About Me.

Images by Sofia Costa Photography

If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.

José Saramago, Blindness

Photography is one of my most passionate hobbies together with cinema and music.

I pursued analog photography and cinema for three years in the Multimedia Art Institute in Porto and later at the Fernando Pessoa's University as part of my advertising/communication degree. While for music, I was a bass player and composer in alternative rock bands from my teenage years till my 35s.

Professionally, I took the direction of graphic design. In the span over 20 years, I’ve built a solid career as an Art Director and also as a trainer in Editorial Design, Illustration, Digital Photography and Video.

Since moving to Warsaw in 2014, and as part of my daily job as an art director, I also had the chance to develop professionally as a photographer/videographer.

My experience in professional photography began with corporate product beauty shots and TV commercial photo shoots for print and digital campaigns worldwide. After this, I started exploring other domains that are personally more rewarding such as dance photography, indie projects and artistic events (plays, concerts, etc.).

Dance comes into my life due to a series of professional, personal and family influences. Apart from my mother having been a dancer in Portugal as a young girl, my first professional job as a videographer was to cover a large dance event in Guimarães, where I had the opportunity to work with several Portuguese dance schools and with a professional contemporary London dance company called Storm. It was at this time that I was able to witness all the hard work that is behind the lightness and sensitivity of the artistic body movement which impressed me very much.
Years later, I had the opportunity to dedicate myself in a more professional way to photography, and it was then that I actively sought to include dance photography back in my life.