I was born and raised in Brazil and have been living in Connecticut since 1995.  My journey with the camera began with food and crafts, captured in a personal blog I kept from 2011 to 2014. Over time, photography became something more — a way to hold on, to make sense of memory, emotion, and to appreciate the quiet beauty of everyday life. In a world filled with noise and contradiction, the act of taking a photograph became a way of listening closely — to myself, to the world, to the stories that often go untold — in search of the right expression of some feeling or emotion.