It was through her studies in image theory during her history degree in southern Brazil that Tanara Stuermer discovered the documentary power of photography. She began taking photographs in 2009 and developed an interest in street photography, exploring in her images moments of life and solitude in Rio de Janeiro, the city where she has lived since 2007. Later, she turned to conceptual photography and developed the series Interferências, between Rio and Paris, featuring images that flirt with abstraction and are captured through the interference of plastic material to document the reality of contemporary human relationships.

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Still using interference, she now challenges some of photography’s limits with the materiality of superimposed prints to examine the movements and possibilities within Rio’s beach soccer scene in the series “Altinha.” 

Her work is part of the Un fonds photographique brésilien collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale Française and the Joaquim Paiva Collection at MAM Rio - Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro .

 

Winner of the 2023 FotoRio Revelation Award and finalist for the 2024 InCadaqués Open Call and the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards , she is represented by Galerie du Passage Pierre Passebon in Paris, France.