Awards and Exhibition:
LensCulture Street Photography 2017 - Juror's Pick
MIS Nova Fotografia - Museu Imagem e Som de São Paulo 2017
Voies Off Festival Des Recontres D'Arels 2018
Valongo Festival da Imagem 2018
Luz del Norte - Fotografia Contemporânea da América Latina - México 2019
Afar Maginze Travel Photo Awards 2019 - Juror's Pick
Independent Photographer - Visual Storytelling Finalist 2020
Working with travel photography in the last years, I could experiment tourism in its multiples dimensions. One of its aspects that fascinates me is its democratization.
In the last decade, the Brazilian middle class increased its expenses on tourism by 277%. Displacement, besides being more frequent, is more accessible and while in the past traveling was a privilege reserved for an economic elite, today the picture has changed and around 50 million people from this social strata, according to one recent survey, have the desire to travel.
Tourism is a two-way street that can lead us way beyond the iconic spots: When we watch from the outside, it is easy to pinpoint the enormous impacts caused by tourists on the communities they visit. However, when we are travelers, we are overwhelmed by a will of puerile happiness.
Traveling for tourism is like a celebration and tourists vibrate in a frequency of pleasure and joy. The essay “Amazon B-Side” is a portrait of this puerile and elusive feeling during a middle-class journey on a cruise ship all-inclusive along the Black River in the Brazilian rainforest.