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“Passing wheels on the market 2″

This photograph is part of an essay that I published in “Olho de Peixe” magazine, in Fortaleza. The essay portrayed Netherlands’s relation with bicycles and how the bicycle emancipated me in terms of locomotion and how I explored my new city just by bike.

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“The king is naked”

World Naked Bike Ride in Amsterdam. This “king” kindly posed for me and asked to be photographed. Not only he but several other naked people from the event allowed themselves to be photographed freely and authorized the publication of the photos as a way of disseminating the WNBR protest. WNBR it is a demonstration held annually in the main cities all over the world and originates from the Spanish cyclonudist, first performed in Zaragoza in 2001. The “cyclonudist” demands the street back for people who live there and move around own account (walking, cycling etc.), and protests in a playful way against the dominance of the street by cars and other motorized vehicles. Participants undress more to make the vulnerability of the human body in traffic visible and to demand respect for the body. With the same intentions and objectives, Conrad Schmidt started the World Naked Bike Ride in 2004 as a worldwide action.

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“The ball man”

It was spring, King’s Day in Maastricht. People were selling a little of everything on the streets, there was a stage in front of the church and a band played happy songs, the children played in the square and a grandpa with a cowboy hat was the conductor of the games ball.

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“The dance”

Two sisters dancing together to the sound of the street band in the King’s Day. This picture means a lot for me because it shows the purity of being a child, it brings me peace and shows the love in its most genuine way.

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“Sittin’ on the dock of the bay”

Cloudy day in Den Bosch and a man who looked as if came out from a old movie played the accordion. He played as if from every note a feeling came out of him, the music came from the depths of his soul. The accordion reminds me of the place where I came from, it is an instrument that is in the music of my land, so I was immediately transported there, for a few meters I walked in Fortaleza on Dutch soil to the music of the man in the photo.

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“A girl at the end of the tunnel”

It was a Sunday afternoon and I went out on the streets of Rotterdam taking pictures with the theme “shapes” in my head. At that time I was producing an essay on the relationship between the Netherlands and bicycles, I should be photographing bicycles that day. But the artistic production of the photographer does not work under any pressure or scheduling, that day my impetus was to photograph shapes and this photo happened as a surprise when I decided to photograph the slide of a playground inside and I saw that at the “end of the tunnel” there was a little girl about to slip through it.

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“Garotos de Ipanema”

Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. This composition of paintings is part of my exhibition concluding the photography course in Fortaleza, at Travessa da Imagem. The theme of my essay was “search” and the title “the search for the occupation of public spaces”. The registration is for a Sunday afternoon in Ipanema, because on Sundays the city hall closes the main avenue of the most tourist and noble area of the city for cars. The avenue, which is in one of the most beautiful views of Rio, in front of the beach, is intended on this day only for pedestrians, who usually go out running, cycling, skating and walking with the family through the avenues occupied by the people.

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“The Beatles of Ipanema”

A group of six boys passed by the main avenue of Ipanema and one of them saw me sitting on the floor with the camera ready to shoot the movement, he said: “Hey, make a nice photo of us” – my click was almost instantaneous and resulted in one of the photos that I like the most in this essay. Oh, and before you tell me that The Beatles are just four boys, I must say: The Beatles of Ipanema are six boys and they look very happy. This frameset is part of my essay of concluding photography course in Fortaleza, at Travessa da Imagem. The theme of my essay was “search” and the title “the search for the occupation of public spaces”. The registration is for a Sunday afternoon in Ipanema, because on Sundays the city hall closes the main avenue of the most tourist and noble area of the city for cars. The avenue, which is in one of the most beautiful views of Rio, in front of the beach, is intended on this day only for pedestrians, who usually go out running, cycling, skating and walking with the family through the avenues occupied by the people.

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“Christ the Redeemer”

A beautiful portrait of Copacabana. We can see a bit of everything between that three coconut trees. The street artists sells their stuff, a bit of the sea, a bit of the crowded beach on weekends, the tourist pose to a picture with a sand sculpture art (typical in Copacabana beach) and we deduce that Christmas is coming, Santa Claus is among the sand bodies of women and a miniature of Christ the Redeemer, which is a symbol of Rio de Janeiro. In 2007 Christ the Redeemer sculpture was informally elected as one of the seven wonders of the modern world.

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“Late afternoon”

Late afternoon light in Arpoador, Rio de Janeiro. This light reminds me of hot summer days in the wonderful city, I remember the taste of iced mate tea on the beach with Globo biscuits, the noise of the sea and the people playing “altinho“, the wind on their faces and the feeling of peace. I close my eyes and I can feel the sand on my feet, on my whole body, that sand that renews your soul, that comes out in the shower after beach and stay in the best memories of my Rio de Janeiro.

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“Arpoador”

Arpoador has a Arpoador has a specific and good smell. You can think “of course, it smells beach”, but not, Arpoador smells Arpoador. You could bring me there, with my eyes closed, I would breathe and I would know immediately where I was, I know exactly the good smell and the noise that Arpoador has. It wouldn’t be so beautiful with my eyes closed, because Arpoador also has a specific color, especially when it’s summer, the orange sky of the sunset is amazing and looks like the full world has stopped all activities just to observe that frame happening. This is a black and white picture of Arpoador, but I am sure you can see the colors if you close your eyes after my explanation. Now you also love Arpoador, don’t you?

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“Copacabana”

Famous for its crescent-shaped beach, Copacabana is one of the liveliest neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro and attracts, throughout the year, a mix of locals and tourists to its sands and mosaic-lined marginal. Among the tall buildings overlooking the beach are the art deco hotel Copacabana Palace and the imposing Copacabana Fort, where there is a military museum. Further inland, relaxed cafés and informal bars populate the quiet streets. With clear and fine sand, Copacabana Beach is one of the best known beaches in the world and with its 4 kilometers of waterfront, it serves as a stage for major events such as beach soccer and beach volleyball championships, in addition to the very famous New Year’s Eve party, which features a great pyrotechnic show and free show distributed on several stages set up exclusively for the event. The “Princess of the Sea”, as it is also known, has an excellent infrastructure, with kiosks, patrolling, lifeguard service, showers, toilets and bike paths and its wide strip of sand, which extends from Princesa Isabel Avenue up to the Copacabana fort, it lives full of people from all over the world, at any time of the day.

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“Paulista”

Still on my essay “the search for the occupation of public spaces”, this frameset is part of my essay of concluding photography course, which I did part in Rio de Janeiro and part in São Paulo. The place is Paulista Avenue, in São Paulo, where the people occupy the city’s main avenue with artistic and cultural activities on Sundays. It’s a place for a combination of musicians, circus artists, theater groups, performers, artisans, and small food producers with all kinds of audiences, a cultural explosion. In these two photographs, I depict this beautiful hula hoop dance, but especially the smile of someone who was truly having fun.

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“Gipsy”

It seems that she was standing, posing for me, to be portrayed, but that click happened in the middle of a dance, at the exact moment when she looked at me and smiled. Because of that I would say this is a “bressonic” photograph (inspired in Henri Cartier-Bresson), the captured moment, the frozen moment, something that happened in one way, but it can be in many other ways in the imagination of those who look at this gypsy.

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“Vertical boy”

Lying on the floor of Avenida Paulista, totally surrendered to the floor that shook with art on Sunday where the avenue is intended only for the people and not for cars, a photograph I took in a moment of literal vulnerability, after all I could be run over by a skate that moment. The vertical boy is one of my favorite photos for portraying the beauty of São Paulo in a way that immediately transports me there just by looking at this gray combination of buildings and asphalt.

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