Portfolio - world photographer by Cedric Vilella

🖼 "I've been a globetrotter for more than 20 years and I have visited 50 countries + lived in a few of them. I enjoyed taking pics from my trips about nature, landscapes, and people. I keep developing my skills in Photography and as a videomaker. I'm a nomad from my dad's family. Jumping from place to place is registered in my DNA. Sharing my soul, my eyes and my heart can feel all the way long is a grateful vibe. I love sharing our common passions with friends or unknown people. Welcome to my world. " ❓Who or what influenced you as a photographer the most at the beginning of your journey? Tell us about your journey. 🗣 Some people I met who couldn't travel as I do ask me to take more pictures to show all my destinations. I paid more attention to the beauty of landscapes, the people, and the lifestyle of all my travels ❓How did you start your professional career and how did you come to that? 🗣 I did start step by step before 2012 by helping professional editors to organize groups for videos and photos promotions. Last 2012 I built a project of going traveling in 7 countries, 2 continents for 7 month. I was in charge of recording all the travel with a GoPro, and my professional friend did the editing. Just after this experience, I pushed myself to learn how to do editing and production. I did my first projects as a professional in videos and photos for a French combat Academy. About pictures, it's my first hobby as I travel all around the world. Besides my hobby, I used my pictures to promote myself and it helped me show my work to bring new clients. ❓What hardware and software tools are you using at your workspace and why? 🗣 I use Photoshop and Lightroom, it's practical to use and has many good options. ❓What does Photography mean to you, and what motivates you? 🗣 Photography is a way of giving people my emotions I feel at the moment of the capture. It's also a way of showing the beauty of life when I travel around the world. It helps me promote my classes of combat or do promotion for any travel organizations I do. One great motivation for a few years is to take more time to observe my environment anywhere I am. I found out that since I take more of my time, I do see much more beautiful scenarios around me. Working on good composition is also a good satisfaction and sharing my lifestyle as a nomad is very special. ❓What was your most challenging project so far and why? 🗣 My most challenging project could be working for travel agencies and taking beautiful pictures at any destination. Nature, people, animals, and lifestyle are fascinating. As well, I would love to expose my pictures and speak of my experiences around the world. I've been to over 50 countries in my young life, and I have many good pictures of some countries. ❓What was the most important skill that you learned, and how does it help you now? 🗣 I've learned how to compose a picture and how to give more emotions, I can see a lot of difference in my last pictures. It's really nice and pleasant to be more technical. ❓What is your dream project or art direction you're starving to try in the next 10 years? 🗣 With professional friends who follow my adventures worldwide, we built a martial arts and self-defense project in 15 countries. It's very interesting, and it resumes my 22 years of experience and research in combat, martial arts and self-defense. Besides this project, I would love to get a contract for any missions for taking the most beautiful pictures in more countries. ❓Can you tell us about a personal or professional project you are proud of? 🗣 I'm proud of the martial arts and self-project from last 2013. I was totally new into videos, mainly to film. I learned the basics in a few weeks before traveling with my professional friend. Seven months of non-stop filming of lovely images in the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil. I'm proud of my gallery of pictures from all around the world. ❓Do you have any passion projects you're working on or plan to start? 🗣 I'm working on building travel holidays in Bahia, Brazil. My photos that I took in Bahia this year are helping me with the presentation. I have a few different packages to create for this destination with the idea of bringing little groups. The idea is to build more packages for other destinations with different groups of people.