This was awesome because Hasselblad loaned me an H4-D40 for what was supposed to be six months, but I had it for a year and then gave it back, unfortunately. One of the highlights of my photography career came in 2010 when I won the Hasselblad Masters Award. I then moved to New York City and picked up my first Canon 5D Mark II on craigslist, which was about in 2008. My first digital camera was the D30, and at this point, I had made some bad investments, got into a lot of debt and had to sell almost everything. The next big evolution of my kit happened with the switch to digital SLR. I had a kit of three compact strobes and two 3000w packs that I would rent a generator for if I needed to shoot on location with light. During this time I used primarily Elinchrom lights in the studio. It has always been a process of upgrading my gear. About three months later I bought the lenses second hand from a photographer I had assisted. Soon I sold all my gear again, the Petacon Six kit, 4 lenses and a couple of bodies at this point, to get a Hasselblad 503cw. It was an old Eastern European camera brand, basically a cheap 6×6. As my career grew and kit bags got larger, I moved up to medium format ( guide), a Pentacon Six. I have always been a firm believer that, you need the proper tools to get the job done and for every job, those tools may be very different. At the same time, I opened my first studio MILKMAN back in 2001. I worked at some local newspapers while I got my degree at ARCO Center for Art and Communication in Lisbon, then I spent about five years assisting a number of commercial and fashion photographers. I saved up for a couple more months and picked up a 50mm f/1.8 lens. By selling this camera and the two kit lenses, I picked up a second-hand Canon EOS 5. I had it for maybe six months and quickly discovered that I wanted something better. Sold my guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, to pick up my first SLR which was a NIKON F65. It doesn’t seem that long to me, but I guess it has been – especially considering how gear has changed! During this whole time, my kit bag has gone through a series of evolutionary changes to where it is now.Īs a young photographer in the 90’s with no money, I started small. I also spend a lot of time traveling the world working for advertising agencies, fashion brands, and magazines.Įvery day has been a new adventure while working as a visual storyteller in both stills and video for almost two decades. I was born and raised in New York and I’m currently based in Lisbon, Portugal.
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