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MaputoFastForward – Encontro “My Maputo”
4:26 CAT | 4 December 2017
MaputoFastForward – Encontro “My Maputo”
Meeting with photographers Ricardo Franco, Emídio Jozine, Ana C. Antunes, Dinho Lima and Adiodato Gomes.
Ricardo Franco was born in Portugal in August 1980. He learned the art of photography alone. More towards street photographs which shows pure and difficult reality of life, but always of poetic form, manages to capture the essence of the characters photographer, but above all the scenarios that eternalize in the image. Works especially for magazines, in a great news environment, where images are worth a thousand words. Between 2003 and 2004 he lived in Guinea-Bissau, reporting in pictures his work as a volunteer teacher in schools in the interior of the country. Back in Portugal, he worked in schools and districts, living their daily documentary photography.
In 2007 he moved to Macao, traveling to various Asian countries, consolidating his career as a photojournalist. In 2009 he moved to Mozambique, where he currently resides, expanding his work for commercial photography, artsy, fashionable, institutional, working for various agencies and institutions. In the last two years he found a new passion of producing several documentaries and institutional videos in Mozambique.
Emídio Jozine was born in Mozambique in 1982. In 2004 after finishing the National School of Visual Arts in Maputo, Mozambique, with the thesis "KuxaKanema - Birth of Mozambican cinema". In 2007 he began to study photography at the Center for Photographic Education in Maputo, the following year he won the national photography contest sponsored by the Mozambican Photography Association.
In 2009/2010, Josine worked as a photojournalist on the Zambezi, made several partnerships with artists, choreographers such as Maria Helena Pinto, Manuela Soueiro, Edna Jaime and Horace Macuacua, in this ambit he holds his second exhibition with photographer Mauro Vombe.
Tendo descoberto a fotografia em 2010 – registando as mais diversas situações do seu quotidiano desde objectos a plantas e animais -. começou, a partir de 2012, a desenvolver trabalho profissional na área da fotografia.
Ana Cristina Antunes born in Maputo. She is an art director at Brand Lovers, from a very young age she manifested her artistic inclination through the making of costume jewelry, collages, painting and drawing with charcoal pencils, acrylic paint, watercolor and crayons on canvas and paper.
At the age of 17, she began working as Web Content Editor and Trainer, having subsequently obtained training in Graphic Design, an area in which she continues to work professionally. Having discovered photography in 2010 - recording the most diverse situations of her daily life from objects to plants and animals. As of 2012 she began to develop professional work in the field of photography.
Brazilian Dinho Lima is a photojournalist and has lived in Mozambique for 6 years. He began working as an illustrator at the age of fourteen in advertising agencies, having subsequently completed his training in journalism. His work has always tried to interconnect, from that moment on, writing and visual expressions. Throughout his professional career, more than 20 years, his work has reflected the diversity of the various disciplines he has dedicated (journalism, photography, design, typography and graphic arts).
Dinho Lima has recently exhibited in Mozambique, in the collective "Punkada", which was shown at Centro Cultural Franco Moçambicano in Maputo where he participated in many exhibitions and received several awards (Brazilian Biennial of Graphic Design, Jabuti Prize for Literature, etc.) . In "The Chair of the Guard", Dinho Lima fixes his gaze on these characters (guards) who are an integral part of the urban scene of Maputo.
Adiodato Gomes, born on August 7, 1972, in Maputo, began his career as a producer of cultural events in 1995 and it was in this context that the passion for photography arose.
After participating in a 2007 course organized by the Center for Documentation and Photographic Training - guided by Ricardo Rangel and Basílio Muhati - in 2011 he participated in the collective exhibition "GREVE 2010" organized by the Mozambican Photography Association (AMF) photographers such as Joel Chiziane, Naita Ussene, Funcho, Tomas Cumbana (among others).
In July 2016 he held his first solo exhibition - '' LUVANO '' - at Fernando Leite Couto Foundation, curated by the Mozambican photographer Filipe Branquinho.
Date and Time: Tuesday, December 5 2017 at 18h00
Entrance: Free
Address: Fundação Fernando Leite Couto, Av. Kim Il Sung no. 961, Maputo
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