Documentary about Fernando Guerra

“The Flying Photographer” from Building Pictures

a Building Pictures directed by Sara Nunes
cinematograher: Sara Nunes
montage and edition: Sara Nunes e Maria Gonçalves
color grading: Fernando Machado
soundesign: Ana Pedro
soundtrack: Bruno Pinto Ferreira (+ Sara Nunes)
subtitles: Eva Magro (+ Sara Nunes)
motion graphics: Jua Braga

Documentary about Fernando Guerra

Music of the Documentary “The Flying Photographer” about Fernando Guerra
Soundtrack: Bruno Ferreira (+ Sara Nunes)

Focos de Paixão: Fernando Guerra e Porsche / Lands/Læns: i paesaggi di Fernando Guerra

FOCOS DE PAIXÃO: Fernando Guerra e Porsche
A Porsche sob o olhar de um dos maiores fotógrafos contemporâneos em Portugal

1 Dezembro – 3 Março 2019

Museu do Caramulo
Fundação Abel e João de Lacerda

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LANDS/LÆNS
i paesaggi di Fernando Guerra

21 Dicembre 2018 – 27 Gennaio 2019

Museo di Palazzo Pretorio

POP-SE BRASIL

Almost Drone: Entrevista a Fernando Guerra.PDF

Há cinco décadas, o fotógrafo norte-americano Eddie Adams, da Associated Press, registrou um chefe de polícia vietnamita no exato momento em que disparou a arma na cabeça de um vietcongue. A foto, “Execução em Saigon” (1968), virou um ícone contra a Guerra do Vietnã. Ao ganhar o Pulitzer de fotografia, Adams disse: “Duas pessoas morreram naquela imagem: quem recebeu a bala e o chefe de polícia. Ele matou o vietcongue; e eu o matei com a minha câmera. A fotografia é a arma mais poderosa do mundo”. Fernando Guerra, apesar da sugestão do sobrenome, não seguiu os passos de Adam, mas tem um dos olhares mais certeiros de registro do espaço habitado pelo homem no século 21. Conquistou o respeito de mestres da arquitetura encabeçados pelo Pritzker Prize, de Álvaro Siza à elite do neo-modernismo brasilis, de Isay Weinfeld a Marcio Kogan. Suas fotos estão no acervo do MoMA, de Nova York, e foi eleito embaixador da Canon Europa. Na hora do clique decisivo de sua fotografia de arquitetura, Guerra consegue registrar o formalismo geométrico e poético da obra naquele átimo sublime em que a luz banha a volumetria e os vazios em todo o seu esplendor, e ainda consegue nela imantar sutis camadas de informação que humanizam suas imagens magistrais. O premiado fotógrafo português de 48 anos vem capturando a mais bela arquitetura contemporânea dos sete continentes há duas décadas em sociedade com seu irmão Sergio Guerra, administrador do renomado estúdio lisboeta que responde pela sigla FG+SG. Na estreia dessa POP-SE, que flerta essencialmente com a casa e outros sustentáculos da vida contemporânea, pinçamos algumas das imagens mais emblemáticas de seu portfólio, absolutamente conectado ao seu lero-lero na entrevista a seguir. Com vocês, o homem por trás da máquina… ler mais

CANON EOS R

Introducing the new EOS R

Three decades ago, the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger was one of the biggest stories of the year. But that year also saw the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos, the passing by of Halley’s Comet, the crash of Aeromexico flight 498 above Los Angeles and, of course, the Chernobyl accident.

In Portugal, far away from almost everything, we had the most divisive presidential election ever, and we finally joined the European Community. To be honest, for me at the age of 16, the challenge was to avoid pimples on my face and to begin the next-to-last year of school before entering university to study architecture.

It was during that endless 1986 summer vacation, in early July, that something came to change my life forever: I got my first camera and that’s where it all started. The journey began with a recently released Canon T90. It was the camera I had chosen. Maybe I was attracted to its design, since I understood very little about photography and there are simpler cameras to start with than that one, never stoped me. From that moment on, it was rare to leave the house without a camera, together with two or three rolls of film. It was without understanding very well what I wanted to do that I would do it.

The internet did not exist and my only resources were the indispensable magazines that were available. And of course, a great deal of perseverance. To learn from one’s mistakes… A still very contemporary way to learn what you don’t know, but sometimes easily forgotten.

Dozens of cameras and lenses later, many of which still keep me company as a testimony to their important role in the images I have created during my life, like they are a journey’s milestones but today, September 5th, I am in Perpignan, France, to tell you about the till now very secret Canon mirrorless, in my role as a brand ambassador.

I will exhaustively test the camera on my various assignments that start in just a few days on the other side of the Atlantic. Already have my own EOS R and it’s time to rock!

The journey from the adolescent who persuades his parents to buy the most sophisticated camera on the market to becoming a brand ambassador has been special. Perhaps because it was my own journey and perhaps also because it was not outlined in advance. It just happened.

The enthusiasm of having a new camera is still as great as it was 30 years ago and the fact that I am one of the first people to use it is a unique opportunity shared only by my fellow ambassadors around the world. And, of course, by my friend Joel Santos.

It has been special to be part of the Canon team for some years now. I took part in the launch of the canon 5DR, a camera that I’ve used daily for the past 4 years and that is the basis of what I do and the images I produce.

My public association with brands is restricted to only those that I actually use, and for those who trust my work, my mission is to convey the message of why they are the best, if they really are- and what their advantages are.

Currently, 90% of what I shoot is done with one camera and one lens. Just 1. Simple and effective for someone who spend his life on the go. The more that time passes and the more that I take pictures, the less I need loads of equipment with me. A new camera is always an element that can cause as much of a disturbance as it can inspiration.

I’ve spent some time with the EOS R and I’m really impressed. I’m heading to South America in a few days for some big projects and this camera will be top of my kit bag for all of my assignments. I can’t wait to see what we can do.

Shooting is not a job. It’s a way of life, an obsession to be lived every day of the year. I’ll be sharing my upcoming experiences with the new EOS R here on Instagram and on Canon’s website, and if you have any questions, get in touch.

I’m going to test this camera to its limits, it’s going to be fun and I hope you’ll follow along. Thanks for being there with me.

Fernando Guerra

ÁLVARO SIZA VIEIRA

des Hommes . de la Matière . du Temps
Álvaro Siza Vieira
13.04.18 – 13.05.18

Exposition à la Chapelle des Carmélites, Toulouse – France

The Association “des Hommes, de la Matière et du Temps” is pleased to present its first exhibition dedicated to the work of the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza, in the prestigious Carmelite Chapel in Toulouse.
A selection of projects, linked to the themes of Living, Rehabilitating etc. will be exhibited, based on the archives of Álvaro Siza Vieira’s studio.
The Association, non-profitable, according to the law of 1901, has set itself the goal of disclosing the work of men and women with a masterful relationship between a Matter, Time and Men, foremost among which, the Architecture.
Álvaro Siza was born in 1933 in Matosinhos, near Porto. He began his career as an architect in the studio of his teacher and friend Fernando Tàvora before founding his own agency in Porto. After promising and discreet beginnings that the first international critics report, the reconstruction of Chiado in Lisbon designates him as the greatest architect of his country. Follow numerous and important orders which each time testify to a singular contribution to the international production, quickly recognized by all school of architecture of Porto, Galician center of Contemporary Art of Santiago de Compostela, Pavilion of Portugal at the Universal Exhibition of 1998, Church of Marco de Canaveses, Museum of the Serralves Foundation, etc. He also builds abroad, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Brazil, South Korea, France. He received the Pritzker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Lion of Venice in 2002.

The Chapel of the Carmelites: Only remnant of the convent of the Carmelites, destroyed during the Revolution. Built in the seventeenth century and decorated in the eighteenth century, the Chapel is notable for its baroque architecture, rare in the pink city and impressive wall paintings signed Jean Rivalz. Behind a blind portal, the Chapel protects itself from the street by a courtyard, paved with pebbles of rivers. The few steps separating us from the main space allow us to discover it on a low-angle view. The light, rare and precious, ricochets on the gilding of its decorations for more than three centuries. This frame, as mysterious as it is voicing, is the one in which the first chapter of our movement is written.

LUBANGO CENTRE / PROMONTORIO

FERNANDO GUERRA FG+SG
LUBANGO CENTRE / PROMONTORIO ARCHITECTS

FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Issue #181 presents the visual narration by Fernando Guerra of an apartment block designed by Portuguese architectural office Promontorio in Lubango, Angola. Guerra narrates more than a piece of architecture. He explores the relations between the building and the urban contexts, portrait daily life scenes dense of dichotomic beauty.

ISSUE #181
SEPTEMBER 2018
32 PAGES – 14.8 X 21 CM
COLOR DIGITAL
STAPLE BOUND
FINE RECYCLED PAPER
EDITION OF 100
ISSN 2532-523X
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EXPOSIÇÃO CCB — GARAGEM SUL

FERNANDO GUERRA: Raio X de uma Prática Fotográfica
Curadoria Luís Santiago Baptista
11 JUL — 15 OUT

Workshop de Fotografia
22-23 SET 10h-17h

Debate de Encerramento
7 OUT 17h