Virgilio Ferreira

In my work I am looking to capture impressions that are intangible, but where I include notions of social and everyday life. I attempt to do this by exploring the analogue photographic process creatively, in order to deny any fixed reality and the vision that the camera offers to me. Aesthetically, the images may have similarities with qualities of painting or drawing.
The central elements in my work are: experimenting with focus, multiple layers, obstructions, appearances and disappearances, as well as liquid colours. My aim is to explore the representativity of the invisible and create atmospheres with subjective impact on reception. Ultimately the result of my work is imaginary, but with elements collected from the real.

He has studied Photography in Oporto Technical School of Photography, MI 21 in Paris and at the International School of Cinema in La Habana (Cuba). 
In 2012, he gained an Master in photography at the University of Brighton.

His work has been widely exhibited in Europe, the Middle East, the United States, and South-East Asia. Some of the most significant exhibitions have taken place at Flowers Gallery (UK); Photo LA, and Photo Miami (U.S.A.); Hight House Gallery (UK); Format Festival (UK); Empty Quarter Gallery (Dubai); Ofoto Gallery (Shanghai); Portuguese Centre of Photography; Módulo Gallery (Lisbon); Madridfoto (Spain); Museu da Imagem (Braga, Portugal); Southeast Museum of Photography (U.S.A.); the 2nd Fotofestival Mannheim (Germany); Fotofestiwal Lodz (Poland); Royal College of Art (London); Berllaymont, (Bruxelas), Pipfestival (China), 19th Photography Meeting Thessaloniki (Greece) and the BAC Festival at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (Spain).