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Fábio Cunha  is a photographer based in Portugal.  He combines his artistic practice with commissioned  work. He is a professor and photography course coordinator at ETIC Lisboa.

He holds a Master in Architecture from the University of Porto and a Master in Photography from  EFTI - Madrid.   Main projects and collaborations are:  “Liepa” produced in the scope of Kaunas Photo Gallery artistic residency;  “Sala de Aula” as part of the artistic residency Vivificar - Ci.CLO.  “Rua Fonte do Mundo”  as part of the artistic residency from Festival Encontros da Imagem Braga and Flâneur ao Centro - Procurarte. He was one of the artists selected for Parallel Platform, exhibiting his work in Europe in different festivals and galleries.  He received the DocField Dummy Award – Fundació Banc Sabadell- Barcelona, publishing his book Zona with Phree, La Kursala and Photographic Social Vision. In 2017 his book Zona was selected as one of the best books of the year by PhotoEspaña. 

 

BOOKS

2019 “Urgents Arts of Living”, book catalogue published by Parallel and Kaunas Photo Gallery.

2017 “ZONA - An Investigation Report”, published by Phree, La Kursala and Photographic Social Vision.

2015 “Almost Fiction”, selfpublished

 

ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES

2019/22 "Kaunas Photography Gallery"-  artistic residency, Lituânia.

2022 "Vivificar- CI.CLO" ;  Torre de Moncorvo, Trás os Montes.

2022 “Arte e Território”, Jornal do Fundão Newspaper,

2021 Festival Encontros da Imagem - artistic residency, Braga

2021 “Flâneur - Urban Narratives” by Procur.arte in Leiria, Lourinhã e Bombarral

 

PRIZES / RECOGNITIONS

2019 Winner: “Parallel Award” for the group exhibition “Urgent Arts of Living” presented at Kaunas Gallery - Lithuania.

2018 Selected for Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira 2018

2018 Selected for Parallel - Europen Photography Platform.

2017 Photobook ZONA selected as one of the best books of the year by PhotoEspaña and photo-eye magazine.

2017 Winner of the DocField Dummy Award - Barcelona, Fundació Banc Sabadell.

2014 Winner: “Al Betrayal” - Future prize, EFTI

 

EXHIBITIONS 

2023 “Sala de Aula”, ViViFICAR, Surnadal, Norway

2023 “Sala de Aula”, ViViFICAR, Porto Bienal de Fotografia

2023 “Sala de Aula”, ViViFICAR, Douro Museum, Régua

2022 “Sala de Aula”, ViViFICAR, Torre de Moncorvo.

2022 “Rua Fonte do Mundo”, Novi Sad, Sérvia, European Capital of Culture

2022 “Flâneur ao Centro”, Leiria, Lourinhã e Bombarral

2022 “Arte e Território”, NovoBanco, Lisboa

2021 “Rua Fonte do Mundo”, Festival Encontros da Imagem, Braga

2021 “Leite Derramado”, Galeria Zaratan, Lisboa

2020 “Esta Noite”, Atelier Pedro Cabrita Reis, Lisboa

2019 “Urgent Arts of Living”, Parallel Review, Lisboa

2019 “Zeitgeist”, Robert Capa Center, Hungary

2019 “Urgent Arts of Living”, Kaunas Photo Gallery, Lithuania

2018 “All the mountains” - Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira

2018 Parallel Intersection, Organ Vida Festival, Croatia

2017 “ZONA” - galeria “La Kursala”, Cadiz, Spain

2017 “Un panorama de la fotografía de autor en España”, PhotoEspaña.

2016 “ZONA - An Investigation Report”, Festival SCAN Tarragona, Spain

2016 “Democracia”, São João da Talha, Loures Arte Pública

2015 “Nueva Fotografia Internacional”, Circulo Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain

 

STUDIES

2014 Master in Photography - EFTI, Madrid

2009 Master in Architecture - Universidade of Porto (FAUP)

 

TEACHING

2020/23 Professor and photography course coordinator at ETIC Lisboa.