The students were Alyson Luiz, who dreams about being a documentary war photographer, Daniel Lacerda, a veteran in concert works. He has already been to another of my courses. Great to see him again.

Marcus Mota and Toninho Mota are brothers. Maquinhos runs one of the fines design agencies around, Quartel Design, where he works mostly with clients from the music scene. Toninho seeks to venture in the wedding photography field.

Pedro Celso is in the moment of the first discoveries of his passion for photography and already shows a very peculiar look for the thing.

Ana Slika, a dear friend, who has some wonderful experimental work that gets cooler each day.

The workshop started early, 8am. Ended almost 7pm. At the studio, we shot the beautiful Luanda. She charmed everyone and made the whole learning process a lot easier. Thanks, Luanda.

The success of the workshop was possible due to the touch of three special girls. Priscila, who took care of Luanda’s hair and make-up. Flavinha, as usual, giving me the mos helpful hand at the studio and also doing some of these making of shots.

And, of course, Paulinha, who is the real boss of us all and made everything perfect. You have no idea of the coffee-break we had. I only missed champagne. Not to mentions the students material, that even included a chocolate bar. Thanks, Paulinha.

And a side note thanks to Manu, who called every 15 minutes to check if everything was running smoothly. Thanks, Manu.

The next workshop is most likely happening in April. Stay tuned. And if you want to take this workshop to your country, get in touch with us.

The client’s interference in the design is, usually, a disaster. For a very simple reason: the designer is the one who understands design. And, presumably, that was the reason why he was hired in the first place. The professional designer (the good one) spends most of his life studying. There’s a technical and coherent reason why he aligns elements a certain way or chooses a specific color scheme. He knows what he’s doing.

The client will always have the right to make suggestions or fail a design piece. But the less he interferes in the creation, the better for his own image. To hire a designer and tell him what to do is like calling a 17th century baroque painter to give a hand on the garage wall.