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
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

References

Other websites

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

Category:Living people
Category:Photographers
Category:Portuguese photographers
Category:People from Lisbon
Category:1970 births
Category:Photojournalists