DANIEL TAVEIRA
Who I have become

It was such an intensely personal experience; fare greater that I had ever imagined, revealing in every way possible. I do not mean just the fact that I discarded clothing, including watch, ring, band aid on my arm and became naked as the day I was born; I will never forget that, you allowing me to be me, allowing you to strip all my pretenses and inhibitions away in order that you could, through the eye of your camera, discovering facets of the man who I have become, not pretty in a convertible sense; but very human and real, wrinkles, veins, hollow chest, vulnerability, needy whist giving, revealing an as yet incomplete picture of the man I have become and will continue to become through a life long lived. I believe that it was more than pictures, that you also were able to go beyond the visual dimension and start to glimpse and understand the real me that exists inside the everyday old man the rest of the world sees. Stan Wild. Words from the photographed man. "Stan W.".

Author

Daniel Taveira was born in Tocantinopolis, Tocantins, Brazil. In 2010, after putting aside his Masters Degree in Finances from Fundação Getúlio Vargas, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Taveira moved to Mexico. In Mexico, he met renowned photographer Nadine Markova and became her disciple. Studying under Markova, Taveira began to pursue the “decisive instant,” which meant his lenses would capture the uniqueness of everyday moments through light, colors, forms, expressions and emotions. Taveira’s portraits are lavish depictions of humanity's diversity, his landscape and urban photographs are pristine in technique, abundant, full of colors and shapes.

Website
www.danieltaveira.com

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