Macau: between trips

These are images captured in transit between Europe and Asia in the years from 1999 to 2007. They are photographs taken on the fringe of a project on which I work each year: photographing the daily lives of some Chinese ex-students of mine, friends whom I got to know between 1994 and 1998, when I lived in Macau, and with whom I have strengthened the bond more recently. They began as photographs of moments, taken for no apparent reason, which have come to constitute, in themselves, a separate body of work.

José Maçãs de Carvalho

A photographer and video artist born in Anadia, Portugal in 1960, José Maçãs de Carvalho has a degree in Modern Languages and Literature from the University of Coimbra and a post-graduate degree in Arts Management from the Institute of European Studies of Macau. In the nineties, he lived in Macau working as an Invited Assistant at the Macau Polytechnic Institute and serving as Pedagogical Co-ordinator of Educational Television. His works have appeared in dozens of solo and group exhibitions in Macau, Brazil, Portugal and several other European countries.