About João De Castro:
I have 25 years of career as a photographer, producer, former, writer and consulter at full time and soul.
My work it’s a personal and passionate path, not giving in, between the Rigor and the Chaos, in each word or image, (re)rising a reality full of emotions. My way of seeing things and “Full Body Portraits” don’t know taboos or artificiality. Perfectionist, organic and purist, I work in digital, but always perpetuating the integrity of the original image with no resort to post-production composition, and for that printing a plasticity and realism only comparable to the best film works.
With several international representations and 44 exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Brazil, United States of America, Macau, Hong Kong and Japan, I am also organizer of the 36th International Salon of Photographic Art of Algarve for 2011, with the high sponsoring of The International Federation of Photographic Art – FIAP and the Photographic Society of America – PSA.
I Conceive and administrate several projects in photography and arts, sponsored and supported by prestigious brands and organizations. Official judge, I am also a regular presence in the specialized press with portfolios, interviews, tutorials and opinion articles, being usually invited to share my vision and experience in workshops, lectures and conferences on the most acknowledge institutions. The courses, workshops and training courses that I teache, with formats and programs of my authorship and exclusives, have been successively sponsored by Kodak, Konica Minolta, Apple store, Hewlett-Packard Portugal and Adobe.