Rio/Usina

mendocino

Baja

Billie and I relaxing

Portraits inside outside

Sens

Last Saturday I covered AliPresents and Muna Group event at Sens. It happens that Ivan Sampson, the nightclub reviewer for the local San Francisco paper The Examiner, was present. He did a piece about Sens and used three of my photos to illustrate his writing.

You can view the full article at the Examiner.com. Click here for the link.

Arpeggio Chair

This is a cardboard chair designed by Stephen Beemer. It is called Arpeggio. The chair is very sturdy, and has a lounge look to it. I could have this in my living room!

Bay Area Derby Girls'

Great game. Girls in roller skating playing very interesting strength, speed and thought group work. Here's a detail.

More dancing from last night

Tiefschwarz

Pics from Tiefschwarz visit to San Francisco. enjoy!

prepherens

Several times when I come from a gig I am confronted with pictures to choose from. Sometimes the images are really similar, or there are slightly different qualities that I appreciate. Man, editing can be hard. Now, I ask you to choose for me. Last night I covered this great indie rock concert in a small venue in San Francisco. The vocalist was a riot! which pic do you prefer?

Style Dj

Polaroid

It's no news that Polaroid is going out of business. So they came up with a software that makes digital files look Polaroid like. Check the results with this image taken at San Francisco Supermarket Street Sweep.

Dj

Ghana and People

During the month of August I covered the work of several Non-profit organizations in Ghana. I had the possibility to see Ghanaian people getting together to help the community about several issues. HIV, manufacturing goods, loans, teaching, architecture, workshops in trauma, to name a few of the projects covered.

Too see the all the images go to my website at www.dugo.zenfolio.com

Billie

What are portraits all about? connection, security, trust, relaxation, tension, anger, frustration?

Tennis

Sports photos happen fast, so better have a high shutter speed in case the photographer wants everything sharp. If not, there is the exciting gamble to get just enough blur to make the shot interesting, while retaining sufficient detail.

Hermanos

In Brazil Latino means people of Latin origins, such as Uruguay, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Panama or Italy. It is a very general denomination, and I find very few South and Central Americans using the word. In the United States, Latino is used as a marketing strategy, targeting a great percentage of the population.

The North American non-profit organization Remezcla, makes intelligent use of the word Latino. The company seeks to promote Latino events in several U.S. metropolitan areas. Their home base is New York, where Remezcla already has a great variety of events to put in its calendar.

The images below are from the launch party for the San Francisco website. If you want to know what is going on in the Bay Area we have one more source: sfremezcla.

Light

It has been a long while since I posted something in the blog. So I found this image in my archives and decided that this may bring some inspiration and ideas on what to post.

Carne Val

Sometimes Brasil arrives in the States, usually just for a few minutes. It was fun to take pictures of these girls. They were dancing with their huge outfits in a crowded dance floor!

Enjoy, it's yours

Spring 2008 started well for City College of San Francisco students and community. Running over the budget, the school finished the Student Wellness Center. The complex has gymnasium, swimming pool, gym, dance and martial arts rooms. The highlight is the pool area, with glass walls very similar to the new wing of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Below are a photo inside the gymnasium where students play badminton, the pool and the outside of the Student Wellness Center.

Hell! Inferninho

Last night I encountered some of the best dancers in San Francisco, or at least the most animated ones. The three images have different feelings and colors. I went to photoshop and changed each image to a look that I judged better suit the images. I did so with confidence because the theme is pretty obvious and having all of the photos looking alike would be monotonous to present as a trip tich.

Maria

Last Night!

I guess I don't have much to say, except: it was fun!! good people interacting.

Self Portrait

Both self portraits were taken in the same afternoon. The woman is a friend Marcela and the guy in the bathroom I don't know. I like his awkward yet discrete look.