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My personal photography projects are a direct reflection of my experience as a female raised in Brazil. After living in the UK for five years, it is now even more evident how deeply I have been affected by gender and race conflicts in Brazil, which is not only the worst country in South America for gender equality but also one of the most unequal countries in the world. Profoundly committed to photographing underrepresented subjects - mental health, gender, race, cultural diversity - I approach portraiture with a documentary eye but I'm in no way bound by a strict documentary approach. Quite the opposite, while photographing sensitive and social-inspired subjects I deliberately use colour, body expressions and allegory to convey a complex range of feelings. From determination, freedom and uniqueness to isolation, fear and abandon, my photographs aim to start a conversation about how it feels to experience life as part of non-dominant and underrepresented groups, set apart by gender, sexual orientation, mental health, culture or race.

Brazilian - Londoner / Anthropologist - Photographer

When I left Brazil for London in 2015, I was still working as a freelance PhD anthropologist researcher for Brazilian and North-American Universities, NGOs and charities, such as FrameWorks Institute and Harvard University. While enjoying the freedom of a freelance life, which allowed me to move to London and fall in love with the city, I felt less enthusiastic about not having a personal creative outlet and the relatively short reach of the field of academic research I had chosen to do. Allured by the stability of the British economy at the time, I decided I wouldn't postpone my dream to work in a creative job any longer. To train as a photographer, I experimented with different areas of photography - interiors, products, families, children - but portrait and documentary photography were always where I wanted to be as they allowed me to bring a visual dimension to the social-inspired questions I've accumulated since the start of my career as a social anthropologist.