Fidelio Faustino Ferrier-Olivieira

Excited to share that I am part of the shortlist of the top 100 artists from the @photovogue ‘Latin America Panorama’. 🫶🏾 On show at the 9th edition of the PhotoVogue Festival in Milan at Base Milano from March 6th to 9th, 2025. Thanks to @alessiaglaviano @photovogue

Santino, 2023

So excited to announce ‘TAPSEI’, my first ever solo exhibition, which will be held on the GVB ferry Amsterdam Central Station. Running September 29th - November 29th in collaboration with @foam_amsterdam @amsterdamferryfestival @square.amsterdam . This exhibition serves as a contemporary response to the historical exhibition Yere Mi Sten by Augusta Curiel.⠀ — ⠀ My work draws on memory, spirituality, and imagination, deeply rooted in the Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous experience. With these analogue portraits, I explore feelings of nostalgia and belonging. In this exhibition, I portray the Surinamese Amazon and its people in moments of quiet intimacy. These portraits are closely connected to the everyday, from a perspective grounded in lived experience. ‘Tapsei’ is a word from Sranantongo that literally means ‘upwards’. In the context of Suriname’s interior, it also refers to a way of orienting oneself, navigation through landscape, memory, and community. In everyday usage, ‘tapsei’ is also commonly used as a term for the Surinamese interior itself. ⠀⠀⠀ Joel, 2025 Klaaskreek, Suriname. Special thanks to @denn_modelagency

06:30PM, sunset. Somewhere on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

For @fillingpieces Spring/Summer ‘26 Breaking Bread in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Photographer: @fideliofaustino Production: @sophiekemperman @yunobi Styling: @luciasouzzs @ruanallexander Location: @cafepretotattoo Model: @mizcibien Model: @cristiansanntos Model: @mano.amaro Model: @mt_piloto244 Model: @txrugo

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Joel wears @prada @driesvannoten @walesbonner @fillingpieces and Petje wears @celine @maisonvalentino and Gauri wears @chloe for Wan Pipel Issue 05: Desire! Desire! Desire! @dazedmiddleeast Big thanks to @esmeralda__tan @ahmadaswaid @marligger @da.o.ud @omaimasss @fatimamouradd @sarraalayyan @sophiekemperman @officialdenn_ @mikklz @joel_wielingen_

Joel wears @prada @driesvannoten @walesbonner @fillingpieces and Petje wears @celine @maisonvalentino for Wan Pipel Issue 05: Desire! Desire! Desire! @dazedmiddleeast Big thanks to @esmeralda__tan @ahmadaswaid @marligger @da.o.ud @omaimasss @fatimamouradd @sarraalayyan @sophiekemperman @officialdenn_ @mikklz @joel_wielingen_

Landscapes from the Amazonia for Wan Pipel for Issue 05: Desire! Desire! Desire! @dazedmiddleeast .

Joel Wielingen wearing @miumiu for Wan Pipel in Issue 05: Desire! Desire! Desire! @dazedmiddleeast Big thanks to @esmeralda__tan @ahmadaswaid @marligger @da.o.ud @omaimasss @fatimamouradd @sarraalayyan @sophiekemperman @officialdenn_ @mikklz @joel_wielingen_

Wan Pipel for Issue 05: Desire! Desire! Desire! @dazedmiddleeast . An editorial that felt personal in every way. Same intention, same love behind it. The kind of work you hope finds you. Big thanks to @esmeralda__tan @ahmadaswaid @marligger @da.o.ud @omaimasss @fatimamouradd @sarraalayyan @sophiekemperman @officialdenn_ @mikklz

Shot for Issue 05: Desire! Desire! Desire!, Wan Pipel is a portrait of Suriname shaped by Indigenous, African, Indian, Javanese, Chinese, and European histories living across faith, culture, and land, and the tension of what comes next as oil wealth, diasporic return, and the long shadow of colonialism begin to reshape its future Words @mikklz Tap our link in bio for the full story 🔗 Photography @fideliofaustino Concept and styling @esmeralda__tan Producer @sophiekemperman Production assistant @officialdenn_ Styling assistants @shirasili and @lucasdiaz_ Cast @an.sje @joel_wielingen_ @moonyyang08_ @gauridevim , Patrick Moesan, DIëlric Macnack, Robin Anoewaritja, Zhi Xiao Yang. Carmen Riedewald Adely