The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Revisited) (2018)

In 1940, John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts made an expedition looking for unknown animals that lived in the tide pools by the coast of the Sea of Cortez. Equipped with maps, tide tables, and all sorts of scientific devices, they chased the sea when it retreated, and collected living remnants of its presence before it changed its mind, and again, and decided to advance.

The tides, waves and uncertainties were the compasses of a journey that is now revisited, from dry land, from far away, through the sky. If they were looking for small lifeforms that remained when the sea was gone, I search for the endless landscapes and thoughts that take shape as the sea seems to foolishly try to find its place.

In this project I combine small texts, poems, photographs and images from Google Earth, vintage books and maps. Through the multiplicity of media, I try to represent the plurality of the sea: the diversity of tones, winds, waves and life that it contains, but that can only be accessed from the outside.

The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Revisited) (2019)

Capa dura

The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Revisited) is a book project developed as part of the homonymous artistic research. In it, the artist presents almost all the work developed throughout the process, combining satellite images, maps, photographs, poems, short texts and extracts from Steinbeck's diary.


The book dummy, yet unpublished, was completed in 2018 on the occasion of the Porto Alegre Photography Festival (FestFoto POA), where the work earned the artist a grant for the 2020 Houston Fotofest. Since then, the dummy is printed on demand for the dissemination of the project and for submission to festivals and awards.

In Between Pacific Tides (2019)

In Between Pacific Tides is a booklet developed as part of The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Revisited) project and published by Austral in 2019 as part of a crowdfounding campaign to finance 4 international trips related to Parallel and the Houston Fotofest.


The first edition was printed by hand in a print run of 200 copies that can be purchased directly from the artist or in specialized bookstores such as Lovely House (in São Paulo) and Mai Mano Konyvesbolt (in Budapest).


ISBN: 978-65-80992-00-3