Photography
Landscapes · Territories · Infrastructures · Everyday Life
Photography has accompanied much of my academic work, particularly in Amazonia and in regions undergoing rapid social, economic and environmental transformation.
Some photographs emerge directly from research contexts. They document landscapes, infrastructures, settlements, extraction, coastal environments and everyday situations encountered during fieldwork.
Others originate independently from specific research projects and reflect a broader interest in places, material environments and processes of change.
The Photography section therefore complements the academic sections of this website without being reduced to research documentation.
Research-Related Photography
A substantial part of my photographic work is connected to research in Amazonia.
The images document environments and transformations related to:
- mining and extractive landscapes
- coastal environments and mangroves
- infrastructures and urban transformation
- extractive and fishing communities
- regional development processes
- changing relations between society and nature
Photography can make visible spatial relations, material conditions and transformations that are difficult to capture through written analysis alone.
At the same time, the photographs presented here should not be understood simply as empirical evidence. They constitute a complementary mode of observation, documentation and visual interpretation.
Places & Landscapes
Photography also provides a way of observing places beyond the immediate requirements of research.
This includes landscapes, cities, coastal environments, architecture and other spatial settings encountered through academic travel and everyday life.
These images are presented as photographic work in their own right, even where they intersect with broader interests in territory, materiality and transformation.
Visual Notes
Some photographs function as shorter visual observations rather than parts of larger photographic series.
They may document particular situations, objects, infrastructures, environmental conditions or moments of transformation.
This section provides space for individual images and smaller photographic sequences that do not require a full thematic gallery.
Photography and Research
The relationship between photography and research varies across the material presented here.
Some galleries are directly connected to particular research fields or projects. Others have only an indirect relationship to academic work.
Where a clear connection exists, galleries may link to relevant sections such as:
Mining & Extractive Transformations →
Extractive Communities & Territorial Relations →
Amazonia as a Comparative Observation Field →
These links provide context without turning the Photography section into an extension of the Research archive.
Selected Galleries
The gallery structure will develop from curated photographic series rather than from a complete geographical or chronological archive.
Gallery themes in development:
- Zona Bragantina & Coastal Pará
- Mangroves & Coastal Landscapes
- Carajás — Mining Landscapes
- Canaã dos Carajás — Urban Transformation
- other places and visual series as the photographic archive develops
Photography from research contexts, travels and other encounters with landscapes, infrastructures and processes of transformation.