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Pedro Cardigo is a Portuguese photographer based in Porto. With a career as a professional photographer for over 25 years, from film (35mm and 120 format) to digital (full frame and medium format), exploring many ways to stock the reality into frames. He has shot fashion, editorial, portraits, architecture, street, product and corporate. He has developed several projects all over the world, specially in Japan, South Korea, China, Italy, France and obviously Portugal. Even though he started photographing at the age of 10 (with a polaroid Camera), his life try to led him away from photography. At 18 he went to college to study Management and Economics, which resulted in a successful career in corporate for 20 years. During this time Pedro Cardigo was having a double life, also working as a professional photographer. 3 years ago he decided to fully embrace his passion, he left his corporate career behind to became a full-time photographer. Like Jack Kerouac, Pedro Cardigo finds in the Human Being itself the basic inspiration for his work. He is a seeker of the human souls. He achieves part of his human experience by seeing, meeting, talking and sharing, one of the reasons he’s so comfortable with people. He’s in a constant search for what makes each one special, trying to look beneath the layers, and experimenting a deep inner experience of life. Pedro Cardigo’s eye is an existentialist filter on reality. He probes human existence, both individual and collective, making it the core of his artistic reflections. He tries to grasp the essential to develop a common language with the other, to grab something that finally goes beyond mere representation: contact with life in its many facets, potentials and bitter illusions.