Photography & Video

You can check out my full Photography archive here.

A number of portraits I've taken over the years (2012 to the present), including a few self-portraits and some political portraits of activist and party members/sindicalists.

Insomnia. 2013

You can't sleep and you don't wanna be stuck in bed. So you get up, everything is blurry, and you decide to wander around the park where you're camping and lurk into people's lives. You get a few scares, so you run, you walk faster, you eventually get lost.

This is the introduction I wrote at the time I took these pictures, which were meant to express insomnia and all the feelings and sensations it conjures.

The blurriness is intentional to depict confusion and getting out of bed in a desperate attempt to go for a walk and perhaps get tired, watching life unfold with the sensation that it's all a little odd, from a woman watering her plants with a hose at 2 AM in the morning, to flowers looking dark and menacing.

y6This is some of the most fun I've had photographing.

I had a few ideas and took an entire chest with props and clothes to try on my model, Débora. I've always enjoyed working with her because she has a background of ballet and her movements are graceful and flowy, meaning the movement in her pictures won't be static, and I can just ask her to move a certain way and catch the movement at a given point in time, making it completely natural and spontaneous.

We went to the woods and tried out a few poses, almost all caught during some movement or other, with little forced posing.

Photography was taken by me, the model is Débora, and the makeup was by me, with a few concepts I had in mind beforehand, but also a lot of experimenting at the time. Dark colours, glitter, to make her look dark and dreamy all at the same time. Both sweet and angelic like a ballerina, but with a dark side about her as well.

I wanted to give the photographs this dreamy surreal quality, so I made it not too sharp a focus and used cellophane (my favourite) paper filters in front of the lens to achieve both some of the blur but also the bokeh effects when the light hit the paper on the lens.