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2010 ‘ THE WORLD THROUGH MY EYES’

ANA CARLOTA MEIRELLES PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

 

OPENING RECEPTION: JAN.21, THURS. 5:00PM TO 8:00PM, 2010

EXHIBITION DATES: JAN.22 TO JAN.25, 2010

VENUE:  XYZ GALLERY, 798 ART CENTER OF BEIJING (D05)

CONTACT INFORMATION: 010 8459 9299

ORGANIZED BY EMBASSY OF PORTUAL IN BEIJING

IN COLLBORATION WITH XYZ  GALLERY BEIJING

 

 

INTRODUCTIONARY ARTICLE

 

I remember to enjoy taking photos since I was a child. I took them from family , friends and also from places and people I knew,  during my childhood and adolescence in Mozambique,  where I was born.

 

This has allowed me, even today, to recall more vividly those already remote “good old days” spent in Africa, which I left when I was eighteen years old.

 

Maybe the preservation of the memory of those so dear and distant moments, kept through pictures of those unforgettable times, led me, through my whole life, lived in different countries, to want to retain photographically moments, sceneries and faces, which time with its unavoidably changes brings along and  allows us to revive our past, sometimes almost magically.

 

But only upon coming to China, in October 2006, together with my husband, then appointed Ambassador of Portugal, did I started to get seriously interested in photography. I was amazed by the first impressions of this fascinating country, for us still so different.

 

I started then using a small “Pentax Optico S” camera that I had bought for our vacation trip to Brazl in 2005. I remember to have spent my first months taking pictures all the time, to record all the “discoveries” that came under my eyes provided by this huge country, full of striking and impressive contrasts.

 

On the day my husband offered to me a new camera, a “Nikon D40x”, a simple hobby was converted, almost without notice, into something more serious to me. I found it out when we first traveled, in the summer 2007, to Gansu and Xinjiang where we went on vacation. Just for fun, I submitted two photos taken during that trip to a photo-contest in the USA organized within the “China-America Festival