Human potential delights and impresses me. Emotions, sorrows, joys, overcoming... This human ‘thing’ is what got me painting people.”

Monica Mendes

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” 

Dorothea Lange

“Today everything exists to end in
a photograph.” 

Susan Sontag

“Your first 10,000 photographs
are your worst.” 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Portfolio

"Human potential delights and impresses me.
Emotions, sorrows, joys, overcoming...
This human ‘thing’ is what got me painting people.”

Monica Mendes