Here’s a preview of a story I did for a new swimwear magazine called Mirage Magazine. My contribution is a 16 pages story in black and white. It was shot on location in Rio de Janeiro featuring Nina Mendes and Gabriel Barreto from 40 Graus Models. The magazine will be out during the S/S 2008 fashion weeks.
Here is a contribution I did for a upcoming book that will be published by TASCHEN later this year. The book will profile new graphic designers, web designers, photographers, artist and writers. This BOLA project was done in collaboration with Brazilian art director Luciano Lincoln, who was working in-house at BOLA until a few months ago. The model is Alexia Rautter from Ford Models Brazil. Click below to read the rest of this entry.
At BOLA Socioligy Design, we’re planning to publish a printed magazine every half year. Over the past 5 months, I’ve been working on and off on the first issue which will uncover the street-basket culture in Brazil. The Street-basket culture is a interesting cultural manifestation started in North American suburbs among black youngsters. In the beginning it was as a kind of resistance and exaltation of their black inheritance. In Brazil, where Streetball is closely related to the Hip Hop movement, the search for the African background restores, in many ways, the self confidence in young suburban kids. It gives them a social role in which they feel integrated to a much broader community. Trying to understand such culture is a way to investigate how the black culture, which is so important to the Brazilian formation, manifests itself and interacts with other social manifestations in the country. Working with an anthologist, a journalist and a graphic designer, the first issue will be out Q1 2008. 
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The lovely Sasha Lee from Beautiful/Decay, recently made a interview with me about my vision and approach to photography, aesthetic influences etc. It’s featured on their site as per today. Click below to read the full interview.
We’ve completed the work for Nike and the result is a 400-page book on football culture in Latin America. The client loves it and has just ordered 500 extra copies. Read on to see more images.
At BOLA Sociology Design we have been working for Unilever over the past few months to launch a new product-line in India. For the campaign I photographed stunning model, Ana Letícia Frediani, from Ford Models Brazil in our studio here in São Paulo. My colleagues, Helder and Lincoln from BOLA, just got back from the presentation for Unilever in London with big smiles on their faces.
Delighted to announce that from today, I’ll be represented in Italy by Allucinazione. With headquarter in Rome, Italy, I’m looking forward to work in this amazing city more often. I am now represented in United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.
I’m in the airport of Rio de Janeiro, waiting for my flight to São Paulo, and thought I wanted to say Hello. Over the past two weeks I’ve been photographing for book for Nike in four great cities of South America.This book is a research project on football culture in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. It’s made by Box1824 and BOLA Design, the two companies I’m working for here in Brazil.Traveling through Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, I’ve made portraits of young football talents. I’ve hicked through the favela in Rio to photograph kids playing football deep inside and watched great matches at the gigantic Maracanã Stadium.
