Ju Pereira 

I combine my passion for traveling and photography with my background working on cultural diversity, creating pictures of diverse people and places, many of them reflected on mirrors, glass or water.

 

A camera has been like a window through which I sees and try to influence the world around me.Since my teen years I have been experimenting with different materials and forms of art expression, including: lithography, wood engraving, porcelain painting, leather, ceramics, watercolors, and yes, photography. Brazilian and Dutch, I studied fine arts in my home country and after moving to The Netherlands I studied street, portrait and food photography at the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam (FOAM), Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and Photography School in Den Haag. In the 90s I studied photography with American photographer Bonnie Josephson and more recently, with Dutch photographer Robert Goddyn.

 

I have been doing exhibitions in Europe (France, Greece, Poland, Portugal and The Netherlands) and Brazil. Besides two books on leadership & culture written with my partner, I published five photography books:

 

- Garopaba Distorted

- Magic Sea

- Netherlands Upside Down

- “Oranje” Celebration. The Dutch King’s and Queen’s Day

- São Paulo Mirrors. Hidden beauty of a concrete jungle

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