Ironically, photography entered my life through fear.
When I was a child, I would cry whenever someone pointed a camera at me. The lens felt intimidating, almost threatening. Years later, that very same lens would become the way I chose to observe and interpret the world.
I was born in 1970 in Castelo Branco, Portugal, the city where I still live and work today.
My interest in photography truly began to develop in 1987. The following year, I bought my first SLR camera, a Praktica, beginning a journey that started as curiosity and quickly grew into a deep passion.
Since then, photography has become a way of staying attentive to the world around me. An exercise in observing light, time, and the small details that often go unnoticed: the movement of a landscape, a human expression, a drop of water, a ray of sunlight crossing the horizon.
Over the years I have taken part in several collective exhibitions, had work published in photography magazines, and received a number of recognitions. Among them are 1st and 2nd place in the colour category at the Castelo Branco Parish Council Photography Competition in 2005, as well as an International Honourable Mention in the Microsoft Future Pro Photographer competition in 2008.
With a background in new technologies, I found in photography a way to bring together artistic sensitivity and technical thinking. Today I mainly work with nature photography, video, and timelapse, exploring the relationship between light, landscape, and time.
I believe photography has a unique power: the ability to preserve moments that will never happen again.
In the end, it is a way of making time visible.