“Essentially what photography is life lit up.”
— Sam Abell
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hotography is a passion which I exercise daily, as everyday life constantly presents us with singular moments worthy of observation.
I started studying photography while I was in high school in Brazil – when digital cameras were still a novelty and film cameras too expensive for a beginner. It was only during my audiovisual degree at Universidad Europea de Madrid that I had the chance to borrow a decent DSLR from school. I still remember the feeling of exploring a whole new place with the camera in my hands. It was liberating. I would take the camera everywhere I went. Later, when I moved to Ireland, I also attended a digital photography course at Trinity College in Dublin.
The technique, concept and professional references are essential for a photographer’s work. But the sensitivity to perceive a moment is innate.As the photographer Sebastião Salgado once said:
“I don’t believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.”
Photography for me is the desire to stop the time. Even if it’s just for a frame of a second.
