Gilberto Gil and family at the Barbican
Gilberto Gil, one of the most well known Brazilian music legends, and former Minister of Culture of Brazil, brought his family for an unforgettable sold out summer night at the Barbican Centre. And when I say family, I mean it: children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Gil is celebrating 80 years old and his energy on stage is contagious…
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BBC Radio1’s Big Weekend 2022.
A weekend of music in Coventry, UK. The Big Weekend was a celebration of the most listened artists of BBC Radio1, and it was a lot of fun. It was brilliant!
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Vanessa and Randerson wedding anniversary
Memories of a 20-year wedding anniversary. Vanessa and Randerson are a lovely couple with the most amazing children, family and friends. They celebrate this moment with close family members and friends in the countryside of England.
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Emily and Phil wedding day
I met Phil in the beginning of the year when he was looking for some new portraits for his new business website. We walked around The City of London on a glorious sunny morning, and we were both really pleased with the results of the images. It was lovely to receive a message from Phil a few months…
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Laura and Bárbara wedding day
A super special day for a couple saying yes to a new life together. How amazing is that? Oh yes, and we did have a wedding routemaster bus present. 🙂
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Jade and Conor wedding day
A sunny Saturday during Spring was the perfect day for Jade and Conor’s wedding. Surrounded by family and friends, the couple celebrated their love and union at the Haringey Register Office in North London. It was a lovely day and I was so happy to be able to photograph such an important moment in their…
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Marietha’s Greek Orthodox Baptism
Among all the amazing things photography brought to my life, having the chance to get to know new people and cultures is definitely the best part of it. When Marianthi first contacted me to photograph her daughter’s Greek orthodox baptism, I was super excited already. I did a bit of research online but also asked…
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Andrea and Roberta wedding day
I was invited to photograph Andrea and Roberta’s wedding by their friend, Deborah. She organised all the details for this day to be perfect – and it was. Even the weather forecast changed in their favour and Saturday had this amazing blue sky and rays of true Spring sunshine. Roberta and Andrea matched their outfit…
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Sêla Music Festival
Apart from travelling, one of the things I’m missing the most is going to a gig! Not just to enjoy the music and the brilliant artists but to photograph them. I’ve a lot of memories related to music in my life, so when I have the pleasure of photographing concerts and live music shows, I’m…
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Tica’s 80th birthday party
Birthdays are always a great time to celebrate someone’s life. Especially if that someone is celebrating 80 years old! Tica has a lovely family who has organised a couple of surprises on the day of her birthday party. Lots of laughs, happy tears, music, food and drinks. A day that everyone will remember forever that…
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Morning at the Battersea Park
Mariam and Hasan were about to move out from London after living a couple of years in town. For their family, Battersea Park was such a special place that they decided to have a last photo session there before moving out. The park is indeed an amazing place and with the lovely golden Autumn colours,…
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Ben and Kelly wedding day
2020 will mark everyone’s life for the most varied reasons. For the couple Ben and Kelly it was the year of making the relationship more than official and, despite the reception and party been postponed, they held the civil wedding in the registry office this year along with their parents and their beautiful baby boy.…
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Maternity photoshoot – Camila waiting for Isabel
I’ve met Camila through a chat group for Brazilians in London. She was in her last months of pregnancy with her second daughter and she’s asked me to photograph her family at home to keep a memory of this amazing phase of her life. The initial plan was to photograph the family at a park…
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Christmas pictures for a new family
It’s Antonio’s first Christmas and because of that, their parents, Sean and Roxana, decided to make the holiday even more special: a photo session with the family. It’s always important to have our family memories recorded and in 2020, suddenly, this became more important than ever, as many of us couldn’t see our relatives as…
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A month with a family in lockdown
During covid-19 pandemic, I spent a month with the Lyon family, just when London entered the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. I’ve had just moved to the UK and the Lyon family hosted me for a few weeks. I’ve known them for a couple of years now and they were very kind to…
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Fernanda and Guillaume countryside wedding
I met Fernanda in 2006 when we were at the University. Since then, we’ve been friends sharing the love for Journalism, travels and Friends (yes, the sitcom!). In one of her travels, she met Guillaume. It was her first time in Quebéc, Canada – his hometown. She asked Guillaume to take a picture of her,…
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Visão Noturna album recording
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days with talented professionals led by the Brazilian musician Felipe Antunes and the Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito during the recording of their album ‘Visão Noturna’. The project was sponsored by Natura Musical. The album was recorded in a very intimate and relaxed…
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Music Train
Every year in Brazil, between June and July, there is a traditional countryside celebration called “Festa Junina”. A lot of good food and music is involved, trust me. So, I’m from this very small town called Pindamonhangaba, in the countryside of São Paulo. Over there, they celebrate the date with an amazing party in a…
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Yolanda
Yolanda Eugênio, 85 years old. An accordionist, a talented cook and a big mom for many people. An energy that spreads and cheers the heart. A person that I have the honor to know. And yes, we’ve played accordion together. 🙂 Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo, Brazil, 2020.
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Two Metres Apart Portrait Project
In the Spring of 2020, during the covid-19 lockdown (part 1) in London, a diverse group of neighbours from Kennington were photographed on their doorsteps 2 metres from me – the photographer (!) They were invited to bring anything that felt important at the moment and were asked the key question: ‘What have you learned…
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Carmem and Raphael family photoshoot
Carmem and I had a friend in common who recommended my work. She and her husband Raphael needed portraits for their profiles on LinkedIn, but they also decided to photograph the family so they could create and print some memories. Simple as that. And we had a great time during that early morning photoshoot. Sometimes…
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Fernando and Niny wedding celebration
With Fernando and Niny, I first photographed their engagement party, an unforgettable moment with a lot of positive energy, good music and the couple surrounded by their loved ones. The wedding celebration came a year later, and it couldn’t be different: an amazing event where love was all over, from every detail of the ceremony…
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Circus Life
The Bremer Circus started in the city of Porto Alegre in the South Region of Brazil and they travel to several towns in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. They have around 30 people in the team and each family lives in their own motorhome. All the family members perform in the show apart from helping behind…
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People in Museums
This series started after looking at my photo archive and noticing that one of my favourite things when I visit a museum or exhibition is to play a bit with compositions. By observing how people behave in these art environments, I’ve created this little series that is still a work in progress.
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Camila Pastorelli 