The photographs on display are the result of the 11th international open call developed by MIRA Galerias. We aim to bring together a significant collection of photographs taken with pinhole cameras—built, adapted, or purchased—using any sensitive material, analog or digital, and which, in some way, are representative of the great plasticity of this technique. We received photographs from all over the world!

There are four curators for this edition – Adelino Marques, António Martins Teixeira, Augusto Lemos, and Rui Apolinário – responsible for selecting the photographs to be included in the exhibition.

We welcome with equal enthusiasm the works that bring us perspectives, emotions, and feelings from different parts of the world. All different, but all testifying that we are humanity. The works on display and projected are a testament to the fact that pinhole photography has followers who keep alive, in the contemporary world, the magic of one of the oldest forms of photography.

SHORTLIST:

Ana Hernandez, Anna Melnikova, Bertrand Corbara, Chris Byrnes, Christoph Klein, Clarisse Clozier, Conceição Magalhães, Dave Levingston, Diana Pankova, Duarte Costa, Edward Powers, Erica Von Essen, Filipe Carneiro, Francesco Coccia, Goreti Ferraz, Ivan Piano, Ivan Rivera, Jan Hinderson, Jeff McConnell, Jorma Onkinen, Ksawery Wrobel, Kümei Kirschmann, Laurent Nicolle, Leonardo Kussler, Magdalena Nowak, Manuela Vaz, Mark Fohl, Martina Bertolini, Marzenak Kolarz, Michal Kucera, Miroslav Radomski, Nick Dvoracek, Niels Hansen, Óscar Valério, Peter de Graaff, Peter Ostlund, Piotr Cieślak, René Vonk, Robert Gast, Robert Strahinjic, Roman Baran, Ronald Butler, Ruth Güse, Siim Vahur, Spiffy Tumbleweed, Stefano Marcovaldi, Stoyan Iliev, Tim Raedisch, Vincent Sebastian, Yuko Warashina, Zilvinas Glusinskas, Robin Bjerkhaug