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It was through studying image theory during her history studies in southern Brazil that Tanara Stuermer discovered the documentary power of photography. She started photographing in 2009 and became interested in street photography, exploring moments of life and loneliness in Rio de Janeiro, the city where she has lived for 17 years. She then turned to author photography and developed images that flirt with abstraction: most are captured through the interference of plastic material (so common in the pandemic world) to document the reality of contemporary human relationships.

Still using interference, she now challenges some limits of photography with the materiality of superimposed prints, to examine the movements and their possibilities within Rio's beach football in the series "Altinha". Her work is part of the Un fonds photographique brésilien collection at the Bibliothèque Nationale Française.

​Winner of the 2023 FotoRio Revelation Award and finalist of the 2024 InCadaqués Open Call, she is represented by Galerie du Passage Pierre Passebon in Paris, France.