TIAGO CHEDIAK | PHOTOGRAPHER
TIAGO CHEDIAK IS A BRAZILIAN FASHION AND PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER FROM RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL.
BORN INTO A FAMILY OF RENOWNED ARTISTS, TIAGO WAS RAISED AMIDST EXPONENTS OF BRAZIL’S MUSIC, THEATER AND CINEMA.
TIAGO FOUND IN MUSIC – AND IN PUNK ROCK – THE EARLIEST OUTLET TO HIS AESTHETIC SENSIBILITIES TOWARD THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF URBAN LIFE. INDEED, GUITARS AND ROCK BANDS DOMINATED MOST OF HIS HIGH SCHOOL YEARS. IT WASN’T UNTIL EXPLORING JOURNALISM IN COLLEGE THAT TIAGO CHOSE THE CAMERA AS HIS MAIN INSTRUMENT FOR ARTISTIC EXPRESSION.
TIAGO’S LATE TEENAGE YEARS MARKED AN IMPORTANT SHIFT – THE MOMENT ART MORPHED FROM SOMETHING TIAGO DID INTO SOMETHING TIAGO LIVED.
BUILDING HIS CAREER IN A CONTINUOUS STREAM OF FASHION WEEKS IN NEW YORK, RIO DE JANEIRO AND SÃO PAULO, A TURNING POINT CAME IN 2011, WHEN TIAGO’S NEW CREATIVE HOME IN BROOKLYN OPENED HIS WORK TO A LARGER WORLD.
WITH PHOTO SHOOTS FEATURED IN MARIE CLAIRE, HARPER’S BAZAAR AND VOGUE, THE PAST 10 YEARS HAVE SEEN TIAGO WORKING WITH SOME OF THE WORLD’S MAJOR FASHION MAGAZINES, WEBSITES, AND BRANDS.
ALONGSIDE HIS FASHION AND PORTRAIT WORK – OR PERHAPS IN COUNTERPOINT TO IT – TIAGO SPENDS TIME DOCUMENTING UN-DISTILLED, URBAN LIFE VIA ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY.
JOÃO PAULO RODRIGUES | TATTOOER
JOÃO PAULO RODRIGUES – OR JP AS HE IS KNOWN IN HIS INTERNATIONAL CAREER – INKED HIS FIRST PROFESSIONAL TATTOO AT 19 YEARS OLD.
BORN IN RIO DE JANEIRO, JP WAS EARLY DRAWN TO THE ARTS, WITH A GREAT PASSION FOR MUSIC AND PAINTING. JP FOUND IN TATTOO THE ULTIMATE VEHICLE FOR EXPRESSING HIS LOVE FOR CREATING, WHILE DEVELOPING THE EVER-IMPORTANT HUMAN CONNECTION THAT FUELS HIS SOUL AND INSPIRES HIS ART.
A LIFELONG STUDENT OF THE GREAT WORKS IN JAPANESE TATTOOING AND MONOCHROMATIC TRIBAL DESIGNS, JP HAS TRAVELLED THE GLOBE COLLABORATING WITH RENOWNED ARTISTS FROM TATTOO’S VARIOUS SCHOOLS, ALWAYS SEEKING A FINE BALANCE OF THE TRADITIONAL AND THE CONTEMPORARY.
JP’S COMBINED LIFE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES CULMINATED IN ACQUA SANTA TATTOO, PRIVATE STUDIOS LOCATED IN NEW YORK AND RIO DE JANEIRO. ENVISIONED AS A TEMPLE FOR ALL WHO HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY THE ART OF TATTOO, ACQUA SANTA IS ABOVE ALL A PLACE TO CREATE NEW MEMORIES, AS VIVID AND LASTING AS IF THEY HAD BEEN INKED ONTO ONE’S SKIN.
NAMED IN 2010 AMONG THE TOP 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL BRAZILIANS IN NEW YORK BY VOGUE MAGAZINE, JP HAS RECEIVED OVER 20 AWARDS FROM SOME OF THE MOST REPUTABLE CONVENTIONS IN THE WORLD, INCLUDING NEW YORK, BARCELONA, WASHINGTON D.C., ATLANTIC CITY AND ROCHESTER.
JOÃO PAULO’S WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED INTERNATIONALLY IN OVER 30 TATTOO PUBLICATIONS, FROM THE UNITED STATES TO NEW ZEALAND.
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