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Alexandre Coelho Lima, architect, was born in Porto in 1965 and lives in Guimarães. In 1995 he joined the company Pitagoras Group, where he currently works. He discovered photography by registering on Instagram in 2012, where he began sharing his photos regularly, being featured on several platforms. In 2018, Gerador elected him “Best Instagramer of 2017 in Portugal”. He has participated in several group exhibitions and had a solo show in 2018 at Pequena Galeria, in Lisbon.

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ANA LOIRA

Born in Minho and living in Porto for two decades. With a degree in Communication and a professional career in marketing and advertising agencies, specializing in photography was a natural path over the years - the camera accompanies me at work, and especially in my free days, where, without a destination or a clock, I look for moments of connection with what is strange/unknown to me.

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ANA SOUSA

I began exploring analogue photography as a self-taught practice in December 2019, after acquiring my first camera – an Olympus OM1. Since then, I’ve been experimenting with various formats and approaches, gradually building a collection of cameras that range from medium format to handmade pinhole boxes I construct myself.

I’m deeply interested in the entire photographic process, from the moment of capturing the image to the final darkroom print. I also devote myself to alternative techniques such as pinhole photography and cyanotype printing.

I photograph driven by curiosity and a need to express something personal. My intention is never to reproduce reality, but rather to interpret it through what I observe and feel. My fascination with time – both contemplative and restless – has always been the foundation of my photographic practice, which naturally finds its space within the surrealist sphere.

Among my main sources of inspiration are photographers such as Eugène Atget, André Kertész, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Karl Blossfeldt, and Fernando Lemos. In literature, I’m influenced by authors like Italo Calvino, Haruki Murakami, Milan Kundera, Michel Houellebecq and Philip K. Dick.

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ANTÓNIO CARDOSO

Hello. I'm António but everyone calls me Xico. I'm a colorblind coffee machine technician from Valongo and this is my hobby. It started when my girlfriend needed a small repair on her analog camera, and everything that's repaired has to be tested, right? I've been testing ever since. I mostly shoot analog, I feel like I'm still trying to find my style but the best of my work is in black and white. I hope that one day it will be more than just a hobby, for the sake of my back.

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CARLOS FELÍCIO

Carlos Felício traded numbers for light, exchanged formulas for film grain and found his true passion in analogue photography. As the master of Photo Dealers, he has turned the store at Rua Oliveira Monteiro, nº 368, into a refuge for all who live and breathe film.

His mission is simple but powerful: to bring analogue photography back into the hands of everyone, without price being an obstacle. With his own hands, he rolls each roll, ensuring that capturing moments continues to be an act of love, not a luxury. Passionate about landscapes and portraits, he welcomes each visitor with the same curiosity and enchantment as someone seeing the world for the first time.

At Photo Dealers, we don’t just sell cameras and film—we share stories, inspirations and the certainty that photography is, above all, an act of freedom.

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CARLOS RIBEIRO

Carlos Ribeiro (b. 1962) A practicing lawyer (still). When he was a kid, Adriano Correia de Oliveira gave him a guitar, a little worn out from so much use, just to “play around”. From then on, after a quick learning course, he became a bass player, having collaborated on several musical projects and related areas of more or less obscure interest, with no other interest than the pleasure of using and enjoying music.

Passionate about photography, it was during the COVID lockdowns that he began to dedicate himself more frequently to his practice, with a special focus on street and documentary photography, having exhibited in a number of exhibitions, both individually and collectively.

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CARLOS TIZA

He attended the photography course at the Portuguese Institute of Photography.

He writes poetry.

Photography became his way of expressing himself poetically, it is a complement to the written word, a more sensorial, visual and direct poetry. He is a poet of flash, spotlights, twilight light and headlights. A master of night photography, he is attracted to the dark aspect of light. He writes and feels through light, silver salts. His work is most prominent in photojournalism and nature photography. You can find him in the north of the country looking for the perfect music in the middle of the trails of mountains and valleys. He always presents an image of human unity in his photographs.

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