António Pedro Ferreira

António Pedro Ferreira (Lisbon, 1957) lives and works in Lisbon. He began exploring photography at the age of ten. In 1975, he enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon, graduating in 1982. That same year, he applied for a photography grant from the Ministry of Culture, which took him to Paris. There, he worked under the guidance of Magnum photographers and Jean-Claude Lemagny, a curator at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, producing a two-year project on Portuguese emigrants. As a correspondent for Expresso, he travelled extensively to cover events in Kosovo, Mozambique, Angola, South Africa, Ethiopia, Iraq, Pakistan, São Tomé and Príncipe, Thailand, China and Macau, the United States, Brazil, Peru, East Timor, and various European countries. He was awarded the Gazeta Journalism Prize in 1998 and the Portuguese Press Club Prize in 2000. His work has been exhibited since 1984.