According his own words "I´m a a natve from Rio de Janeiro and Amsterdam". And he has sent me some cool exclusive pics to share with my World of Models family. Ladies and gentlemen, there comes the phototgrapher Felix Dasilva and here´s his first part interview. Enjoy it!

I live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I love the city, It is a well preserved historical monuments with lots of the downtown buildings dating from the late 1600's and early 1700's . One of the best things about Amsterdam is that it breathes freedom and most people that come to Amsterdam feel that right in the air. My interest in photography started at a very early age. In fact I was already committed to photography by the age of 3. I always had more pictures of my friends than they had of themselves and the funny thing is that my main interest in photography has always been the human element for some reason. But it was always a hobby until approximately 10 years ago when I quit my well paid "Image Consultant Job" and decided to go for photography on a professional capacity. I honestly don't know how to define my style, I will leave that to you. Some fashion photographers have always played a big influence in me. Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts, in more modern times Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel and Ellen von Unwerth have been my main inspirations.

The Digital era: a feeling of nostalgia

The digital era changed everything about photography. Before if one wanted to correct a picture it had to be with a pencil right in the printed photo, no deleting and starting over without any consequences. Also we could not see the results right away, we had to rely more in our instincts, so we had to be more intuitive. But the digital era brought in me a feeling of nostagia, perhaps that's why I am so reluctant to present pictures that skin looks like plastic and has no pores because they have been all taken out in photoshop. I like beautiful people looking like beautiful people, not looking like beautiful plastic dolls

The Projects and the Models

The projects that I am currently involved with I prefer to leave it out of the interview for now, but just recently I just finished a project called Sydney's Calling, which just came in print in the UK based Schon Magazine. A bunch of mermaids in the beach. The picture was taken in Sydney, Australia and it is a joint project sponsored by Nineteen74 and Factory311. The models that I have worked with. They are many. Ana Beatriz Barros, Adriana Lima, Caroline Trentini, Isabeli, Fontana, Doutzen Kroes, Caroline Ribeiro, Caroline Francischini, Fernanda Tavares, etc. But there are many more that I love working with. All over the world. In all continents. I have been very fortunate in getting models that love doing what they do, their professionalism. The most important about a model in my opinion is the ability to act. To give me the moment for me to capture instead of having to direct and re-direct every movement of the model

Worldwide economic crisis on the fashion photography: "It also opened markets that before were more difficult"

The market for fashion photography will not change. As long as there is fashion there will be fashion photography because photography enhances fashion. It goes without saying. As to the crisis, of course if affected us, but it also opened markets that before were more difficult. And I think it has to do with the fact that a lot of the time wasters had to leave, so the real creative minds were able to brainstorm and show results. The last two years have been really maturing to me as to photography, almost like a wake-up call. I like the new me and how I am coming out of it.

Contact info: Capa Management

To be continued