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The "Traditional Peoples of Cerrado is a personal project that aims to register the people and daily life of the several traditional peoples that inhabit the Cerrado, a vast savanna area in the Brazilian hinterland.

For those who do not know, traditional people are people who occupy a region historically and have their habits, traditions and beliefs transmitted orally, from generation to generation. Some of them, like the quilombolas (relatives of ancient runaway slaves) and indigenous natives, have occupied the region for hundreds of years.

And just like the Cerrado, these poor communities are also being threatened in the maintenance of their historical cultural attributes. As the land occupation by large farms and agricultural enterprises advances, these people are being outcasted from the areas of their traditional settlements.

He started as a self-taught photographer in 2003 and since then has focused seriously on developing his photography skills. He seeks to improve his technique and is always challenging himself to raise the quality of his pictures in every new opportunity to click.

His inspiration is based on the great masters of landscape photography, in particular Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter and Edward Weston. Among contemporary photographers, Galen Rowell, Michael Frye, Marc Adamus, as well as Brazilians Sebastiao Salgado and Araquem Alcantara. All of them are inspiration and study tools in his search of images that fascinate with beauty. Above all, pictures that can convey the magic, the charm and the mystery of images captured around the world.

He is an international awarded photographer with more than 25 awards over the years. He also made several single and group exhibits, as well as had his work published in international photo magazines like Dodho.

Since 2017 he is working in a personal photo project: “Traditional Peoples of Cerrado”. It aims to record in images and video testimonials, the people and daily life of the various traditional communities that inhabit the beautiful biome of Cerrado.