20th Ovar Photography Journeys | AMBID2024/25
Photographic Competition “Ambiente Imagens Dispersas 2024”

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION: Constitution of the Jury
Promoter: Amigos do Cáster
Deadline: Sunday, November 10, 2024
More Information: Rules – Prize List – Event Matrix

Eduardo Ferreira

Biography – Eduardo Ferreira is a biologist, graduated from the University of Aveiro. Her main research focuses are ecology and conservation of biodiversity and wildlife. Throughout his career, the target groups of his research are ungulates, carnivores, as well as reptiles and amphibians. In recent years, it has also been active in environmental education and awareness.
From an early age, he has a great interest in photography, which consolidated when his professional career led him to work more closely with wildlife. As an amateur photographer, his main interest is wildlife photography, which he sees as an opportunity to bring the general public closer to the animals that few have the opportunity to observe in person.

Hugo Amador

Biografia – Hugo Amador born and lives in Oporto. He trained in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Oporto, but as a result of his professional activity as a salesman, he ended up finding his canvas in Photography and his inspiration in nature. Through his images, he seeks to inspire others and raise awareness about the importance of preserving our natural heritage. He participated in individual and group exhibitions and was awarded in several national competitions.

João Petronilho

Biografia – João Petronilho was born in Mira in 1964, where he has lived 5/6 of his life. From a young age, his fascination with nature impelled him to follow its trails, seeking in this way, through vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste and sensory perception, to contact and try to discover/get to know the world that surrounds him. Forest guard and amateur nature photographer, passionate about the landscapes and creatures of his homeland, he dedicated part of his professional life to the observation and study of birds and other species. In his free time he continued this passion, augmented by nature photography, and writing short texts that allowed him to exult in the adventure of life on our planet, as well as the emotions inherent to its existence. Throughout his career, he participated, guided and coordinated various fieldworks involving censuses, atlases, food ecology and scientific bird ringing. He is the author and co-author of several articles of a scientific or promotional nature in the field of ornithology, and other groups of vertebrates, which were published in several specialized magazines, both national and foreign. He is also the author/co-author of three books: “A Fauna do Concelho de Mira” (2001); “The Enchanted Mountain” (2013); “Waterbirds from the Natura 2000 Site”, “Mira, Gândara and Gafanhas Dunes – Years 2002/2006″ (2014). In terms of photography, his images have illustrated information panels, museums and various magazines, guides and books. He was awarded and distinguished in several nature photography competitions, whether in Portugal or abroad. He also exhibited his photographs, both in individual and group exhibitions.

Joaquim Pedro Ferreira

Biography – Joaquim Pedro Ferreira Doctorate in conservation biology and post-doctorate in science promotion and dissemination. He has professional training in journalism in the multimedia area. He is the author of several audiovisual projects and documentaries and television series: “Laboratórios de Natureza”, “Lousada. Reencounter with Nature”, ”Life Lines: Architecture for Wildlife”, “Long Distance Migrators. Between the Tagus and the Arctic” and “Biodiversity in the hypermarket”. He is co-author of more than a dozen books, and has won several awards in the area of scientific knowledge dissemination and nature conservation.

Paulo Paiva Fonseca

Biography – He was born in Ovar in 1977. He graduated in architecture in 2005 from the Porto School of Art, taking the 4th year of the course at the Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus, Germany where he had the opportunity to choose subjects in the urban planning course. Between 2006 and 2015 in Valladolid, Spain collaborates as an architect and urban planner with local workshops, and as an architectural photographer in the area of ​​cultural, heritage and archaeological landscape with the University of Valladolid. Since 2016 he is a liberal professional with his own studio in Ovar, providing illustration, architecture and urban design services – www.paivafonseca.com. He is an architecture photographer and owner of the Archive of Architecture website – www.arqarq.com

Rubim Almeida

Biography – PhD in Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto where he is a professor in the Department of Biology, he is also a researcher at CIBIO-UP (Centre for Research in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources), where he coordinates the group “Biodiversity and Conservation Ecology” . He is a specialist in Phylogeny and Systematics of Angiosperms and is Curator of the Herbarium of the University of Porto, at the Museum of Natural History and Science (UP).

Advisor and author of the “Flora Iberica” Project, of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (C.S.I.C.), Madrid (Spain -since 1993) and of the Atlas Flora Europaeae project (Helsinki), he is (co-)author of more than four dozen scientific works, including book chapters and books, as well as articles in international and national journals, as well as several dissemination works, in the fields of Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution of Plants. Among other topics, his research focuses on the evolution and phylogeny, especially of Monocotyledons (especially the genera Scilla, Hyacinthoides and Brimeura), the plant anatomy of functional characters and forensic application, as well as the formation of biogeographic corridors and the alterations of the landscape.
His interests also include Urbanism and Vegetation and plant macrophotography.

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