Vasco Pinhol went out when 17 and has yet to come back. He really likes the outskirts of comfort zones, especially the ones that can get you into serious trouble. He can write, but realized long ago that photographing may be the quickest bridge into his mind. He has two sunburned eyes, two salt-cracked hands. He has two children, a crazy superlative mate and a dog that looks like a wolf. He’s quietly happy and wilts when not in water.
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Born in 1962.
Photographs since 1970, photographs in the water since 1980.
1992 Itinerant Photo exhibition on Travels in Sahara (sponsored by Nikon, Shell Oil, IBM and others)
1992 Sponsored by Nikon Portugal
1996 Collective exhibition, CPAS, Lisboa, Portugal
1996 First portfolios published in Portuguese magazines
1997 represents Portugal in the First World Championship of Creative Underwater Photography, in Paris
1998 Photographer for the official Expo’98 book (cover photo, and others
1998 represents Portugal in the World Championship of Underwater Photography, Norway
2000 Collective exhibition, itinerant, on Nature Photography, Portugal
2000 represents Portugal in the World Championship of Underwater Photography, Egypt
2001 Collective exhibition, Sagres, Portugal
2002 first solo exhibition in Norway
2002 itinerante collective exhibition, Portugal
2002 represents Portugal in the World Championship of Underwater Photography, Cassis, France
2002 solo exhibition, Norway
2003 collective exhibition, Norway
2004 photographic portfolio published in several web-based international magazines
2005 portfolio published in several print magazines in Portugal
2006 jury of the World Championship of Underwater Photography, in Spain
2007 solo exhibition, Norway
2009 – 2015 several collective and solo exhibitions within the collective Shemouse, in Portugal
2011 solo exhibition, “The Trouble with Water” Museu Mãe d’Água, Lisboa, Portugal
2012 photo portfolio published in Expresso, Única Magazine, Portugal
2012 collaboration with painter João Ribeiro in several large scale “cadavres exquis”
2014 collaboration with US-based jazz composer and musicologist for a series of CD covers released internationally
2014 solo exhibition, “O Ser”, Lisboa, Portugal
2015 collective exhibition, “Vitis Vinifera”, Oeiras, Portugal
2015 solo exhibition, “Coisas Parecidas com Outras Coisas”, Lisboa, Portugal
2017 Photography book “A Viagem que Ainda Ninguém Fez”, together with Luis Segadães
2018 Photography in book “BacalhauBiblioteket”, Norway, with Trudi Henrydotter Eikrem and Trude Antonie Øvrebøe
2018 Photography and design in book «Vi Blir Yngre Med Årene», Norway, with Harald Grytten
2019 Co-author (Photography) of book “Klippfisk”, BacalhauBiblioteket, Skald Forlag
2019 Colaboração artística com Ana Mesquita e João Gil, vídeos para trípticos
2020 Music videos for composer João Gil (youTube)
2021 Collective exhibition – with participation of Her Majesty the Queen of Norway, in Alnes, Norway
2021 Photography Exhibition “Em Águas de Bacalhau / In Cod we Trust”, Tagus Park, Oeiras, Portugal
2021 Music videos for composer João Gil (youTube)
2022 Photography Exhibition“Peixografia”, Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo, Portugal
2022 Artistic collaboration for Video-Wall : Viagem Pelo Esquecimento (João Gil, Ana Mesquita, Mia Couto)
2022 Creation and production of a seventy-meter long photo to be half submerged along the channel of Brosundet, in collaboration with the event Brosundet Langs, led by Karoline Isaksen (Ålesund, Norway)
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