Contacts:
Currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina
+54 911 6245 7956
jcpina@jcphoto.net
worldwide phones:
+351 91 727 7575
+1 718 577 1171
Bio:
João de Carvalho Pina was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1980 and at the age of 18 he started working as a photographer.
In 2002 he starts working in Latin America, and he has worked deeply in countries like Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba and Paraguay.
In 2004-2005 he decided to go back to school and enroled in the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography program of the International Center of Photography in New York, USA.
In 2007 he published his first book “Por teu livre pensamento” featuring the stories of 25 former portuguese political prisoners, with his colleague and friend Rui Daniel Galiza who wrote the texts.
His work has been published in The New York Times, Newsweek, GEO Magazine, El Pais, EPs, La Vanguardia Magazine, D Magazine, Io Donna, Expresso and Visão.
He had exibithions in New York (ICP and Point of View Gallery), London (Ian Parry Award), Tokyo (Canon gallery), Lisbon (KGaleria and Casa Fernando Pessoa) and Oporto (Centro Português de Fotografia).
From late 2007 he his based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is continuing to document the rests of the political and military operation to destroy the political oposition to the military dictatorships in South America.
João Pina
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