José Ferreira
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biography
José Ferreira is a freelance photographer born in Lisbon in 1986, and currently lives in Faro, the capital town of the Algarve, the most touristical area in Portugal.
He is graduated from the University of Algarve in Visual Arts where he had analogue photography for a semester, his only formation in photography.
Despite his interest in photography have come even as a child, José began to devote himself more to this area only in 2007 when he entered the higher education.
One can conclude, by observing his photographic work, that José Ferreira nourishes a special admiration for photojournalism and fashion photography, while performing any type of project at the request of customers.
He has been interviewed and published by CNN, French magazine PHOTO and published in Fashion editorials at Men’s Health.
lisbon, portugal
José's features

s(HE), being a Drag Queen
There are shows every week, but every Monday shows are special. Opened 38 years ago, the Cathedral of Transformism in Lisbon, always reserves a night to present the new stars,

4SEE Photographers awarded at “Estação de Imagem” Prize
Four of our members were awarded, in different categories in the main portuguese prize in photojournalism, the “Estação de Imagem” Prize

Against time / Contra(o)tempo – Medical care for elder people
“I didn’t choose to be born. It wasn’t my choice. I breathe because I have to, and I decide to live every day. Being alive is not the same thing as living, when being born was the first death of them all.

José Ferreira – Corporate Portfolio
He is graduated from the University of Algarve in Visual Arts where he had analogue photography for

The Gypsy Cult
The gipsies call it “the Cult”, it is a kind of pact that they get together twice a week in a common hut to pray for good and exorcise the evil.

Ariana
Ariana doesn’t have a name, but she has a story. She keeps it in her veins, the reason for her apathy. The most known cliché amongst women of the night: drugs, money and prostitution.

Trash Land
In southern Mozambique, in the heart of Maputo and just a few meters from the airport of the capital, is the dump of Huléne.

Painful Love
Ninja has 42 years and is a drug addict for 20. Nowadays he lives in an abandoned house in Olhão that for him, resembles a paradise compared to the cells where he passed over two decades.

Gypsies Portraits
The history of the gypsies still stumbles around deep controversies and its condition remains tied in a complex lacing of mysteries and doubts.