I was born at the end of 1948 in Setúbal, Portugal and I always had some kind of connection with Photography. My father used to take pictures of our home town, boats, landscapes and I can still remember him and my uncle working very late at night in the darkroom.

Later as I grew old, my father borough me his Rolleicord and I got my own Pentax years later which I used to make experiments while developing in the darkroom.
In spite of the care I had for this activity I couldn’t exercise it as much as I would like to because of professional and family lives.

After making the military service in the former Portuguese Timor I took the degree in Architecture and worked as Architect for more than 31 years dedicating small time to Photography due to professional and family occupations as mentioned before.

However, some years before retirement my interest for Photography began to grow up again until now that I am involved with a small group of photographers in my home town.

We make individual or collective exhibitions locally from time to time but nothing important as far as my ambitions go.

My approach to Photography has been changing lately. For too long I have been concerned about technical problems and their issues. I am now turning to other grounds: to represent what is beyond reality and can be perceived as feelings and emotions throughout the submissions to themes.

I have been concerned about technical problems and their issues for some time but it was not enough and I turn to other grounds: to represent what is beyond reality and can be perceived as feelings and emotions throughout the submissions to themes which I created by myself.

Now Photography makes part of my life and through it I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction. I think that to make good Photography - or any work - you have to be absorbed, committed, dedicated, extracting pleasure and that is the way I feel about Photography.

It happens sometimes that when I am working and that special mood goes away - because I am tired, distracted, whatever - I have to stop because I lack motivation to go on. I start moments later with new enthusiasm and commitment.