Atlântica

Atlântica is a five-year photographic study of the northern coast of São Paulo, investigating the convergence of people, forest and sea. Captured on 35mm and 120mm film, the project documents a unique way of life where the boundary between inhabitant and environment is physically and culturally blurred.

The series explores a profound symbiosis: the lives of the local community are guided by natural rhythms—the pull of ocean tides and shifting weather—while their physical existence is seasoned by the same elemental forces that shape the landscape. This relationship represents a way of inhabiting the Earth that is currently undergoing deep transformation.

As urbanization advances, the work reflects on the melancholy and climate anxiety triggered by a vanishing environment. It captures a landscape where human traditions and ecosystems evolve and dissolve together. However, a persistent counter-force remains: in the quiet corners of the coast, nature actively reclaims abandoned structures, threading roots through concrete and absorbing the man-made.

Through an intimate lens shared with the community, I seek the edge between a persevering past and a present being slowly absorbed by the unstoppable force of forest, salt, and time.