Hi! My name is Aline Machado, I am a photographer and film student in the city of Joinville, located in the south of Brazil. Photography has always been very present in my life and in my family, my great-grandmother was a photographer, as well as my father, Peninha Machado, and my older brother Jaime Machado (known as Pena Filho).
My father was born in 1953 and became a photographer in the 1970s, and since then he has worked as a photo reporter for several newspapers in the city. Photography has always been a challenge for him because as a young man he was diagnosed with a serious vision problem, keratoconus, and was one of the first people in my city to receive a corneal transplant.
When I was born, in 1997, my father already worked as a freelance photographer photographing business events, but he already collected some authorial exhibitions because that was always his greatest passion.
In 2007, at the Joinville Dance Festival (one of the biggest dance festivals in Brazil, and even worldwide), my father had the idea to photograph the presentations using low exposure. He always photographed the festivals using the philosophy of Henri Cartier-Bresson, staying alert and feeling the right moment to click the button. And so he captured incredible moments that became works of art.
My father, in partnership with the festival, held an exhibition, called Painting with Light, with these works at the festival in 2008, with the photos printed on fabric on wooden structures, as well as painting canvases.
Nowadays, my father doesn't photograph like he used to. The photographic market has lost strength with compact cameras and cell phone cameras. Today the camera belongs to me more than to him. But I commented with him about this community and he was excited about the possibility of showing his work to people from all over the world. Hope you like it!
*I did not find a report from the time, but there is a report (in Portuguese) from a more recent exhibition, in 2015, which shows my father and the type of structure where the images are printed!
https://ndmais.com.br/diversao/fotografo-peninha-machado-inaugura-exposicao-com-imagens-historicas-de-joinville-e-regiao/
(Here is the famous dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov)
