Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro

**Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro** (born April 4,1979) is a Portuguese photojournalist and documentary photographer. He has lived in Macau, China, since 2010.

Over his career, he has won several awards and held many photography exhibitions, both on his own and as part of groups. In 2023, he won first place in the series category at the Paraty em Foco International Photography Festival in Brazil. He was also one of the winners of the 8th edition of the Open Call Poster Mostra in Lisbon, Portugal, in the same year.

## Biography

Gonçalo completed high school at Escola Secundária Gil Vicente. He started studying Geological Engineering at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1997 but later switched to Communication Sciences with a focus on Journalism at the Autonomous University of Lisbon. He finished this degree in 2005. He also has a master’s degree in Documentary Photography from LABASAD in Barcelona.

Gonçalo began working with photography in 2000. In 2002, he started a professional internship at the news agency _Intermeios_. For six years, he worked as a photographer for the newspaper _A Bola_. He also worked with other newspapers like _Público_, _Correio da Manhã_, _Diário de Notícias_, _Expresso_, _The Guardian_, _BBC_, and _The Washington Post_.

From 2004 to 2010, he was the official photographer for Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury in Portugal.

After moving to Macau, he worked at the newspaper Hoje Macau from 2010 to 2014 as a writer, photojournalist, and editor. He was the photography coordinator for Macau magazine from 2011 to 2021 and worked as a multimedia journalist and editor for Plataforma Media from 2018 to 2021. He joined Ponto Final newspaper as a photojournalist and editor until mid-2023, and since November 2022, he has collaborated with Lusa News Agency and the European Pressphoto Agency.

Gonçalo has supported many charity projects and organizations, especially those focused on social and human rights causes. He joined the Italian collective Perimetro for the “United Photographers for Ukraine” and “Prints for Gaza” campaigns.

His work is represented by Icon Artes Galeria in Brazil and Galeria Amagao in Macau. His photographs are part of the contemporary collection of the Museum of Avant-garde in Switzerland, which will open in 2025. His books can be found in libraries around the world, including the National Library of Portugal, the Library of Congress in the U.S., the National Library of France, the National Library of Germany, and the Central Library of Macau.

### Publications by Pinheiro

- 2015: _Macau 5.0 | 澳門 5.0 | Macao 5.0_. Macao. .
- 2019: _Myanmar: o retrato de um povo_. Rui Cunha Foundation, Macao. .
- 2021: _Desvelo • 關愛 • Zeal_. Ipsis Verbis, Macao.
- 2021: _Tonle Sap_. Artisan Raw, Brazil.
- 2022: _O que foi, não volta a ser..._. Ipsis Verbis, Macao. .
- 2023: _Um vislumbre de luz • 一瞥光亮 • A glimpse of light_. Ipsis Verbis, Macao.
- 2024: _Close to Me_, Ipsis Verbis, Macau

### Publications with others

- 2012: _The Harmony of Disability_, edição coletiva - Associação de Fotógrafos de Imprensa Desportiva, Macau
- 2013: _Antologia Luso-Brasileira de Fotografia Contemporânea – Volume IV – 'Essência e Memória_', edição coletiva, Chiado Editora, Portugal
- 2020: _Cidades vazias com gente dentro_ - Volume II, edição coletiva, Almalusa e iNstantes, Portugal
- 2020: _Everydaycovid. Diários fotográficos em estado de emergência_, edição de autor coletiva, Portugal
- 2020: _The Other Hundred - Healers_, edição coletiva - Global Institute For Tomorrow, Hong Kong
- 2021: _#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis_, edição coletiva, International Center of Photography and G Editions (Glitterati Editions), EUA
- 2021: _Narratives in the Oriente_, edição coletiva, Fundação Oriente, Macau
- 2021: _Era uma vez Jorge Sampaio - Histórias e imagens_, edição coletiva, Tinta-da-China, Portugal
- 2022: _The Year Time Stopped: The Global Pandemic In Photos_, edição coletiva, HarperCollins, EUA

## Awards

- 2007: 1st place, Liberty Best Moment category, Liberty Seguros Photojournalism Awards
- 2009: 2nd place, Liberty Best Moment category, Liberty Seguros Photojournalism Awards
- 2018: 3rd place, Portrait category, Chromatic Photography Awards
- 2018: 2nd place, Architecture category, Chromatic Photography Awards
- 2018: Silver, One Eyeland Photography Awards
- 2019: 3rd place, Architecture category, Fine Art Photography Awards
- 2019: Finalist and Editors' favorite submission, National Geographic Travel Photos Contest
- 2019: Winner, Latin American Fotografía 8, American Illustration and American Photography (AI-AP)
- 2020: Winner, series category, "Macau 2020 - A Time for Introspection", Macau Closer
- 2021: Bronze, Press/Sports category, Px3|Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3)
- 2021: Winner and "Best of Best", Photography Masterprize Award - Architecture Masterprize
- 2022: Bronze, Moscow International Foto Awards, International Awards Inc.
- 2022: 2nd place, MonoVisions Photography Awards
- 2022: Silver, Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3)
- 2022: Gold, People / Family category, Budapest International Foto Awards, International Awards Inc.
- 2023: 8th edition Open Call winner, Poster Mostra
- 2023: Bronze, Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3)
- 2023: 1st place, winner essay category, Festival Internacional de Fotografia Paraty em Foco
- 2023: 3rd place, Special/Other category, International Photography Awards (IPA)
- 2023: 1st place, editorial/other and architecture/cityscape categories, Neutral Density Photography Awards (ND)
- 2023: Bronze, Editorial / Photo Essay category, Budapest International Foto Awards, International Awards Inc.
- 2024: Silver, Editorial/Photo Essay category, Tokyo International Foto Awards, International Awards Inc.
- 2024: Award of Excellence, POY Asia - Pictures of the Year Asia 2024
- 2024: Silver, The Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3)
- 2024: Bronze, Budapest International Foto Awards
- 2025: Silver, Tokyo International Foto Awards
- 2025: Gold, Budapest International Foto Awards

## Other websites

- Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro on Visura
- Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro on Macau Memory Project

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro
- **image**: Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro.jpg
- **caption**: Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro in 2020
- **birth place**: Alfama, Lisbon, Portugal
- **occupation**: Photojournalist
Documentary Photographer
- **alma mater**: Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa