“Photographing for me is always an exploration, always an adventure”
Brazilian photographer Sandra Cattaneo Adorno took up photography at the age of sixty and is fascinated with photography shaping the way we see and remember life.
The author of The Other Half of the Sky and Águas de Ouro (Radius Books, 2019 and 2020) Cattaneo Adorno’s work was recently published in Gulnara Samoilova’s landmark book Women Street Photographers and Portrait of Humanity.
She shares about her photography, “I love the way strong light and harsh contrast transform a scene and layer it with mystery as much as I appreciate the strength of bold colors and the immediacy with which they can communicate emotions. I enjoy photographing in strong light because of the way it transforms the scene and loads the images with poetry and mystery through very graphic effects.”
Cattaneo Adorno received the 2021 and 2020 Julia Margaret Cameron Award, the 2020 International Photography Award, the 2019 Portrait of Humanity Award in collaboration with Magnum Photos, and was a 2019 National Geographic finalist.
She has exhibited work at Somerset House, London; Photoville, Brooklyn; Miami Street Photography Festival; Italian Photo Festival, Venice; PX3 Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Paris, and Women Street Photographers Exhibition in Paris, among many others.