Joana Vieira

Creative Statement

My mom worked in a doctor’s office for 10 year. During that time, I spent most of my afternoons off school sitting in the waiting room, scrambling through old magazines with a pair of plastic scissors in my hands, and a bunch of pictures on the floor.

I still have those pieces of paper with me, but nowadays, I tend to keep the entire magazines.

My passion is documentary photography, photojournalism, event photography. Once I have my photos, I always imagine were they would be fit, in what order, which one is the strongest and which is one is failing to represent me. I love photography and love to be picky with it! It’s just part of the fun.

To make use of my critical side and skills as a photographer and graphic designer, I decided to give it all and create Whisper Magazine, a music and art related blog with sporadic online publications. The project was launched in 2009 and It recently reached over 350 million hits.

I also worked in high-end retouching, photo recovering, brand design, rebranding, packaging, labeling, 2d game art design, character animation, shirt design, illustration and editorial design but, If you want to know more about me as a designer, please check out my Design Portfolio!

I just keep in mind that while I shoot for the top and try to catch the dream, I can always look around and choose to be the most.

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