Nicole Pandolfo was born in Guaporé, a small city in the country of Rio Grande do Sul, south of Brazil. When she was 15-year-old, she moved to Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, specially to finish High School and, after that, to go to the University. In 2007 she started her Journalism degree at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. It was in her first photojournalism class that she discovered a passion for photography. So, it became part of her daily routine. Today, she is almost finishing the journalism degree course and she is working in the Multimedia Production Centre, at the University. Meanwhile, Nicole is working on her final paper, for which she chose photo documentary as the theme.