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“For me, photography is a path of discoveries. It is through photography that I venture into the world.”

Over time, my gaze has followed a path connected to the moments of my own life—sometimes capturing the everyday with the sensitive and creative eye of a musician, and other times exploring realities with the curious and questioning eye of a biologist.

I began photographing instinctively, guided by feelings that told me where to point my camera and how to shape the intention behind each image. This intuitive and almost primitive way of photographing remains in me, while over the years I have added experiences and knowledge that have shaped my growth as a photographer.

It took me a long time to recognize myself as a photographer. I carried an inner demand, a constant feeling that something was missing before I could truly acknowledge myself as one.

On this journey, I let photography reveal to me my own style—one that would represent me. I often questioned whether I needed to have a defined style at all. I looked around, researched the works of great artists who inspired me, and revisited my own photographs in search of an artistic standard that could make my work recognizable.

The truth that emerged is that I never followed a single defined pattern that would confine me. But when I studied the careers of the artists I admired, I understood the constructive process through which they shaped the language of their art within their images. That’s when I realized something greater: I saw myself reflected in the artistic expressions I was studying—in the storytelling of Sebastião Salgado’s photography, in the strength of Paul Nicklen’s conservation images, in Arthur Meyerson’s walks through city streets, in Olga’s abstraction, in Michael O’Neill’s devotion to the world of Yoga, and in Vik Muniz’s art as a tool to transform realities. In each of them, I could find something that resonated with my own images or my purpose as a photographer. This broke down a barrier for me: I understood that my artistic identity is fluid, shaped by my curious gaze at diversity in continuous movement.

My photography is the outcry of my truth—the courage to stir emotions and provoke reflections about reality, expressed through a restless, accelerated life with a voracious will to create and move others through art. My images trace a winding line, evoking moments in time and spaces—physical, spiritual, or emotional—that represent and compose my life.

Over time, I gradually came to see myself as a photographer. Like a tree, I first spread roots, seeking diverse paths of connection and learning. Then, I grew into a strong yet flexible trunk, attuned to the seasons of nature, and extended my vision like leaves carried by the wind, leaving impressions of my worldview wherever they might land.

It is a deep gaze inward—retracing the child I once was: a dreamer, free to create imaginary worlds, and curious enough to want to become a scientist and explore the world with all its possibilities, believing he could make it a better place.

That spirit remains in me. That is who I am. That is my way of photographing. If it were different, it wouldn’t be me—it wouldn’t be my art.

RICARDO ABRAHÃO – PHOTOGRAPHER