"Before I Go" (2018 - ongoing) is a project about the “Vale dos Pinheiros”, a housing complex that I grew up and lived in for 21 years. The interest in documenting the condominium arose from reflection about the imagery one has of the peripheral and distant areas, their landscapes, and consequently their inhabitants. Over the years I realized that documenting the condominium had much less to do with a "photographic catalog" of the people and the place (as I did in the beginning, trying to photograph a good part of the almost 7 thousand residents), and more to do with myself, with my relationship with the place and the transition to adult life. Throughout the development of the work, a deeper interest in children, teenagers, and young people grew, especially my neighbors. Looking more closely at children and adolescents and their universe, I realized the obvious: we carry throughout our adult lives issues intrinsic to this time, and the construction of our identity is deeply rooted in the place and environment where we grow up. I am interested in this transition between childhood, youth and adulthood, the loss of a certain innocence and allowance for enchantment, and these movements over time; a yearning, an energy and a restlessness, a bit of what dwells in me that I find in them and through them persists in me.