José Pedro Cortes (Porto, Portugal, 1976). Studied photography at Ar.Co (Lisbon) and, in 2004 completed a Master of Arts in Photography at Kent Institute of Art and Design
(Rochester, UK). In 2005, after 3 years living in London, moved back to Lisbon and was part of Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme in Photography (Lisbon). In 2005 was selected for the Photo London – Emerging Artists Presentations and, in 2006, took part in the Getty Images curated exhibition New Photographers 2007.
Since 2005 has been exhibiting regularly in places like Museu da Imagem de Braga
("I will not reveal you", 2006, Braga), Centro Português de Fotografia ("Silence",
2006, Porto), at White Space Gallery ("José Pedro Cortes: Photography+Video", 2006,
London) and Módulo – Centro Difusor de Arte ("Like an empty yard", 2008 e "Moi,
un blanc", 2011, Lisbon).
In 2006 published his first book 'Silence' and, in 2011, his second book, 'Things here and things still to come', was published in November 2011 by Pierre von Kleist editions.
In 2011 was selected for the European Photo Exhibition Award (with other 11 European photographers). This work will be shown in four Museums in 2012, Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris, Fondazione Banca del Monte in Lucca, and the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo.
In 2012 he was also selected for the project European Eyes on Japan, commissioned by EU-Japan Fest to photograph in Toyama (Japanese prefecture).

He is the co-founder and co-editor of Pierre von Kleist editions (founded in 2009, with nine books published).

 

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