Brazilian photographer in the international advertising and fashion industries, also known for his books of artistic pictures and celebrity portraits.
His father, Rubens Teixeira Scavone, was a jurist, writer and modernist photographer. His grandmother was the novelist, Maria de Lourdes Teixeira, whose second husband was the writer and art critic José Geraldo Vieira.
At the age of 16, he was an assistant to the Catalan modernist photographer Marcel Giró in his advertising photography studio in São Paulo. He lived in London between 1972 and 1976 (with a trip back to Brazil in 1974) where he studied at the Faculty of Photography at Ealing Art College (University of West London).
Back in Brazil in 1977, he opened a studio in São Paulo, and became one of the greatest exponents in the Brazilian advertising photography scene. His first solo exhibition took place in 1982 at the São Paulo Museum of Art, MASP. He returned to live and photograph professionally in Europe in the 1990s, centred on London and Lisbon, where his work flourished. He then published his first book E Entre a Sombra e a Luz, a journey through the world, the intimate and the geographical, an encounter of text and image with the Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi. His second book, Luz Invisível, with text by the writer Luiz Fernando Verissimo, features his portraits of celebrities.
His book Viagem à Liberdade (2008) featuring portraits of the Japanese neighbourhood of São Paulo was chosen to honour the hundred years of Japanese immigration to Brazil by National Geographic magazine and was awarded the title of the best article produced outside the USA, and one of his images was chosen as one of the 10 most important published by the magazine in Brazil.
He also shot photographs for the Louis Vuitton portrait book, Rebounds (Paris, 1999). His advertising photographs were awarded the Golden Lion in Cannes and the Clio Awards, Grand Clio, in New York.
Link to Wikipedia biography (Portuguese)