José Silva Pinto

José Silva Pinto (1959, Lobito, Angola) moved with his family to Portugal in 1975. He attended high school in Lisbon, and after reaching adulthood, began a circuit of travels, always under the pretext of education and work: in Zurich, he studied biotechnology; in the Netherlands, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry; and he traveled through the former USSR, Germany, France, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Gabon. He returned to Angola in 2000 and has lived in Luanda since then. It was here that he put an end to his professional routines and dedicated himself exclusively to photography. His professional studio, where he works on advertising projects, enables him to finance long work-related trips abroad.