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  2. Luís Martins Pisco (aka piscografia/piscographia/Azul Cobalto Porto/Lente Progressiva), is a photographer born in Lisbon, graduated in Anthropology and father of two daughters, who has lived and worked in Porto since the spring of 2001.

    In an autumn of the eighties he acquired his first camera and since then he observes and photographs his daily journeys through the cities he visits.

    From this roadtrip through everyday life in search of places, light, movement and states of mind, personal visual diaries are born whose documentary nature is deepened over time, as in the serie More Pictures About Dark Cities and Vacant Buildings, which was built along of several decades.

    Influenced by the work of authors such as Daido Moriyama, Martins Parr, Saul Leiter, Robert Doisneau, Alec Soth, Trent Park and many others, he photographs the transformations in the urban and social landscape of Porto and its surroundings, in images that have been published in the Another Postcards collection, that the author launched in 2018, or in ongoing series such as Besieged/Silent Screams, Once were Tripeiros, Suburban landscapes or the unspeakable poetry of surrounding areas, or Urban Gardening.

    In 2017, he launches Azul Cobalto Porto, through which he sells part of his photographic collection dedicated to Porto, in the Another Porto Postcards collection, as well as works by other artists. In 2022 he creates the Cobalt Blue Press label through which he has been publishing part of his work in low cost limited editions

  3. Exhibitions
    Centro de Artes e Espetáculos da Figueira da Foz (Outubro de 2006)
    Clube Literário do Porto (Janeiro de 2007)
    Fórum Municipal Luísa Todi, Setúbal (Fevereiro de 2007)
    Hospital Pedro Hispano (Março de 2007)
    Biblioteca Municipal de Albufeira (Abril de 2007)
    Café Paju (Porto, Maio de 2007)
    Café com Arte (Coimbra, Junho de 2007)
    Galeria Municipal de Alter-do-Chão (Julho e Agosto de 2007)
    Biblioteca Municipal de Barcelos (Setembro de 2007)
    Fórum Vallis Longus (Valongo, Fevereiro de 2008)
    Galeria Municipal das Lajes do Pico (Açores, 2008)
  4. Collective Exhibitions
    O Tempo – 4º concurso de Fotografia da CAIS, estação da Baixa-Chiado, Lisboa, Estação da Trindade, 2006
    De Caras, Espaço ALT (Porto 2009) Blogwall, Espaço ALT (Porto, 2010)
    Gentes Lugares e Quotidianos: Fotografias sociais do Grande Porto, Centro Português de Fotografia
    Fanzineist, Vienna, 2023
    Into the Open, Vienna, 2023, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, curadora Fiona Irene Graf
  5. Photozines, Books & other adventures
    Last flowers for the hospital, Cobalt Blue Press, 2023
    Urban Gardening, Cobalt Blue Press
    Amsterdam, essay on the use of bicycles in a urban environment, Cobalt Blue Press
    What a fool I am/à rasca, Cobalt Blue Press
    Three days in Paris, Photos about clichês and mass tourism, Cobalt Blue Press
    More Pictures about Dark Cities and Vacant Buildings, 1986-2014, Cobalt Blue Press
    De Caras. Alt Books, 2009
    CRUZ, Hugo. Pais… Uma Experiência. Porto, Editorial Papiro, 2006 (capa)