Behindthecameras.
My name is Gabriel. For those who follow the Lençóis closely, I am known as Falcão. Six years filming, directing and capturing stories in the most surreal white-dune desert in Brazil.
From photography to cinema in the dunes.
I started in photography in 2020, in Santo Amaro do Maranhão. What began as a hobby became a profession when I realized my eye had something different: I didn't want to record scenes, I wanted to build them.
The Lençóis chose me before I chose them. I grew up looking at those dunes and, when I got my first serious camera, that is where I wanted to test how far it could go. That is where I learned to wait for the light, to read the wind, to understand that the best shot comes from someone who truly knows the place.
In 2023, the drone came as a natural extension of my work. Filming from above changed everything: I was able to show the scale, the silence, the beautiful solitude of that landscape that no photo can fully capture.
Today I photograph couples, families and travelers from all over Brazil and other countries. Every delivery has its own script, direction and post-production. In the end, you walk away with a short film you'll replay ten years from now and still feel the wind, the light and the warm sand of that day.
I don't film couples. I film the eve of a life that is about to begin. Every day in the Lençóis is unrepeatable: light shifts every 10 minutes, the lagoon changes every season, the wind draws the dune in a new way. My role is to arrive before the unrepeatable and catch it mid-air.