Career

Considered to be an excellent photographer of landscapes, he took the landscapes that illustrated the Guia de Petrópolis (Petrópolis Guide) of 1885, and also photographed a panorama with a circular perspective of 360° of the city of Petrópolis, in 1898. He inherited the job of his father, Karl Ernst Papf, who came to Brazil in 1867 together with the photographer Alberto Henschel.