I'm here today to talk to you a little bit about my trajectory as a photographer.

I've always liked photography. As a child and teenager, it was in front of the cameras that I wanted to appear, but I was never very good at it, and Life showed me that there were other paths that I could follow without leaving aside my charm for the images.

When I was 15, I got my first camera, a Kodak with film! I didn't even know how it worked.  Several films were lost.

I am Historian.

Without entering here, because the focus of the text is on my trajectory in Photography, the History College supported me to understand myself and become the person I am today.

In the 2000s, I was working in the Department of Culture of the City Hall of Viamão/RS-Brazil, there I knew two very special people, who taught me and inspired me in the Art of Photography. The seed was planted.

It was that, on a trip to Uruguay in 2005, I bought my first semi-professional camera, Sony. From that moment I took classes in specialized schools. The look was already mine, but I still needed to learn about the technique.

Later I bought my two cameras Nikon with all their complexities,  I kept studying.

I started offering my job as a photographer voluntarily because I needed to improve my knowledge. In a short time I was able to price my investment, both personal and material.

My first phase in photography is marked in recording lived experiences: photos of Maternity, Children's Birthdays, Family and Events. Something of Landscape or Street.

In 2017 I moved to Atlanta/GA-USA. I was living in USA for almost two years when I felt the need to create a story with this new place that had welcomed me. I put my camera in the car and took photographs from places and people for a week. With my peculiar look I could perceive the richness and infinite possibilities that this place was offering me, and I was building, thus, my photographic knowledge and my Art in this new reality.

This new Phase of mine is part of my whole history with History and Photography.

I'm a Detail Photographer. Of passion, color, light, shadow, naturalness. The image that does not freeze, but that gives Life to Memories.

It is in the simplicity of Photography that Art reverberates.

It is in simplicity that Art is Present.

The Art of Photography Thrills.

 

Fabiana Bumbel