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Born on 1972, Brasilia – Brazil 1989 – 1994 Journalistic studies at University of Brasilia. Various practical training at local journalistic agencies. Begin with the visual documentation about Brazilian land workers in Goiás-State 1995 – 1999 Photography Design Studies at the College of Dortmund by Prof. Arno Fischer. Grant by the German catholic organization for Students of the third world – KAAD. Exchange at the “École Régional des Beaux-Arts de Nantes” – France. Continuation of the documentation about Brazilian Land workers. Anthropological report about slave descendents in an isolated region of Brazil, the Kalunga People. Visual work about Family Pictures. Realization from the project “Sertão” (documentation about Brazilian land workers’ daily life at the most dry and poor region of the country, affected by political questions) 2000 – Graduation Studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig 2001 – Free Projects in the Brazilian Amazon 2003 – Free Project about “Candomblé” (Brazilian Voodoo) and the pubs of Rio 2004 –
Master Studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig 2001
– Körber Foundation Photo Award Cultural Suisse magazine “du”, edition: “Im Sertão. Eine Brasilianische Begegnung”, GEO France, GEO Korea, ADAC Spezial, RAG Magazin, Allegra, Adveniat, Kontinente, Marie Claire at different countries and corporate magazines. Mother language:
Portuguese Work as a freelance
photographer in Brazil and Germany, also realization of free projects. Expositions 1999 – The Kalunga People - University of Cologne 2000
- Sertão - Galerie Le Manege, Berlin. 2004 – “Hart life – Land work in Brazil”, Rheinisches Industrie Museum Oberhausen, Germany Collective 2000 -
Sertão - Kulturhaus Latein Amerika, Cologne. 2001
– Freedom Körber Foundation Photo Award, Museum für
Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 2002 – „Faith“ – Foam, Photography Museum Amsterdam, Holland |
