My name is Dezidério
I was born in Brazil, when I was 6 years old I moved to Portugal. At the age of 15 I began to develop a huge love for the visual arts, leading me to embark on this course at my high school.
I currently see photography as an art and not as a job.
And I believe that photography is a self-discovery. Every good artist photographs what he is.
Visual Arts
My journey began at school, when I decided to go to the visual arts course, where through drawing I discovered the power of light and how Renaissance (my favorite) and Baroque painters used it.
Videography
When I was 16, I received my first camera with the purpose of helping my father record videos for his radio. So I started studying composition, color theory, how to set up scenes with lights and especially the characteristics of lights.
Thus becoming a videographer / director of photography and starting my journey with cameras.
Landscapes
When I felt comfortable with the camera, I started taking it on every trip I went on.
I started putting it in manual mode and decided to learn how the settings worked independently.
Landscape photography gave me a lot of knowledge about composition, settings, advanced techniques and it was where I started to learn how to edit.
Animals
My photography studies continued and I took a step forward into animal photography, where I began to understand how the types of focus worked, how to use them and the different types of shooting, which made it possible to learn not to miss any important moments.
Portraits
Based on animal photography, which was already a challenge, portraits became easier, because I can tell a human being what I want him to do, which didn't happen with animals.
The study of portraits gave rise to knowledge about lenses, as which lenses to choose for each occasion. It also began the study of famous photographers and their work.
Conceptual Photography
Having gone through all this knowledge and knowing the basics of photography, I wanted to move on to advanced! I wanted to better understand photography as an form of art! I wanted to transform feelings into photography, messages into photography, ideas into photography.
And so I started doing Conceptual Photography.
Events
I had everything, knowledge, photos for portfolio, more than 2 years of photographic experience. I had even started teaching photography to amateurs and professionals, I was already reviewing photography projects for university students.
So I thought it was time to start working, I tried starting with events, where I photographed concerts by singers like Victor Kley and Melim among others and I also photographed festivals like Rock in Rio and Meo Sudoeste.
Studio
However, event photography didn't allow me to express myself in pictures, I couldn't create things from scratch.
I then began to study studio photography techniques.
I developed very quickly in conceptual photography and still photography techniques.
Food Photography
With a background of working in events, I had the opportunity to work with The Chefs Forum, where I was introduced to food photography. I loved that. A style of photography that mixed my beginnings in landscape and animal photography and my latest studies in studio photography! I then decided that I wanted to start working with just two types of photography! Studio and food!
Business
By working with these two I developed a third type of photography that I also loved. Business photography! Where I studied a client's business, and created a visual identity in photography, which could be through studio photography, or taking the studio to the business location and using the environment for this creation.
