I have been a layout designer since childhood and didn’t know it. My friend Gabriela will confirm that mainly after we reviewed our childhood letters that she’s kept all these years. I used to think of patterned scissors, magazine cutouts, and fonts that captured my message with intent. These letters from nearly 30 ago have been well-kept and were a revelation to my ongoing design work. Later, I studied and practised how effectively objects fit into a space and their overall effect on the viewer. 

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As far as being a photographer, my parents are to blame. My English primatologist father took me from Manaus to Scotland and England, Bahia and Belo Horizonte, in Brazil. My mother, an artist and great cultural enthusiast, would not shy away from having shorter trips to show me textures, smells, music, and art around Brazil, which brought me a taste of my country. 

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Today, I celebrate and showcase the work I have been doing in both fields. I have a couple of others that will be part of this portfolio in the future, but today, I focus on these two. 

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My formal studies include an Art and Design Foundation diploma from Oxford Brookes University in the U.K., where my work was about photo installation and museum studies, and Photography from Boston University in Georgetown, DC. I have a B.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Maryland and aided my previous English teaching work with two upcoming Education and Neuroscience graduate degrees. My internships and work were for Future Media Concepts, Conservation International in Visual Resources, as a Photo and Design Coordinator, and later freelancing for Re:wild. 

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I design the layout for field guides, scientific journals and publications about primates and conservation.

 

I am open to doing layouts for journals and other science publications. 

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I have travelled extensively doing photography and am writing a book about it. 

I am agile, communicative, responsive, and attentive to detail when working. I genuinely love seeing projects come to fruition, especially in print.