About

After graduating in Business Administration in São Paulo, Octavio Campos Salles started to work with one of his passions at the time, fly fishing. During 8 years he organized custom fly fishing trips to brazilians and foreigners at the dark water tributaries of the mighty Rio Negro, in the Amazon Rainforest. During this time he experienced first-hand the lifestyle of the traditional remote villages and the true untouched nature of the largest tropical rainforest in the world.

The transition to photography was something natural. It first came from the need and will to register the remote places he visited with frequency. Today Octavio works full time with photography, such as in assignments for national and international magazines and editors, like National Geographic Books, Birder’s World and Eurobike, besides many commercial and institutional jobs with leader businesses in their areas, like Toyota do Brasil, Atech, Hotel Villas del Sol y Mar, Hotel Villa Bebek, etc. His photos have been published by a number of books and regional/wildlife guides, by Ibama, Caixa Economica Federal, etc. Recently Octavio has also turned his experience guiding trips in the Amazon to special photography tours, such as to the Pantanal, a true wildlife paradise in the heart of South America.

In 2007, during a long expedition to the Serra do Aracá, a very remote and virtually unknown tepui in extreme North Amazon, Octavio photographed for the first time in nature a rare endemic birds of the tepuis, the Caura Antbird. With this photo he won 1st. prize in the major bird photography contest in Brazil, the Avistar/Itaú.

Octavio lives in Campinas, near São Paulo, with his wife and kid.