My name is João and I’m a travel photographer from Portugal. Photography has been with me since a child, when I started to play around with my father’s old Yashica rangefinder, but only when I started to travel photography grew outside my snapshots and occasional experiments. I use it to capture the world around me, whatever that is and wherever that is, it’s my form of expression while travelling and a way to share my view and perspective of the places, more than showing the places as people may be expecting.
Travel for me doesn’t mean going far away, I find the same pleasure in taking photos while I’m lost at the narrow streets of a Myanmar city or an epic Icelandic landscape as when I’m wandering in my own hometown. For me photography is all about finding the magic of places, finding the little things that define them: in some places it’s the smile of woman while in others could the morning mist on a valley or just a water puddle after rainfall.
As I grew as a photographer I went to get inspiration to many sources, because I enjoy so many different genres like street or landscape. I found it in the classics and the masters: Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Magnum and National Geographic but still find it in all the anonymous but talented friends and fellows that keep crossing my way. In all these years one quote of Sebastião Salgado has been following me: “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.”, probably it’s my favorite photography quote this sums up how see it.
My aim is just to keep taking photos, as simple as that, and while doing it to be able to reach the many people as I can.
Links:
http://www.joaoalmeidaphotography.com
http://t3mujin.net
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