In chronological order, I’m a medical doctor, a photographer and, now, a t-shirt and home decor maker from Brazil.
I was already in love with arts since my teenager years and I’ve tried other art expressions. I tried theater, painting, writing… “it was cool, but not really my thing”; I never dared to try music; I used to love cinema mostly for the photography. In 2013, I bought my first DSLR Canon Rebel XTi, while I was still in med school. Then I spent the next decade shooting trips and family with no ambition whatsoever. I didn’t edit or shared my pictures; I just hoarded them.
Fast forward to 2024, I bought a shiny mirrorless Canon EOS R and began to travel more and photograph more after the pandemic. In 2025, I cataloged, organized and started editing my several thousands of pictures. After studying my inedited catalog for the fisrt time and feeling as proud about them as an amateur can be, just then I began to see myself as an artist.
Finally!
I am an artist! According to myself and maybe a dozen of family-and-friends. But then I understood why some artists look a little bit off: because you identify yourself as an artist when you began to get obsessed with your art. And I love my pictures! So much that I just want everyone to see my work (it must be what moms feel about their children).
The t-shirt idea came while I was talking to a tattoo artist and he told me:
My portfolio is people, my art is alive and it walks the street.
Tacio Lobato
Then I wanted my art to also walk the street! To have a story. To be incorporated into people’s style and daily life. To be as valuable as a T-shirt can be. To be for everyone. And here we are.
Remember: each picture you find here is the register of a real moment in my life, my autobiography. Each single one of them has a story: “where is it?; when?”. And I dream with this dialogue: “oh, this t-shirt? There’s this photographer friend of mine and this picture is from our trip to…“, so I’ll tell you these stories here.
So, I’ll start this series of stories with my first and most patient model, Guga. Guga was my childhood dog, he passed away with 18 years old. He was the most human creature I’ve seen. Here I see his “deep thoughts” look he used to stare us with.
This is also an homage to my family, which have always supported me.
And this is today’s shirt!
