Draft:Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro

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

Winner of several awards throughout his career   , Pinheiro also held several exhibitions, both in his own name and in collectives. Special highlight for first place, series category, in the 2023 edition of Paraty em Foco - International Photography Festival, in Brazil, and for being, also in 2023, one of the winners of the 8th edition of the initiative's Open Call Poster Mostra, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Education
He attended and completed secondary education at Escola Secundária Gil Vicente. After four years studying Geological Engineering at the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Almada, which he entered in 1997, he concluded that his interests lay elsewhere and enrolled in a degree in Communication Sciences, Journalism variant, at Autonomous University of Lisbon, a course he completed in 2005. He also has a master's degree in Documentary Photography from LABASAD - Escola Superior de Artes e Design de Barcelona.

Work
He began working with photography in 2000 and, two years later, began his professional internship at the now extinct news agency Intermeios. For six years he was part of the team of photographers at the newspaper A Bola as a collaborator. From its foundation until August 2010, he was part of the team of photographers at the newspaper I. He collaborated or published his photos in several Portuguese and international titles, including Público, Correio da Manhã, Diário de Notícias, Expresso, The Guardian, BBC or The Washington Post, among others.

Between 2004 and 2010 he was, in Portugal, official photographer for Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury.

Arriving in Macau, he joined the newspaper Hoje Macau, where he served as writer, photojournalist and editor between 2010 and 2014. He was photography coordinator for the magazine Macau, Portuguese version, between 2011 and 2021. He was also, between 2018 and 2021, a journalist multimedia and editor at Plataforma Media a project of the Global Media group. Between 2021 and mid-2023, he was part of the editorial staff of the newspaper Ponto Final as a photojournalist and editor. Since November 2022 he has collaborated with Lusa News Agency, and his work is also disseminated by European Pressphoto Agency.

Since 2018, he has been one of the official photographers of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). He is one of the founding members of Halftone - Macau Photographic Association.

In 2021, Pinheiro teamed up with the Chinese skateboard brand Maven and Macau-based skateboard store Exit to make a line of three skateboards and apparel dedicated to Macau.

In 2022, he represented Macau in the ninth edition of the iNstantes – Avintes International Photography Festival in Portugal, with the black-and-white series Perto de mim, made in 2021.

Throughout his professional career, he has used his photographic work to support various charitable projects and NGOs, particularly social and human rights causes. She joined the Italian collective Perimetro in the "United Photographers for Ukraine" and "Prints for Gaza" solidarity initiatives.

Publications by Pinheiro

 * 2015: Macau 5.0 | 澳門 5.0 | Macao 5.0. Macao. ISBN 978-99965-909-7-9.
 * 2019: Myanmar: o retrato de um povo. Rui Cunha Foundation, Macao. ISBN 978-99965-370-2-8.
 * 2021: Desvelo • 關愛 • Zeal. Ipsis Verbis, Macao. ISBN 978-99965-341-4-0
 * 2021: Tonle Sap. Artisan Raw, Brazil. ISBN 978-65-994509-0-7
 * 2022: O que foi, não volta a ser.... Ipsis Verbis, Macao. ISBN 978-99965-341-6-4.
 * 2023: Um vislumbre de luz • 一瞥光亮 • A glimpse of light. Ipsis Verbis, Macao.

Publications with others

 * 2012: The Harmony of Disability, edição coletiva - Associação de Fotógrafos de Imprensa Desportiva, Macau ISBN 978-99965-894-1-6
 * 2013: Antologia Luso-Brasileira de Fotografia Contemporânea – Volume IV – 'Essência e Memória', edição coletiva, Chiado Editora, Portugal ISBN 978-989-51-0583-0
 * 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 ISBN 978-989-33-1036-6
 * 2020: The Other Hundred - Healers, edição coletiva - Global Institute For Tomorrow, Hong Kong ISBN 978-967-10169-7-8
 * 2021: #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, edição coletiva, International Center of Photography and G Editions (Glitterati Editions), EUA ISBN 978-1-943876-22-8
 * 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 ISBN 978-989-671-656-1
 * 2022: The Year Time Stopped: The Global Pandemic In Photos, edição coletiva, HarperCollins, EUA ISBN 978-006-315-951-8

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, 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