Invisible Landscape 6 Photograph - Limited Edition of 20

Lisbon, 1969. Lives and works in Chamusca, Santarém. Pedro has travelled and lived in different countries since childhood. In his late teens, he discovered photography. Since then he never let go. He attended ArCo, studying Photography and has then complemented it with extensive training with internationally renowned photographers such as Greg Gorman, Arthur Meyerson and Joyce Tenneson, among others. He coordinated the projects that brought photographers like Steve McCurry and David Alan Harvey to Portugal for the first time. He participated in several collective and individual exhibitions. In an era of grand digital apotheosis and accessibility to photography, in which all images are valid and all exist from the click, Pedro returns to the origins of photography. The fatigue of the snapshot took him there and led him to create images that are not accessible to current digital equipment. His images refer to ideas such as silence, perpetuity and perenniality. Above all, they reveal a preoccupation with light or the absence of it. Returning to the origins of photography - mainly as a way of ‘slowing down time’ - Pedro has been using Pinhole as an image capture device. The long exposure times that this type of equipment requires results, not in a representation of reality, but in a set of moments that are condensed in the same image. The photographer ends up being overtaken by time and at the same time holding the authorship of the image since it was his decision of the place, the time and the equipment to use. The final result does not depend on him but began with him, and as such belongs to him. The inability of Pinhole to create snapshots ends up confirming what Roland Barthes says when he states that photography is not a copy of reality, but refers to reality. The images of Pedro Dantas dos Reis mirror exactly that.