Guest Artists: Jorge Pereira and Rui Cambraia
30 Nov to 3 Dec 2015 – Júlio Dantas Secondary School, Lagos
Synopsis
Pinhole photography is a non-lensed photographic technique, where light enters a darkroom directly through a small hole (the pinhole), creating an image inside.
This technique has great didactic and pedagogical potential because it teaches the basic fundamentals of the photographic process through extremely simple and creative experiments.
Using reusable materials such as shoeboxes and cookie tins – with which to build a darkroom (sealed to the light) – it is possible to make images that can be printed on photographic paper.
These simpler handmade cameras can be customized/decorated plastically, and serve as a starting point for more elaborate ones for successively more complex photographic and cognitive experiments.
Biography
JORGE PEREIRA (Mozambique, 1974)
In 1998, he completes the Sculpture Course at ARCA, in Coimbra.
Develops several scenic works for theater and dance, and between 2003-07 collaborates with Amálgama Companhia de Dança, in graphic design and video.
He has participated in individual and collective exhibitions, in the areas of installation, painting, ceramics, photography, among them: International Competition of Marvão and San Vicente de Alcântara – 1st Prize (2004-05); AL NE – 100 images of doors in 10 localities of the North Alentejo (2005); Biennial of Porto Santo (2007); MALA – Lagos Artists Show (2007, 09, 11); Maria Benta – Espólio de uma Fadista (2008); Allmnésia, installation with Tiago Cutileiro, part of the Allgarve (2008); re-identidades (2009); ALLENTEJO (2010); Lagos through the eye of the needle (2010). And as part of LAC’s activities, in the group exhibitions LAC – Open Day (2007-15), ARTUR – Artistas Unidos em Residência (2011-12) and ROOTS – in Residence (Maputo, Mozambique, 2013 and Cacau, S.Tomé and Príncipe, 2014).
He is the author of the illustrations for Malaquias, a children’s book by Cristina Taquelim (2007). He regularly performs technical drawing work in Archaeology.
He is a resident artist and member of the board of LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas, and has been in charge of the association’s graphic image since 2006.
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RUI CAMBRAIA (Lisbon, 1967)
Equivalent to Associate Professor at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (ESEP) between 1999 and 2015.
Graduated in Painting from the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon (1992); Master in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (2001); Post-graduate: PhD in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (curricular component of the third cycle of higher education), from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (2014).
Non-academic training:
Attended the Course of Lithography and Serigraphy at Associação de Artistas Gravadores da Amadora (1989); studied mixed media and painting at The Art Students League of New York, in the classes of Bruce Dorfman and William Sharf (1995/1996); internship in Introduction to Video Language and Technique, at Federação Portuguesa de Cinema e Audiovisuais (1997); Workshop: Photography Direction with Available Light, in the International Meetings of Cinema, Television, Video and Multimedia – AVANCA ’09 (2009); workshop Digital Photography, modules I and II, Espaço_Corpo, Castelo de Vide, 2009; workshop Xylography, promoted by LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas, Lagos (2015).
She works in Production, organization and pedagogical action of events of artistic and socio-cultural nature, in the area of Visual Arts and Photography, between 2005 and 2015.
As an artist-plastic artist he held 44 exhibitions of Fine Arts and Photography, including 37 group projects and group exhibitions, and 7 solo exhibitions, between 1990 and 2015. She participated in two artistic residencies at LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas (Lagos, 2014).
Awards:
Maratona Lomográfica, Centro de Ciência Viva de Estremoz, Photography, 2010; Património (i)material ñ Festividades do Concelho de Serpa, Photography, 2015.
