Manuela
Matos Monteiro
🇵🇹 Portugal
With us
1 year
Studio Name
MIRA Galleries | Porto | Portugal
Manuela Matos Monteiro is dedicated to photography since youth. She is photographer and also curator of several exhibitions and a Biennale of Photography in Portugal. She, with João Lafuente, is director of 3 galleries (since 2013), 4 spaces, MIRA Galleries: MIRA FORUM (photography), Espaço MIRA (contemporary art) and MIRA | artes performativas (performance and contemporary art). Have attended courses and workshops in the field of fine arts in general and photography in particular. She participated with their works in solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been recognized by awards achieved in several photo competitions as well as the publication of photographs in books and magazines.
Winning photos
Madagascar - alone in the landscape.
87th Collection
Steps with millennia | Egypt
86th Collection
Steps with millennia | Egypt
86th Collection
Skies on fire _ 02 _ Corgo North Portugal
85th Collection
Skies on fire _ 01 _ Corgo North Portugal
85th Collection
human beings & animals
82nd Collection
Light and shadows | Corgo | North Portugal | 01
81st Collection
Light and shadows | Corgo | North Portugal | 02
81st Collection
Incredible exhibition of Mark Rothko _02
Louis Vuitton Foundation | Paris
Incredible exhibition of Mark Rothko _01
Louis Vuitton Foundation | Paris
Anemones' Dance _ 02
78th Collection
Anemones' Dance _ 01
78th Collection
Iran’s central desert, Dashte- kavir is an incredible place. In one of the borders, Garmeh, an oasis, a green spot, almost a miracle. Oasis exists because there is a desert. The effect of shadows and light is magic
77th Collection
A sea of sand _ 02
Iran’s central desert, Dashte- kavir is an incredible place. In one of the borders, Garmeh, an oasis, a green spot, almost a miracle. Oasis exists because there is a desert.
Her fingers dance with grace and ease, upon the harp strings, like soft a breeze.
Frederica Vieira Campos Porto Portugal.
I am your mirror...
At MIRA Galleries in Porto, Portugal two adolescents look at the beauty of the woman in the painting. I am your mirror...
Wadi Rum desert | Jordan
The softness of the clouds, the hardness of the stone | 03
Wadi Rum desert | Jordan
The softness of the clouds, the hardness of the stone | 02
Melgaço | North Portugal
The softness of the clouds, the hardness of the stone | 01
New York City - The Oculus
In the place where so many died, the transportation hub built by Santiago Calatrava has a clear statement: against death the light of a wing of a bird, maybe a seagull, maybe a nightingale… just a free wing flying towards the sun.
