Moira Forjaz

Moira Forjaz (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1942) graduated in graphic arts from the Johannesburg School of Art and Design. She worked as a photojournalist in southern Africa and from 1975 as a photographer and documentary filmmaker in Mozambique. In Mozambique she worked as an assistant to Rui Guerra and José Fonseca e Costa. She held the solo photographic exhibition Ilha de Moçambique at the Livraria Paese Nuove, Rome (1979). She founded and directed the Galeria Moira, Lisbon (1989-2001). She is executive director of the Viana do Castelo Music Festival and director of the Maputo International Music Festival. As a photographer, she learned a lot from great South African photographers such as Jurgen Schadaberg, David Goldblatt and Sam Haskins; as a filmmaker, she was influenced by Jean Rouch and Jean-Luc Godard.