I'm brazilian, born and living in Rio de Janeiro, photographer by vocation and devotion.

  My commitment with this life began in 1981. Since then, the sky became my natural habitat. I grew up watching the deep blue,  looking for the amazing flying machines. And I decided that I should dedicate at least part of my life to this passion. Because of  that I discovered another passion, photography, which turned to be as important as the first one. I bought my first camera at the  age of 14, to record my impressions about the steel birds. With that I improved my feeling and pointed to other themes, without  losing the main focus. And the beginning of my real commitment to aviation was also the beginning of my commitment to  photography.

  In the year 2001 I was invited to cooperate as a freelancer with the brand new brazilian aviation magazine Revista ASAS, today  one of the most important magazines of the country. This opportunity made me open my eyes to the need of really gets into  photography. I went deep inside in the aviation area, got into the market and published (and still publish) in the magazine a lot of  written and picture works, fine tuning my skills of writing and taking pictures in this trade.

  Parallel with my work at Revista ASAS, in the year 2004, gathered with some friends, I started a project which the objective was  bring to the public reliable and interesting information about the defense and military areas in general. The Base Militar Web  Magazine is today a reference on internet, in Brasil and abroad, in the subjects that involve the armed forces and the national and  international defense policies.

  That experience allowed me to capture thousands of pictures, produced through a dozen of flight hours and days at sea, in  airports and several military units, during airshows, in exercises with the Brazilian Air Force and the Brazilian Navy, in places that  come from south to north of the country, in Haiti, at national and international waters of the South Atlantic Ocean and the  Caribean Sea, and inside airplanes and ships of a variety of countries.

  Today, although I still walking in aviation, I keep pointing my lenses to other paths, other horizons. And in those horizons I apply  what I learned during these years, as deeply and seriously as I treat the ideal that brought me to this life called Photography.

Carlos Filipe Operti