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In 2006, regarding the theatrical production Alter-Ego from Teatro Bruto company, wich crossed theater with cinema, Luena proposed me to bring also photography into this duet, through a photographic work about Oporto theatres, some currently locked up or with parallel activities besides cinema. |
I tried to found the images, ghosts, memories and particularitities of each theatre. These moments that I photograph seem like small fragments of time, in between sessions, films, stories. [see exhibition] |
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This set of portraits was made in the small studio I've set up at home, where I installed a large format camera and some flash lights. They're mainly portraits of family and friends done in the last two years in which I used as film the extinct Polaroid 55. In some of them I used the solarization technique (or Sabattier Effect). Having this house loodged many decades ago a real photography studio open to the public and that even receive the distinction of 'Photographers of the Royal House', it was a very interesting personal experience to re-create what would have been at the time, the portrait sessions, with the necessary pose that the large format camera 4x5 obliges. |
This experience become a small studio, set together with the photographer Rui Dias Monteiro and that nowadays accepts commisioned orders of individual portraits, called 'The Beautiful Skull' (www.thebeautifulskull.com). [see exhibition] |
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north Numa Janela do Edifício Prestes Maia 911, Júlio Bittencourt FNAC Viseu opens 7-may Contemporaneidade, Nuno Calvet Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto opens 3-may A Cidade das Aldeias, Mário João Mesquita Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto until 28-jun Pazi Mine. Attenzione Mine, Elena Givone FNAC Braga until 10-jun |
centre Prémio PhotoEspaña OjoDePez de Valores Humanos, Colectiva FNAC Vasco da Gama, Lisboa opens 7-may Batalha de Sombras, Colectiva Museu do Neo-Realismo, Vila Franca de Xira until 14-jun De passagem, Graça Sarsfield Casa da Cerca, Almada until 17-may Wall, Rita Barros Casa da Cerca, Almada until 17-may Trabalho de Campo, Jochen Lempert Culturgest, Lisboa until 10-may H2=_Ver, Paulo Carneiro Centro de Exposições, Odivelas until 17-may |
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