Patrícia Almeida

1970. Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.

She has studied History at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Photography at Goldsmiths College (University of London). She is interested on documentary photography as a field of research and artistic creation, and has been doing projects on the relationship between people and their environment. In 2009, she is nominated for the most prestigious prize on Portuguese Contemporary Photography – Besphoto – for her book and exhibition 'Portobello'.

She has shown her work regularly in Portugal (Museu Berardo, Fundação de Serralves, Encontros da Imagem de Braga, or Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra) and in Europe (Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts of Liège,(BL) Galerie Nouvelles Images in Den Haag (NL), Forum für Fotografie in Köln (DE) or Pôle Image Haute Normandie in Rouen (FR)).

Since 2002 she is a member of POC/Piece of Cake, a network of European artists working with photography and video, and participates on collective shows and workshops with this group in Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Holland and France.

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