Pauliana Valente Pimentel

While studying for a Degree and MSc in Geology, Pauliana (born in Lisbon, 1975) traveled a lot, staying for at least one month in each country (Tibet, Burma, India, Mali, Egypt, Iran, Japan, East-Timor…) looking around, talking with people, discovering herself. Since her first travel to Tibet at 18 years-old, she started to take photos, mainly portraits, trying to capture that unravelled part of of each person, of each culture.
In 2000, a Workshop with David Alan Harvey in Lisbon, was the click towards a new and more conscious approach to photography. Since then, several workshops, with D.A.Harvey, Amy Arbus, Bob Sacha, Andrea Pistolesi, Alex Majoli and Erich Lessing, guided her through her own photographic path. In 2003 and 2004 she took photojournalism courses at CENJOR (Portuguese Journalists Syndicate).
In 2005, a 3 month advanced course at Gulbenkian Foundation, with A.Bircher, J.Fontcuberta, P.Faigenbaum, P.Wombell, S.Shore, T.Hubbard, T.Demand and U.Eskildsen, brought her to a deeper contact with artistic photography.
During the last five years, several individual and colective exhibitions, as well as several published photoessays at the major portuguese magazines (Grande Reportagem, Público, Visão, Cais, Notícias Magazine, Expresso), marked her career both as a debuting artist and a free-lancer photojournalist.
Her present work deals mainly with the relation of individual persons with their status, either at public performances, back-stage moments or daily domestic life.

COLLECTIONS
Represented in several private colections