“Passages”
In this work I am exploring these notions of presence and absence by capturing candid moments of anonymous people in public spaces. My aim is to capture states of being that are intangible in this world, which we see as a transient and uncertain place. I attempt to suggest the passage from one state to another, and evoke those feelings of emptiness and impermanence, which are related to the time that we live in.

In these photo-chemical experiments the use of light has a double function: it both records and destroys the information in the picture. Images are discoloured and faded; the bodies seem to lose density and an illusory sense
of infinite space is created, where time appears to be suspended.

Virgílio Ferreira

Virgílio Ferreira was born in 1970 in Porto, Portugal. In 2012 he gained a Master in photography at the University of Brighton. His work has been exhibited in Europe, the Middle East, the United States, South-East Asia. Some of the most significant exhibitions have taken place at Flowers Gallery, (London); Hamburg Trienal of Photography (Germany); Photo LA and Photo Miami (U.S.A.); The Portuguese Centre of Photography; Empty Quarter Gallery (Dubai); Ofoto Gallery (Shanghai); Madridfoto (Spain); Southeast Museum of Photography (U.S.A.); Fotofestiwal Lodz (Poland); Fotofestival Mannheim (Germany). He has been awarded several prizes, among the most recent is the 1000 Words Award for European Photographers. Ferreira’s work
is held in public and private collections.