I have been working on a series called IRL Stories.

Early this year, I got myself a 6x9 medium-format camera to portray my connection to the talents around me and abroad. People that have been doing outstanding work, massively (even if unnoticed) contributing to the engine of a creative network that makes a lively city.

Given the current 2020 state, I decided to focus on the ones that have been most impacted by COVID restrictions – artists whose work is based on holding space for a live audience, that have found their way around to keep connecting, creating and thriving. The series is a reflection of the growing digitalisation of everything around us and the current global crisis of IRL (in real life) experiences.

While I've been participating and documenting Alvin W Collantes's movement meditation format Dose of Pleasure since this summer, an initiative that took me out of an isolated state gracefully, I have also met up with my dearest hometown friend and utmost Diva GHETTHOVEN, who I've spent some time with recently, to find out what he has been making out of the empty stages and dance floors.

The series is hosted by UMBIGO Magazine, a platform for contemporary Art and culture based in Lisbon, with print issues distributing in the USA, Brazil and Europe. It's a bilingue magazine, so the piece can be read in Portuguese and in english.

Check out the first feature right here.