Joao Sa e Sousa
Profile/CV
Name: João Pedro Gouveia Sá e Sousa
Address:
Telephone: 00351 964684698
E-mail: saesousa@gmail.com
Date of Birth: 28/06/80
Work Experience
October 2001 – Present
Freelance Photographer
Main responsibilities: capturing high quality images for commercial purposes or Art events, promoting own work through individual and collective exhibitions.
September 2009 – November 2010
A Gallery and GG Gallery, London
Gallery Assistant
Main responsibilities: Mounting exhibitions, customer service, contacting clients, promoting events and art work, attracting new clients, documenting events, assisting with the transport of exhibitions and collections, maintaining the building on a daily basis, investigating and resolving invoice problems, handling telephone inquiries, internal and external mail.
May 2007 – June 2009
Creative Photos, Swansea
Nightclub Photographer
Main responsibilities: Dealing with nightclub clients, customer service, selling images captured in the venue, administrative duties (completing stock sheets, doing equipment inventories, banking and receiving payments from customers).
October 2005 – June 2006
Way – Marketing and Advertising Solutions, Lisbon
Events Promoter
Main responsibilities: Promoting products, supervising teams in promotional events, handling correspondence and taking pictures of the events promoted.
September 2004 – January 2005
“Diário de Coimbra”, Portuguese Newspaper
Photojournalist
Main responsibilities: News coverage, image edition, P.R. photography.
Education
October 2006 – June 2009
Swansea Metropolitan University
BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts (2:1)
October 2005 – June 2006
ETIC Technical School of Image and Communication, Lisbon
Certificate of Professional Aptitude to carry out the profession of
Fashion/Advertising Photographer.
November 2002 – December 2003
CENJOR – Protocol Centre of Professional Training for Journalists, Lisbon
Certificate of Professional Aptitude to carry out the profession of
Photojournalist
Published Work
Work published in magazines, press and exhibition catalogues:
June 2009 - “Free Range” final Degree show, exhibition catalogue.
September 2004 to January 2005 - Press “Diario de Coimbra”.
May 2004 – “Homage to Coimbra’s Photographers”, Exhibition Catalogue.
January 2004 – “Via Latina Lusofonia AAC”, central page.
May 2003 – “Primeiras Imagens”, photographic coverage of Coimbra Film Festival.
Exhibitions
Colective Exhibitions
June 2009 – “Finem Respice”, Final Degree show (Free Range) at the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London.
May 2009 – “Finem Respice”, Final Degree show at the Dynevor Campus, Swansea Metropolitan University.
November 2008 – “Our Summer” at Swansea Grand Theatre.
September – October 2008 – “Escape from Plato’s Cave”, National Art Students Annual Awards 2008 at Today Art Museum in Beijing, China.
June 2008 – “Primer festival de fotografía de Sevilla” in Seville, Spain.
May 2008 – “Anima Animus”, second year exhibition at the Dynevor Campus, Swansea Metropolitan University.
November 2007- “33”, Site Specific at the Norwegian Church, Swansea Marina.
May 2007 – “I Am Space”, first year exhibition at the Dynevor Campus, Swansea Metropolitan University.
May 2004 – “Homage Coimbra’s Photographers”, Casa da Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal.
May 2003 – “SOS Estudante” at Gil Vicent Academic Theatre in Coimbra, Portugal.
December 2002 - “SOS Estudante”at International Exhibition of Lisbon, Portugal.
Individual Exhibitions
March-April 2004 – “Multiburst: a simple perspective” 60 images exhibited in 6 different spaces in Coimbra, Portugal. Supported by the Academic Association of Coimbra.
November 2003 - Digital Psicadelic projection at A.A.C Coimbra.
April 2002 – “Macro Point of View”, exhibited in the main streets of Coimbra.
October-November 2001-“Hinton an Industrial Space” at Cafe Santa Cruz, Coimbra.
Website www.agallery.co.uk/gallery/joao_sa_e_sousa.php?pg=1
