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QUARTEIRÃO DAS CARDOSAS | photos by Alda João

May 28, 2014

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Architect and Photographer.

I'm all about Architecture, Design, Travel and Photography, both digital and analog.

In this blog you'll find a little bit of what I do as an Architecture Photographer, as well as side projects I'm working on.

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