“I want to make images that feel like a punch in the stomach. That emotionally strikes me. But always respecting highly the subjects of my photographs”

Miguel Ribeiro Fernandes was born in 1980 in Lisbon, Portugal, where he’s currently working on a long-term project about HIV along with a documental commission of a changing landscape in the north of the country.

His clients include publications such as The New York Times, El Pais, Monocle, Expresso, and various corporate clients. He started working in 1999.

In 2009 he founded www.via-visuals.com