Goodbye, "Pitti".

Portrait of Adriana "Pitti" Pittigliani published by german magazine Neon.

My dearest friend Adriana Pittigliani has passed away this morning at the age of 46. Unfortunately she didn't get to win the war against cancer. "Pitti", as she was known among her friends, was one of the most influentials and creatives Brazilian photographers since late 80's and during the whole 90's, taking great pictures of over 200 hundred magazine covers like Sui Generis (the first gay oriented Brazilian magazine), over 300 hundred Cd's covers of many of the greatest names of MPB ("Música Popular Brasileira") , books, and so on. Genial and visionary she gave up of her very well established career at the age of 44 to become the brain and the heart of CARIOCA FUNK CLUBE, a multimidia project created to spread out Funk Carioca to the world and support its artists. One of them, Sany Pitbull, became the biggest name of CFC and his work together with Pitti came into an increadible symbiosis, which took Sany and his magic MPC to four big european tours in only a year and a half (!!!), among other things. Crazy, supportive, talkative and smart, "Pitti", with her unforgettable Aristotle's Rhetoric, was generous enough to introduce, connect, communicate and help lot's of people to her "Knowledgeland" by sharing ideas, ways and new conceptions about the present and the future of the Funk Carioca movement. She believed and supported my documentary "City of Funk" since the very beginning of the project, opening doors and showing me new possibilities about this theme. Now Pitti is gone, but her passion, vision and big heart will be forever alive in our hearts. Rest in peace, my lovely friend. Respect!

More of "Pitti":

Pitti + Pitibull: Adriana and Sany, Rio de Janeiro, 2007.


Sabrina Fidalgo by Adriana Pittigliani, Berlin, 2006.