Sebastião Pernes

Seaman - Photographer

Black and white photography has been part of my life since my youth. That’s when, squatting the family’s bathroom, I learned the art of developing and printing.

Since then, the camera has become a lifetime companion, always at hand when the light calls. More than a hobby, photography is for me the chosen medium to register impressions and feelings, a sort of “visual log-book”. It took me some years, “a journey through the desert”, to adapt to digital and master again black and white photography.

After 4 decades living and working near Sagres in southwestern Portugal, I now live in the middle of the Ocean, on Faial island, Azores.

Over 50 years of close and intense relationship with the sea moulded my life and made it the main subject in my photography.

Past exhibitions
  • «Mar Oceano» - EMARP, Portimão - 2017
  • «Mar Oceano» - Vila do Bispo - 2016
  • «Mar Oceano» - Antigos Paços do Concelho, Lagos - 2015
  • Collective - Real Compromisso Marítimo, Ferragudo - 2015
  • «Mar Oceano» - Museu da Terra e do Mar, Carrapateira - 2015
  • «Mar Oceano» - Espaço + , Aljezur - 2015
  • «Mar Oceano» - Museu de Portimão, 2014
  • «Lagos: marítimos e marinhas» - Centro Cultural de Lagos, 2007
  • «Orla costeira de Vila do Bispo» - Vila do Bispo, Faro, Aljezur, Portimão, 2001|2004
  • «Flora algarvia» - São Brás de Alportel, Silves, Lagos, Sagres, 1995|1997