Born in 1949, on Terceira Island, Azores/Portugal

He has lived in Brazil since 1963. Graduated in Law.

He dedicates himself professionally to documentary photography in special projects, as well as to authorial creation, in his studio in Curitiba.

Specialized in expeditions and long-term projects.

Editor and curator.

He uses two other heteronyms - Yury Andropov and Jacob Bensabat - for other themes within the diversity of his production.

 

 

Works in collection

 

• International Center of Photography, New York
• Center Georges Pompidou, Paris
• French Museum of Photography / Paris
• MASP - Museum of Art of São Paulo
• MAM - Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo
• Itaú Cultural Institute
• Museum of Photography City of Curitiba
• EPAL - Portuguese Free Waters Company / Lisbon
• National Library of Rio de Janeiro
• Afro-Brazilian Museum, Sao Paulo
• MON - Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba
• Photo library of Cuba, Havana
• Several national and international private collections

 

 

 

 

Published books

 

 

• 1987 Venske Ribbons and Flags
• 1988 Foz do Iguaçu - Our Land
• 1994 Garden of Dwarves
• 2002 Heart of Brazil Collection, three volumes: Man, Earth and Myth
• 2002 Iguazu
• 2004 Sudarium
• 2004 Brennand
• 2008 Expedition Heart of Brazil – Paraná
• 2012 Heart of Brazil Expedition – Paranaguá, Lagamar
• 2014 Rio Grande/RS
• 2017 Augusto Weiss 1890/1990
• 2019 Mestizo – Portrait of Brazil
• 2022 Cosmic

 

 

News and Events

 

11963 Arrives in Brazil and takes a photography course at the Universal Institute

1969/1979 Leader / lyricist and drummer of the rock group A Chave who played with the main groups in Brazil such as Mutantes, Rita Lee, Casa das Máquinas, Joelho de Porco and Bill Haley and his comets

!981 returns to his vocation as a photographer setting up a studio with Vilma Slomp and Peter Lorenzo

1985 Encyclopèdie Internationale des Photographes, Editions Camera Obscura, Switzerland and CD later edited in partnership with Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 2000.

Between 1994 and 1998 he was the Visual Arts Director of Curitiba, when he organized dozens of exhibitions with national and international artists as a curator.

He created the City of Curitiba International Photography Biennial in three editions, and from the important collection of photography that was constituted, he gave rise to the creation of the City of Curitiba Photography Museum, having been its creator.

Among the dozens of curators, it held the 1st, 2nd and 3rd International Photography Biennial of the City of Curitiba, and the exhibition A Revolta, by the artist Franz Krajcberg, with more than a million visitors during 1995.

Dozens of special articles and interviews for national and international newspapers and magazines.

He participates in several individual and group exhibitions.

He collaborates for numerous magazines in Brazil and abroad.

He has been a member of juries and commissions for portfolio analysis, giving lectures and writing critical texts by artists in Brazil and abroad.

In 1998 he was considered a prominent Portuguese artist in the universe of visual arts residing in Brazil, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Secretariat of Portuguese Communities in Portugal.

2003 Receives the Prêmio Talento do Paraná.

2005 the City Council of Curitiba grants a certificate of Honor and Merit to its participation in the Portuguese Community in Curitiba and in the local culture.

2007 the City of Curitiba culture and promotion award.

He is one of three world finalists in the field of arts by Portuguese living abroad.

2009 launches the book Haruo Ohara about the work of this Japanese emigrant photographer, pioneer of the city of Londrina and farmer.

2010 is invited by the Embassy of Brazil in Sri Lanka through the diplomat Pedro Bório and the Itamaraty / Ministry of Foreign Affairs to exhibit and give lectures in Colombo (Sri Lanka) and in Mumbai and Delhi (India).

2013 Lectures in Lisbon on PhotoBook at LX Factory.

2014 Lecture at the Municipal Library of São Miguel, São Miguel Island / Azores

Between 2014 and 2018, he created the intensive Visceral Photography course together with the Portfolio school and started organizing his collection/museum with 160,000 analogue matrices and more than 300,000 digital ones, in addition to hundreds of vintage prints in silver.

2022 Presents the retrospective show “O Labyrinth of Light” curated by Rubens Fernandes junior at MON (Museu Oscar Niemeyer)

1999 to 2002 Founder and coordinator of the Heart of Brazil Expedition

Traveled 70,000 km throughout the national territory in a jeep photographing the country whose project “Expedição Coração do Brasil” resulted in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, and the publication of the books: Homem, Terra e Mito, part of the Coração do Brasil collection that is completely exhausted.

2005 On September 13th, the Heart of Paraná Expedition began, ending in April 2006.

Expedição Coração do Brasil - Paraná is a continuation of Coração do Brasil, an endless project of life and documentation of the country's human and natural heritage. In this new cycle, he also traveled in a 4x4 vehicle over 20,000 km.

Expedição Coração do Paraná resulted in an unusual visual document with a sample presented at MON – Museu Oscar Niemeyer with around 200 images processed and elaborated by the museum printer Silvio Pinhatti. Subsequently, he launches the edition of the book “Expedição Coração do Brasil – Paraná”, a work with 634 pages in a luxury finish, trilingual.

2011 May began the new expedition of the project “Heart of Brazil – Paranaguá, Lagamar” when he stayed for a period of twelve months on a vessel traveling through the entire region between Guarçouba in Paraná and Iguape in the State of São Paulo documenting the caiçara culture as well as this important complex Lagamar estuary. Today this book is an IPHAN reference through Amir Klink.

2012 November launched the work Expedição Coração do Brasil – Paranaguá, Lagamar along with an exhibition at its Galeria Lux in Curitiba. This exhibition was permanently located inside the Fort of Ilha do Mel and now at the Antonina Railway Station.

2014 September/October and November carries out the Expedition to the Azores archipelago where he documented its natural and human heritage traveling through the nine Islands of his saga. He intends to edit a new book with the material produced.

2016 presents the exhibition Ruínas at MUMA - Museu Metropolitano de Arte de Curitiba where he assumes his new heteronym Jacob Bensabat for this work and series within the diversity and multiplicity of his

 

 

 

 

Expedition Heart of Brazil

 

 

 

Idealizer and coordinator of the Heart Expedition of Brazil held from April 1999 to July 2002.

He traveled throughout the national territory in a jeep when he traveled 70.000km, photographing the country whose project results in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, and the publication of the books Homem, Terra e Mito, integrating the collection Heart of Brazil.

The 13 of September of 2005 began the Heart Expedition of the Paraná with end in April of 2006.

Heart Expedition of Paraná is a continuation of Heart of Brazil interminable project of life and documentation of the human and natural patrimony of the country.

Heart Expedition of Paraná resulted in an unusual visual document with a show presented at MON - Museu Oscar Niemeyer with about 200 images processed and elaborated museologically. Later it launches the edition of the book "Heart Expedition of Brazil - Paraná" work with 634 pages in luxury finishing, trilingue.

In May 2011 began a new expedition of the project "Heart of Brazil - Paranaguá, Lagamar" When remained twelve-month period a vessel covering the entire region between Guaraqueçaba in Parana and Iguape in São Paulo documenting the Caiçara culture as well as this important complex and Lagamar estuary.

In November 2012 he launched the Expedição Coração do Brasil - Paranaguá, Lagamar together with a show at his Galeria Lux in Curitiba

In September, October and November 2014 he made the Expedition to the Azores archipelago where he documented his natural and human heritage traveling through the nine Islands of his saga. You want to edit new book with the material produced.