ANDREA PORTELLA

Andrea Portella, Rio de Janeiro, 1951.

 

Pharmacist graduated from UFRJ, I worked as an executive until 2011 in the corporate area of ​​large healthcare companies. Upon completing 60 years I closed my professional activities and started to dedicate myself to photography.

Post-graduated in Photography and Image at IUPERJ / UCAM, I started my photography studies in São Paulo, continuing at Ateliê da Imagem, and at EAV.

I was a student of Leandro Pimentel, Mickele Petruccelli Pucarelli, Leonardo Ramadinha, Marcos Bonisson and Franz Manata.

In 2013, I went to India on a photographic expedition to the Himalayas and Uttarakhand - the result of this work is currently being edited to make a picture book. I developed documentary photography projects for NGOs in communities in Rio de Janeiro.

Exhibitions and projects, in which I participated as a photographer:

• “Fuga Lines” of the Singular Plural Collective - Design na Praça (2014) and CCJF (2015);

• "Eu Fotografo / Eu Espectador" - Paraty em Foco Festival (2016) and Foto na Cabeça (2016); "Contemporary Readings" - Cândido Mendes Gallery (2017);

• "O que vemos, O que nos Olha" - CCJF (2017).

• Co-author of the book "Eu Fotografo / Eu Espectador”, launched in Tiradentes / Foto em Pauta (2018).