Laravel and Guzzle fopen(): can´t find file uploading to an server - php

Question

I´m trying to upload an image from my server to another one using an API.
I´ve uploaded to my server using native Storage facade and then, call the Guzzle function to upload the file to the other server.
The problem is that I can´t get the local of the file. Let´s see some code:
public function saveImage(Request $request)
{
// return $request;
$consorciado = Consorciado::where('id', '=', $request->consorciado_id)->first();
$documento = Documento::where('doc_id', '=', $request->id)->first();
$documento = new Documento();
$image = request()->file('f');
$documento->consorciado_id = $consorciado->id;
$documento->doc_id = $request->id;
$documento->tipo = $request->tipo;
$documento->remark = $request->remark;
$documento->idTematica = $request->idTematica;
$documento->field1 = $request->field1;
$documento->field2 = $request->field2;
$documento->field3 = $request->field3;
$documento->field4 = $request->field4;
$documento->field5 = $request->field5;
$filename = $consorciado->id . "_" . $documento->doc_id . "." . $image->getClientOriginalExtension();
$documento->nome = $filename;
// dd($doc);
// $file = fopen(Storage::disk('local') . '/' . file_get_contents($image), 'r');
// dd($file);
$client = new Client([
'base_uri' => 'http://gedocflex.com.br:8003/api/file',
]);
$response = $client->request('POST', 'http://gedocflex.com.br:8003/api/file', [
'multipart' => [
[
'name' => 'idTematica',
'contents' => '201'
],
[
'name' => 'f',
// 'contents' => $filename, file_get_contents($image)
'contents' => fopen('/' . $filename, file_get_contents($image), 'w+')
],
[
'name' => 'field1',
'contents' => '132.626.688-85'
],
[
'name' => 'field2',
'contents' => '7758'
],
[
'name' => 'field3',
'contents' => '404'
],
[
'name' => 'field4',
'contents' => '0'
],
[
'name' => 'field5',
'contents' => 'Marcello Dantas Correia'
],
[
'name' => 'remark',
'contents' => 'Enviando do meu servidor para o GED'
],
]
]);
return $response;
Storage::disk('local')->put('public/' . $filename, file_get_contents($image), 'public');
$documento->save(); //salva no meu banco
}
I´m using php artisan storage:link and the error is:
{message: "fopen(/1_1.jpeg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory",…}
exception: "ErrorException"
file: "/Users/marcellopato/Sites/contemplado/app/Http/Controllers/DocumentoController.php"
line: 234
message: "fopen(/1_1.jpeg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory"
trace: [{function: "handleError", class: "Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions", type: "->"},…]
As you can see, I get the name of the file, but not its path.
What I am doing wrong?
Anyone?
Thanks in advance!