I believe still images can connect people from one part of the world to another. They can challenge the way we perceive ourselves in the world. I want to tell stories that give protagonism to the anonymous; to bring the focus point of my camera to the singular stories that make us connect and understand a bit more of the bigger picture. Sometimes we need to blur the background to highlight the details of particular stories in the hope of better understanding and transforming the whole.

Ana was born in Lisbon and has lived in Berlin since 2020, but has also migrated to England in the past. In her photography, she seeks to tell stories that explore human complexity.  Her personal projects comprise a range that varies from themes such as love and mourning to everyday problems that relate to the condition and human rights.

Her photographic journey emerged mainly in travels through Europe, Asia and Latin America, but it was experiencing the Covid-19 Pandemic that gave name to the passion for documentary photography and environmental portrait, through which she seeks to tell stories of human, sociopolitical and cultural interest.

In her commercial work, Ana is a photographer of events, performances and is also available for personal or family shoots in a photojournalistic/documentary style, which tends not to be posed.

An equally important curiosity that underpins her way of seeing life behind the lens is that Ana has a degree in Nursing since 2010 and has worked mostly in Intensive Care Units.  Looking at others based on their human condition, above all, is also a legacy of this professional and life experience, which defines much of her relationship with the subject of her photos.