Júlio de Matos

Júlio de Matos (Braga) studied Industrial Design with Gerald Gulotta at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and attended the Industrial Design Workshop 74. He completed the Advanced Architecture Course at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto. From 1979 to 1981, he received the ITT - International Fellowship through the Fulbright-Hays Scholarship Program, supporting a postgraduate MFA in Photography as a Fine Art at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), New York.His photographic projects, stemming from his travels in Asia, include Ta Prohm - The Memory of the World (Cambodia, 2001), Heaven's Door - Manikarnika Ghat (India, 2003), Fading Hutongs (China, 2005-2008), and Casas de Brasileiro (Portugal, 2008). Later, his photographic series Flat Water, created in Portugal, explores digital interventions to question the apparent three-dimensionality of landscapes in photographic prints. In 2012, his photographic series Travel Journal - A Journey to Santa Fé, based on a personal trip to New Mexico, delved into the relationship between text/image and narrative metaphor. In 2016, he continued this conceptual exploration with the project Crónicas de Ronci.