Manuela
Matos Monteiro
🇵🇹 Portugal
With us
2 years
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
This place is the wall of the citadel of Khiva, a city in Uzbekistan isolated in the desert north of Samarkand. It was an important stop on the legendary Silk Road.
I captured a man alone, an image that could be a symbol of loneliness. When I looked at the image again, I realized the man had a mobile phone in his hand: he wasn’t alone after all; he was connected to the world. Our frames of reference need to be reconsidered!
Silence, the sound of silence in B&W
The Jade Dragon Mountain in China.
The Jade Dragon Mountain in China. light and darkness
100th Collection
In Sicily, valleys and hills stretch as far as the eye can see.
October 2025
An endless road is always a hopeful metaphor, wherever you are!
Here, in Sicily, in October of this year.
The past and the present in Sicily, Italy
98th Collection
"The 7 cities Lagoon" | Azores Portugal _ 01
97th Collection
The beautiful blues of Azores, Portugal
97th Collection
"The 7 cities Lagoon" | Azores Portugal _ 02
97th Collection
Lonely sunset | Corgo, North Portugal
96th Collection
Sunset at Al Monawat, Egypt
95th Collection
The mitic Nile, in Egypt
95th Collection
Morocco, where earth and sky seems the same.
1500 Km in a bus were a fantastic experience!
In S. Tomé and Principe Islands, everything is fixed!
92nd Collection
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
