VALUES
Of the union of a scriptwriter and a documentary photographer comes the idea of founding an audiovisual agency focused mainly on creativity.
Studio 291 emerges with a main goal: to unite the universe of visual narrative and creative storytelling.
We want our clients to tell their stories in an original way, using emotion to get closer to their audience, while their message is conveyed in a professional and striking way.
VISION
The eyes are a mirror. They reflect ourselves at the same time that they reveal to us a new angle, impossible to be reached without the help of someone else.
It is the gaze of the other that reveals to us a new image of ourselves.
Getting really close to someone takes place through the gaze, from the moment that the beauty of this other reveals itself as a movement of reflection inward; it is the enigmatic image of the other that leads me to discover the unusual of each one of us, bringing to light what we all share of more inherent.
Both art and documentary are capable of doing this: deconstructing crystallized and dehumanized narratives, and intriguing the investigative gaze that moves us towards the other.
OUR HISTORY
Meet the team
MARIANA RAMOS
SCRIPTWRITER + WRITER
Mariana works on the development of projects for Studio 291, contributing with art direction, research and content production, script and creative storytelling. She has an extensive background as a Portuguese Language and Brazilian Literature teacher, having worked as a Higher and Secondary Education teacher in China, Costa Rica, England and Argentina. She has a degree and a master's degree in Arts from UFRJ. She is an award-winning writer by the Ministry of Culture (2018 and 2022) and published by Grupo Editorial Record, and also produces scripts for Cinema, TV and Theater.
DIEGO HERCULANO
PHOTOGRAPHER + VIDEOMAKER
Professional photographer for almost 20 years with extensive national and international experience in the editorial market of photojournalism and advertising. In China, besides being a freelance photojournalist, he worked with fashion, product and corporate photography, providing image and communication consulting for companies focused on the international market. He worked and works as a freelancer for several national and international media outlets, such as Folha de São Paulo, O Globo, El País and Associated Press Agency, Agence France-Presse, Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Redux Pictures.
The inspiration for the number 291
291 is the name by which a famous art gallery became popularly known by artists and art lovers around the world. Located in Manhattan, in the building number 291 of the also famous 5th Avenue, in New York City, the gallery had a brief but intense life - from 1905 to 1917.
Officially called Little Galleries of the Photo Secession, the original name it carried in English, it was founded and managed by the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Gallery 291 became famous and iconic mainly for one reason: the exhibitions that took place there helped to bring photography to the same artistic category as painting and sculpture.
This feat was crucial for the visual arts and changed the course of photography history in the United States and the world.
A LITTLE OF THE HISTORY OF GALLERY 291, FOUNDED IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Exhibition of Gertrude Kasebier and Clarence H. at 291, in 1906 (published in Camera Work, No. 14, 1906)
