João Pedro Almeida
Lisbon, Portugal
I'm a freelance photographer based in Lisbon, Portugal. I'm passionate for travel and telling the stories of the places and its people.
For a long time I've had a great interest in photography, ever since my father gave me his old Yashica rangefinder when I was a boy. Photography has followed me ever since, I always kept a camera close to me and as I was growing I became more interested to know more about it. It became the way to document the world around me, fueling my interest in travel.
Nowadays my style hasn't shifted dramatically, the genres that I inhabit are roughly the same, but my interests have slowly been shifting towards documentary photography, in order to tell stories, even if some of my projects might take years to end.
2017 - Sony World Photography Awards, 2014 - Travel Photographer of the Year
- Breaking news
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interior
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Reporting
Lazarim and its Alder Masks
João Pedro Almeida
Lazarim, a quiet small village tucked at Montemuro mountain range, set apart from the many places in northern Portugal and Spain with strong masked festivities with elaborate wooden masks made with alder.