Love to watch animals since I can remember. When I was 16 I got my first SLR camera and been photographing ever since. In 2000 I decided to try underwater photography... big "mistake": it evolved into a very addictive hobby.

Co-author of:

- "LESMAS DO MAR DO ALGARVE – GUIA DE MOLUSCOS OPISTOBRÂNQUIOS DA COSTA SUL DE PORTUGAL CONTINENTAL" - Gonçalo Calado, João Pedro Silva, ISBN 978-989-96406-2-7 (also available in English as "SEA SLUGS OF THE ALGARVE – OPISTHOBRANCH GUIDE FOR THE SOUTHERN COAST OF PORTUGAL")

The following books contain some of my photos:

- "GUIA DE ESPÉCIES SUBMARINAS - PORTUGAL - BERLENGAS" - Nuno Vasco Rodrigues, Paulo Maranhão, Pedro Oliveira, José Alberto, ISBN 978-972-8793-25-8;

- "DES LIMACES DE REVE" - Sandrine Bielecki, Gilles Cavignaux, Jean Michel Crouzet, Sylvie Grall, ISBN 978-2-7466-2698-0;

- "GUIA DE CAMPO DA FAUNA E FLORA MARINHA DE PORTUGAL" - Vasco Ferreira, ISBN 978-972-8923-60-0.

- "NUDIBRANCHI DEL MEDITERRANEO" - Egidio Trainito, Mauro Doneddu, ISBN 978-88-6520-480-1.

- "CORALLI DEL MEDITERRANEO" - Egidio Trainito, Rossella Baldacconi, ISBN 978-88-6520-786-4.

- "FIELD GUIDE TO THE SEA SLUGS OF INDIA" - Deepak Apte, Digant Desai, ISBN-13: 978-9384678036

- "DIE GIFTTIERE EUROPAS" - Wolfgang Dibiasi, ISBN-13: 978-1974200993

- "NUDIBRANQUIOS DE LA ISLA DE TARIFA" - Manuel Martínez Chacón, ISBN: 978-84-16591-03-9

- "GUÍA DE LOS MOLUSCOS MARINOS Y CONTINENTALES DEL CAMPO DE GIBRALTAR" - José Luiz Muñoz Ferrera de Castro, Jesús Sánchez Hernández, Félix Ríos, Manuel Martínez Chacón, Juan Sebastián Torres Alba, Victoriano Meneses Sores, ISBN: 97884-16591-05-3

- "ELS NUDIBRANQUIS DEL MAR CATALÀ" - Manuel Ballesteros, Miquel Pontes, Enric Madrenas - ISBN: 978-84-15885-92-4

- "A GUIDE TO MARINE MOLLUSCS OF EUROPE" - Axel Alf, Bastian Brenzinger, Gerhard Haszprunar, Michael Schrödl, Enrico Schwabe - ISBN: 978-3-948603-00-7