Through Every Pore is the first book released by Sandra Santos, and it gathers works produced from 1988, year in which the artist started her research with textures, to 2002. Sandra had the difficult task of selecting for publication only fifty out of hundreds of photos collected during that period, some already shown in the exhibitions, but most of them never put on public display.
Since then, she has been perfecting her art. Grasping, with attention, rocks, sand, cliffs, water, tree trunks, disintegrating them into abstract, multiple-sense images; of her total authorship, Sandra transforms her photographs into almost – painting, almost-Monet. And extracts, without the use of filters or other such resources, textures, colours, forms, light and shadows from Nature that, according to the artist, inspires her "every time, all the time".
With the aim of deepening her research, Sandra Santos travelled all over Brazil. Searching for new and intriguing textures, she focused the 28-80 lens of her (Pentax) camera on natural elements from different landscapes. The photographs which compose this book were taken in Fernando de Noronha (PE), Maracajaú (RN), Pipa (RN), Jericoacoara (CE), Chapada Diamantina(BA), Florianópolis (SC), and Penedo (RJ), and reveal, as a whole, images of a world that the absent-minded, sometimes blind, human gaze is incapable of noticing without the intervention of the author’s intuitive and over sensitive art.
Sandra was given her first Kodak camera at five, but her interest in photography came only at 14. She studied photography at "Escola Panamericana de Arte" and at "Focus", both in São Paulo. She produced hand-crafted postcards, distributed in bookshops. And she has already shown her work in some exhibitions: "VER", in 1991, at Galeria Alhambra, "Tessituras", in 1992, at Centro de Cultura Patrícia Galvão, both in Santos; "Retro-Verso", in 2001, at Pinacoteca Benedito Calixto, in Santos, and at Salão Caramelo, at USP, University of São Paulo.
Besides that, she did photographic essays on Maui Island (Hawaii), in 1999 and on Itatiaia (Rio de Janeiro), in 2000.
She also participated in the 9th Biennial of Visual Arts of Santos with the works "Solstices I, II and III", in 2004.
Born in Santos, on the coast of São Paulo, Sandra, at 40, reveals herself "totally free to create". By catching the instant, she not only captures it for eternity, but also transforms it. And, photographed by Sandra, a rock is no longer just a rock. It becomes art.

Abbreviations of Brazilian States
BA: Bahia - CE: Ceará - ES: Espírito Santo - PE: Pernambuco - RJ: Rio de Janeiro - RN: Rio Grande do Norte - SC: Santa Catarina.