on Face Identity

  One of the perks of walking around in the city without glasses is the blurriness on other people’s face. If face is identity, I then walk amongst faceless souls. Every time a… Continue reading →

B Shot by a Stranger: The New Loners (NSFW)

In this generation of screenagers, it seems that loneliness is taking an incredible role. People doesn’t smell each other anymore. They don’t touch each other. They barely know what a hug means. They… Continue reading →

Ana Hatherly, April 25th 1974.

or the Portuguese revolution 40 years ago. Portugal always had this need of dragging its own past with it, and its past has so much weight in its people that they never have… Continue reading →

The Camera Obscura in the scientific war between Christianity and Islam

  I know that I’ve never wanted to talk about gear… but let’s see this post as a matter of faith, science, philosophy and intellect. Anyway, this comes as second part of The… Continue reading →

Directing Photography: People (NSFW)

Directing photography: People/Conceptual As I wrote in the previous post, on Directing Portraits, here’s the 2nd part: Directing People on Conceptual photography. Here we don’t want to bring the personality of the model:… Continue reading →

Directing Photography: Portrait

Note: 2HeadS‘ aim is to give tips and help other photographers, emerging, amateurs, even professionals who want to change, for example from landscape to human related. This means that your own tips and… Continue reading →

B Shot by a Stranger – New 2013 (NSFW)

Here we go again! new photos, new volunteers, new guys for the old loneliness: that plague which is being taken by so many of our young guys! The B Shot by a Stranger… Continue reading →

Un Soir Place de la Bastille

“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” – Lao… Continue reading →

The Self, the Mirror, our Shadow and its Fear

To feel fear we need that social empathy dental floss, as feelings like this can not make sense if only one exists: It’s not a feeling we can have without the existence of… Continue reading →

Wordless Green

Letters on paper to read to fill the blank of consciousness fulfilled letters not there not soul filling body self fitting on a page filled with nonsense words. Lost By any poet. Consciously… Continue reading →

It’s a shame. by Alejandro Campos Herrera

“It is when you’re alone that you dare to be yourself. No boundaries, no rules, no nothing. There you are in your room just as you are, the remains of what the day… Continue reading →

Let’s Move! (NSFW)

I had to bring “Sequence Photography” to 2HeadS, it was just a question of time and opportunity, so here you have: Eadweard Muybridge. If you do analogue photography, I’m sure that when you… Continue reading →

A Photo Drawing (NSFW)

Art-photographers are exactly that: artists who use photography as a mean of expression. But this doesn’t mean that we stuck on photography, pure/raw photography I mean. Before photography there was other means of… Continue reading →

A Man’s Shrine

“A shrine (Latin: scrinium “case or chest for books or papers”; Old French: escrin “box or case”) is a holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr,… Continue reading →

Intercourse: A Table Tribute (NSFW)

Along with a chair or a bed, the Table is probably one of the most important pieces in our lives: we do most of the main things at the table. We use tables… Continue reading →

Open for Discussion

After reading Man Barlett‘s essay “On Coffee Houses, salons, and the Post Arts” that is featured on Hyperallergic, I started wondering on real and cyber people’s openness to discussion in public. As I… Continue reading →

Let Me Be Your Private Voyeur (NSFW)

Hi guys! Did you miss the “B Shot by a Stranger“? As you know I’m doing a 2013 version of it to publish a second book… and guess what? The new loners are… Continue reading →

What Makes a Good Photograph? (part I)

As you can imagine this is probably the question #1 that all emerging and not so emerging photographers do. In fact most people, from art collectors to economists. But let’s focus on photographers… Continue reading →

The Art of Suffering

When I wrote the “pain should never be an excuse, but a tool for you to create with“, it came to my mind several other artists who certainly had that concept in mind.… Continue reading →

The Insiders: An Intimate Portrait (NSFW)

If for The Outsiders, we need the models to have attitude and empathy, to shoot The Insiders, we need double empathy, trust and a deep feeling of voyeurism as the models are not… Continue reading →

The Outsiders (NSFW)

Lately there’s a new trend in fashion blogs in which they do snapshots of people outfits at the street. You’re taking a walk and suddenly out of the blues one of those bloggers… Continue reading →

Conversations Around the Table

The series “Conversations around the Table” was inspired in the Portuguese tradition of meeting people around a table – for no reason, and also in the wonderful short film “Coffee and Cigarettes” directed… Continue reading →

Pain should never be an excuse, but a tool for you to create with

“Men are tormented not by things themselves but by what they think about them.” Epictetus (Epictetus was a Greek philosopher who was born slave. Epíktetos in Greek means “acquired.”) – Giving one more… Continue reading →

Duane Michals: The StoryTeller

I just wrote a terrific text about the tremendously inspiring Duane Michals and how he collects collections to tell stories inside stories facing his own fears, comparing to Peter Greenaway and his collection… Continue reading →

How to Be an Art Sponsor?

Today I was thinking about 2HeadS and how could this blog help you and be more useful to you, no matter if you’re photographer, curious, interested in photography, art collector, art gallerist, art… Continue reading →

A review on your Portfolio

make a Review on your Portfolio! I get a considerable amount of emails from photographers asking if I can review their portfolios: I’ll do the review of your portfolio for a fee of … Continue reading →

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

No matter how ugly you are, you’re not a real photographer if you never did a self-portrait in the mirror. It’s a must. And you know that. It has nothing to do with… Continue reading →

Le Voyeur Social

There is no age or sex to be put apart from the society. In every culture of the world, there are always some people who are less people than humans: the sub-humans who… Continue reading →

A World’s Voodoo Trance

Rites, Rituals and Voodoo Trances If for some, Rite is more connected to religion and Ritual to paganism, for others, Rite is connected to death and Ritual more of a celebration of life.… Continue reading →

A Sacred Erotica (NSFW)

Before anything else, I advise you to cover your eyes before reading this post. You can leave 2 fingers slightly open as if you’re shocked though, even if you’re alone. I’ll be talking… Continue reading →

B Shot by a Stranger 2013

It’s official: After the magnificent response on the “B Shot by a Stranger” project that I’ve created in 2012, and still with so many to unveil and discover, I decided to make a… Continue reading →

A Bad Morning

My dearest morning, If you didn’t notice yet, every time we think or have conscious that we are ready to have or accept whatever we wished for us, it seems that we attract… Continue reading →

Sketching Concepts. a Tribute.

Some years ago, doing the editorial coordination for a great exhibition of Santiago Calatrava in Cultural Centre of Belém in Lisbon, I got in hands by the architect a massive pile of his… Continue reading →

Straight Thoughts on Nudes and Ostriches (NSFW)

Being interviewed for a TV channel, in loco at one of my exhibitions in Lisbon, and standing in a room with female nudes, some animals and few other male nudes depicted, I was… Continue reading →

Y Creative Photographs: 100.000 followers!

Once upon a time… it was July, 26th in Paris. The day was hot and I had to stay home waiting for a pack. Once again I was scrolling my tumblr dash and… Continue reading →

Creativity. The Immediate Long Term.

In the past few years at least once per month there’s a brand new emerging photographer who found how to levitate, how to make a different reflection of himself in the bathroom mirror,… Continue reading →

Notes On: The Female Lenses

Writing the “Notes On: Persian Photography” I realised the importance of female photographers in history. The world can have the best chefs, painters, sculptures, even writers most of all males, but in photography… Continue reading →

An Interview With The Incredible Photographer Gonzalo Benard for MutantSpace

Gonzalo Benard is an incredible photographer from Portugal based in Paris. I’m delighted that he agreed to do this online interview with me. I hope you enjoy it and get some sense of… Continue reading →

2012 was a dynamic year after all.

I have a terrible chronological memory, which is good most of the times, but when I need to organize time past it becomes a hard task, specially when I have to answer journalists… Continue reading →

Tell Me a Story: Street Photography

By the time you must know that I live in Paris, which is the city of Street photography by excellence.  And unless you’re starting/studying photography you might be asking why am I talking… Continue reading →

A Photo not taken: The Golden Castle.

The ground’s tones were the same as the walls in terms of grey scale, but in fact it was kind of golden sand lit by the sunrise, those that fill a wheat field… Continue reading →

Notes On: Persian photography

Iran is home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations and the blossoming of Persian literature, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, mathematics and art became major elements of Muslim civilization. But it was due to… Continue reading →

Notes On: Crossing Borders

As I wrote at “The Portrait I, a brief history of.“, the concept of the portrait started in Renaissance, mostly sponsored by the Catholic Church, including the Pope himself who was probably the… Continue reading →

The Awakening of the Self

The Awakening of the Self, by Natasha Christia for EYEMAZING, Spring issue 2009 The encounter with Portuguese photographer Gonzalo Bénard brings to mind the ephemeral, yet deeply mystic moment of “epiphany” that accompanies… Continue reading →

Bringing the Taboo to Beauty

Bringing the Taboo to Beauty, an interview with the art-photographer Gonzalo Bénard, by Kai Behrmann for Top Photography Films. “Photography is the essential part of a triangle in a dialogue composed by the… Continue reading →

Flip the Compo!

Flip the Compo! I often get young – and not so young – photographers showing me photographs they took but with which they’re not completely satisfied with, something like “it’s great, but something’s… Continue reading →

Small Town Inertia

An interview to the photographer Jim A. Mortram. “Small Town Inertia is a long form social documentary and environmental portraiture series that I have been working upon for the last 3 years.”  … Continue reading →

The Conspiracy of the Triangle (NSFW)

The Conspiracy of the Triangle. A principle in composition. Like it is The Conspiracy of the Brain. It’s quite curious to see that even since the Palaeolithic paintings or engravings at the walls/caves,… Continue reading →

The Portrait II: or how to face it.

In a series of lectures I gave, one was about composition, from the great masters to now, how they built the scenes to frame them better and to give more attention to the… Continue reading →

The Portrait I. a brief history of.

Or how the photography changed the whole concept of the portrait. It is told that the concept we have of portrait was born in Renaissance, when human being start becoming the main part… Continue reading →