Moon, sky & surreal photography · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Surreal photographs built around the real Moon and sky. Every element is photographed on location, then combined by hand. No AI.
Featured in The Times, Metro and the Daily Mirror Licensed by Sanitas (Switzerland) and Localiza (Brazil) Shared by Instagram pages with 100M+ followers
The Moon series
A selection from a larger archive. Every image has a reference code: quote it when you ask about a license.
Sky & surreal
Skies, clouds and impossible scenes, made the same way: photographed on location and combined by hand.
Full archive
This page shows 34 images. The full archive has more than 120, across both series, plus new work every year. Ask for the complete catalogue.
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Every element is photographed. Nothing is generated.
Ideas come from walking the countryside, looking at settings and everyday objects. This is the slowest part of the work.
The scene is staged and shot alone, with a tripod and a timer. The Moon is photographed in the same location, usually in the first minutes after it rises, when it looks largest.
The photographs are combined and finished by hand into one image. Every license states that the image is a photo composite.
About
Daniel is from Cataguases, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and lives in Rio de Janeiro. He began the series in 2020, during the pandemic, while working remotely from his parents' farm in the countryside, far from city light.
He works alone. He stages, shoots and edits every image himself, and the collection has grown every year since. Alongside the Moon series, he makes surreal images of sky and landscape.
“Going to the Moon is an impossible dream. But through art, I can take people there with me.”Daniel Antoniol, Daily Star, 2022
Published & featured
Press in more than ten countries since 2022, and shared by some of the largest pages on Instagram. Below: the 2026 Sanitas book from Switzerland and two British newspapers from October 2022.
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