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Miguel Rodrigues

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Professor at IADE / European University, in Lisbon
Professor at the Polytechnical Intitute of Tomar, in Tomar
Professor at Atelier de Lisboa - Escola de Fotografia e Centro de Artes Visuais.
Curator at Sala 2 / Urso Hermético.
(Lisbon, 1978)
I Work and live between Tomar and Lisbon
I started photography by chance. I was studying philosophy and needed a hobby that could take me away from thinking and reading all the time, provinding me with a more immediate relation to the world around me. I didn't go well. The camera became an instrument of inquiry into the world around me and what was supposed to be a hobby became the center of my attention.
I ended up studying photography, firstly through technical courses and then in academia, through a masters degree and a PhD. This has somehow brought me back to philosophy in my academic writing. I am now a teacher of photography at two universities in Portugal.
My interest in the medium is the way lens based representation affects how we perceive our immediate environment; how the use of linear perspective forces us to detatch and how that affects how we imagine ourselves in space. For this, I have dedicated my attention as a photographer to my daily commute. I find it provides the perfect predicament for the paradox I study: the clash between immersion and perspectival representation in the way I feel, think and act in space.

EDUCATION

PhD in Fine Arts (multimedia), Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (2025)

Masters in Multimedia Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (2018)

Studies in Photography at Atelier de Lisboa - Photography School and Fine Arts Centre (2009 - 2013) under António Júlio Duarte, Bruno Pelletier Sequeira, Federico Clavarino, Jem Southam and Paulo Catrica.

SOLO SHOWS

(upcoming) Carpe Diem
Lisbon, Espaço D’Alte
2026

Carpe Diem - Houdini is Not Dead
International Festiva Encontros da Imagem
Porto, Maus Hábitos
2022

Birds are Windy
Lisbon, Atelier de Lisboa
2018

17 Studies
Lisbon, Arquivo 237,
2016

Dezassete Estudos Sobre a Personalidade (Web)site specific
Raum.pt/atelier-de-lisboa
2015

GROUP SHOWS

Centro
Coletivo Sala 2 - Exposição #1
Lisboa, Espaço D’Alte
2025

Carpe Diem
By Invitation Only
Lisboa, Galeria Passe Vite
2023

Carpe Diem - Houdini is Not Dead
A Invenção da Amnésia Collective,
Tomar, Casa dos Cubos - Photography and Territory Cicle
2021

R
What’s the Urgency? winners of contest for Urbanautica
Treviso, Lab27

Carpe Diem - Houdini is Not Dead
A Invenção da Amnésia Collective,
Museu da Paisagem (online)
2021

Carpe Diem - Houdini is Not Dead
A Invenção da Amnésia Collective,Gravida Congue
Setúbal, Casa D’Avenida
2020

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