Pedro Dantas Dos Reis

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 ...

Arco - Photography school
Workshops With
Sam Abell
Arthur Meyerson
Steve Mccurry
Joyce Tenneson
David Alan Harvey
Douglas Kirkland

2021 - Solo Exhibition “Na Margem do Visível”, Chamusca, Portugal
2010 - Collective Exhibition “Cabinet d'Amateur”, Sala do Veado, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - Group Exhibition “Invisible Landscapes”, Sala do Veado, Lisbon, Portugal
2006 - Collective Exhibition “Ten Looks on Cuba”, Lisbon, Porto, Faro, Portugal
2005 - Collective Exhibition “Ten Looks on Cuba, Porto, Portugal
2004 - Collective Exhibition “Ten House of Lat in America, Lisbon, Portugal
2001 - Solo Exhibition “Ponto de Vista”, Casa da Memória, Odivelas, Portugal
1999 - Fotovisão Collective Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal