Now your current work deal with refugees. Why this theme ?
SB : Right now is a topic that interests me a lot personally . Then here in London makes sense , because there is such a multiculturalism.
Why black and white?
SB : This work is not well defined whether black and white or color .
But you have some color images and other sequence in black and white .
SB : Yeah, usually when it is " street photography " like to use black and white to because it is a reference to photojournalism. It is in this direction and also depends on what I want to convey and want to photograph .
So what makes sense in terms of photos in color?
SB : It depends a lot of the information. The portrait, for example, which opens the site is so rich and has so many details that did not make sense to be in black and white, at least for me .
When there are many elements involved prefer the color is that?
SB : It's all about the details, but if you are shooting a culture that lives much of the color, the light, which is warmer and more welcoming I go for color for certainty .
The " street photography " section in on city streets , but the pictures are also very rich.
SB : Yes , but there is a link to the story photography and it being black and white.
This is your master project ?
SB: This has ended in September 2013 and the final project in this part of the esay, which is called colloquium with interviews sound .
So what do you intend to do in future ? Leave a photography aside and redevelop other more artistic areas ?
SB : No, I think it's the opposite .
And what kind of photographer you want to be ?
SB : Ideally in longer a dream objective is to be closely linked NGOs , asigments and my own projects .
You intend to stay in London to achieve these objectives?
SB : Now in February I will start an internship for an institution "save the children" in the photography team. At least for three more months I'm here. After I would like to go to Brazil to live there, the culture, the level of the arts grows enough and this is a good bet .
But not in Portugal ? What is missing here for people like you?
SB : No, because there I miss many opportunities . Here much happens without anyone involved , I work a lot without being paid and people do me favors and I do not pay and there are many facilities. London is a lively city there are always things happening, to go see and photograph. It is a life that is not there. And when I say this , it is not day-to - day, is a kind of vibration. In Portugal , when I go home in the summer and at Christmas thre is always a low energy, it is always very complicated and I don't identify with that lifestyle of our country .
How do you define yourself as a professional , you think you're more artistic or not ?
SB : I find it is hard to put a label . But what interests me is trying to cross the methods of documentary photography to the level of research and as we approached an identity that works with a personal group with people and take things from there . Whether through registration of photographs, interviews, collection of personal objects and having the project had such a documentary research and do something artistic. That's what I tried to do in my master's project, people chose to share a story , linked to an object that also they selected and written about by them.
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