Now and Then

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Those photos were taken at Brasília central bus station. Someone had made an urban art intervention with some big posters of old photographies. I was fascinated by the contrast between the people going by with their daily lives and the static image of the past. To me it was as if present and past had come together for a brief period of time. I shoot this images with B&W in mind.


I discovered photography pretty much by accident in 2004, and it changed my life. I guess I can say that it had a liberating effect on me. I was an electrical engineering graduate student back then, and in that semester I failed almost all of my classes, because all I did was stay in the library reading about photography and walking around my city taking photos. It was the first thing that I had ever found that could really fit the word "Passion". I felt like a child discovering the world for the fist time. It sparked something inside me. I wanted to see things (to really see them) and to communicate to people with my images. And I still do.

Recently I have been thinking about perusing photography as a job. I want to make a living out of my passion. I'm not that young any more, but they say it's never to late to change your life. The thing that I want the most is to learn and to get out of this scholarship as a better photographer. It's really hard to put into words why I feel this is so important to me... I could blame the fact that I'm not writing in my native language, but that would not be entirely true. It would be as hard to do it in my own language. I think the problem is that I'm trying to use many words to say something that is somewhat simple: I want this opportunity because I sincerely and deeply love photography and I wanna live my life taking pictures.