alex batista

(são paulo, 1985) is a photographer and visual artist based in são paulo. he began his career in 2007 as a photography assistant, working for almost five years in an advertising photography studio before pursuing an independent career. alongside his commissioned work, he developed a personal research practice in fotografia de rua, recording the spontaneous collaboration between man, the city, and nature. ephemeral places and situations, many already extinct or transformed weeks after being photographed. more recently, he has expanded his research beyond formal photography, incorporating painting as a central axis in works such as the series síntese and paisagem original, while also exploring rephotography in práticas sexuais and three-dimensionality in paisagem vertical, a series that materializes objects from the textures and signs he obsessively observes in his daily urban life.