Maurício Abreu
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Maurício José Ferreira da Costa de Abreu | |
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| Born | April 19, 1954 Coimbra, Portugal |
| Occupations | photographer, editor and cultural producer |
Maurício José Ferreira da Costa de Abreu (born Coimbra, 19 April 1954) is a Portuguese photographer, editor and cultural producer. He is a leading name in Portuguese photography, as a specialist in the areas of natural and cultural patrimony, ethnography and traditional architecture.
Abreu was born in Coimbra but has lived in the Setúbal region since 1964. A graduate in Electrical Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon in 1978, he became a professional photographer in 1983. Since then, he has developed several projects as a photographer, producer and editor, focusing his photography on a series of values that tend to be menaced by the modern civilization.[1]
He is the author and editor of books dedicated to several aspects of Portuguese culture and regions, with texts by writers and journalists like José Manuel Fernandes, Álamo de Oliveira, Francisco José Viegas, Nuno Júdice and João de Melo.[2] He was the photographer of José Saramago's travel book, Viagem a Portugal (Travel to Portugal), in 1990, which details a trip taken by the writer to the entire territory of Mainland Portugal.[3]
He was elected QEP (Qualified European Photographer) by the FEP (European National Professional Photographers Associations) in Belgium, in 2009.[4]
In 2002, his portraits of Setúbal citizens, taken from 1997 to 2000, were on display as part of the exhibition "How many minorities make up the whole" at the Setúbal Museum/Convento de Jesus.[1]
