are Mountains
Questioning the power of stillness
We live in the age of multi-tabs, binge-watching, and immediatism. We have instant coffee, instant messaging, expressways, and speedy boarding. There is something to be said about the questions that can arise from the discomfort of a long drive, and I’m afraid that today, with all the shortcuts that allow us to travel and arrive faster than ever, we no longer have the time to understand what we are slowly losing along the way. I faced this while observing the contrasts of the gradually evolving Portuguese landscape, where natural and constructed spaces are progressively being transformed by a new Europe attempting to keep up with modern life. A dichotomy most evident in the rural areas where, for instance, at the base of the new brutalist express-ways whose speed prevented population exodus, we find old roads that wind around the same landscape slowly and sinuously, keeping tradition in.
Knowing that I could be facing a perspective bias resulting from the correlation between depth perception and the speed we travel through time, I decided to slow down and equipped with a medium-format analogue camera, wander and wonder about the power of stillness and boredom.
The result is a project that invites the audience to slow down and reflect on the human condition and the impact of speed and progress on our environment and humanity.
Sample Gallery
Sample Gallery
Spooky Action at a Distance
Questioning the power of memories
For this project, I have created a series of non-linear narratives depicting emotions that emerged from those memories, often biased, reverberating from a reverie of a life I barely recall.
It’s about the nuanced interplay between memory and emotion, and how our past experiences shape our present.
The result is a visual analisys of the ephemeral nature of nostalgia in the context of puzzle-like fragments that are woven together, and how the nuanced interplay between memory, emotion and perception emerges, shaping an individual’s experience of the world.
Previous published essays and projects:
Folk Tales
Under a Storm
Inland Iceland
Inland Morocco
Inland Madeira
Perspectiva e circunstância
O Natal é um estacionamento vazio
Perseids
Project Paperclip
