For over 15 years, I worked as an art director in renowned advertising agencies, collaborating closely with some of Brazil’s greatest photographers. This experience — combined with the books that have been with me since I first developed a deep aesthetic and conceptual interest in photography, especially the works of Sebastião Salgado and Ansel Adams — shaped my visual sensibility and taught me to value light, and narrative in every image. Over more than three decades of photographing, I shared my work only within a small circle. Still, each image has always been, for me, an indelible trace of moments that left a mark on me — fragments of time frozen into stories written by shadows and light. Now, I want to share them with all those who also see photography as a way to preserve what time insists on taking away.