I was born in Brazil, in 1967.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My aunt paid for my piano classes while my parents paid for my guitar classes.

My idols were Burt Bacharach, Ray Conniff and The Carpenters... But I got very bored playing Bach and Mozarton the piano. I wanted to start playing the music I was in love with.

But, since I had no discipline, I picked up my camera, at the early age of fifteen and decided to become a photographer instead.

In Brazil, soon after I became twenty one, I started working for the best publications and shooting everybody I wanted. By the time I turned twenty five, I thought I need a radical change, and moved to New York, which became my home.

I remember working as a busboy and my lanlady calling me to say Interview Magazine had an assignment for me: shoot the new upcoming actor "Chris O'Donnell" for them. Since I could not wait tables, my next job was working in a porn store in the West Village named Gay Pleasures, for 5.50 hourly. Interview magazine was happy with my picture of Chris O'Donnell and my next mission was to shoot Carole King -- who serenaded to me, through the photo shoot, singing "You've got a friend". I was very happy shooting for Interview magazine, but I realized that it was more important to do my photography for my own personal reasons, instead of working for a publication...

As soon as digital photography became popular, my american mom, Barbara Miller put me through SVA -- School of Visual Arts -- so I could learn more about digital photography. Then I found a wonderful gallery, a block away from my home -- how great is that? -- "CLAMPART" who was been repping me for many years.

I like to photograph things and people for different reasons, but what I would really like is to photograph musicians whose work I am madly in love with. (Swing Out Sister, Tracey Thorn, for example) because I believe that the combo of music/photography is the most powerful form of art.

This portofolio is dedicated to those, who make New York be what it is --the city that doesn't ever stop and is constantly changing.

http://www.myspace.com/walterego_
www.clampart.com