Born in Belo Horizonte, she went to the Amazon with her family when she was still a girl, and in 1982 chose to live and work in Belém (PA). During her degree in Social Communication (UFPa), she discovered photography and chose photojournalism to portray the daily life of workers, mostly migrants, who live on the margins of large exploitation projects and roads in the Amazon, mainly on the Belém-Brasília and Transamazon highways. In her journey, she also collects dreams and life stories of the people she meets on these roads.