NUNO SERRÃO

Photographer and Director

Photographer and Director

NUNO SERRÃO

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Hi, I am a Madeira Island-born Portuguese photographer and director. My blank slate begins with a functional level of emotion, logic, minimalism, and curiosity; I view these to be the building blocks of my life and creative process.
Led by curiosity, I often create or document ambiguous but frameable non-linear narratives about uncomfortable topics that, in the end, pose a new set of questions, keeping alive the mystery surrounding us, our universe and what is fundamental or emergent.
My work is driven by the belief that if answers are to be found, they will come from the realm of non-locality through the sum of all relatable questions. However, even if the perfect answer is like the speed of light, exponentially harder to come close to, and impossible to achieve, nothing will give me more pleasure than to keep trying.

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Represented by Kintzing for licensing.

Futures Photography Member
Adobe Partner
Fresh Eyes 2023 Artist

Analogue projects only, email for digital portfolio.

Recent clients & collaborations (selection): GUP Magazine; Cosmopolitan Germany; Expresso; L’Hémcycle; Adobe; Der Grief; Create! Magazine; Discovery; Too Tired Press; Subjectively Objective; Aesthetica Magazine; Samsung Electronics; Mediocre; Boom Saloon; The Huffington Post; Público.

“(…) They depict deserted landscapes being at times overtaken by imposing brutalist architecture, translating a form of melancholy through its aesthetic simplicity. The cinematic compositions, deprived of human life, show places of passage and transition where time seems to stand still for a relieving moment of quietness before a choreography of movements resumes. (…)”

Claire Ducresson-Boët, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, 2022

“(…) Each photograph he creates holds an intense air of mystery, a fog that is wrapped in the never-ending eerie. (…)”

Christina Nafziger, Create! Magazine, 2021

“(…) His cinematic compositions and unorthodox approach to portraiture demonstrate a sensitivity to the world around him. (…)”

gelstaten, 2021

“Nuno Serrão is a Portuguese photographer, interested in the dialogues between science and contemporary art. Each of his images considers how information is handled, shared, and perceived, framing scenarios as micro-narratives, demonstrating a sensitivity and a curiosity for the planet and its inhabitants. (…)”

Kate Simpson, Aesthetica Magazine, 2019

Exhibitions, talks, and festivals (selection)
Fresh Eyes International 2023, Haute Photographie, Amsterdam (20 Set – 24 Set, 2023)
Touching Transcendence, Santa Chiara Conservatory, San Miniato (6 Set – 9 Set, 2023)
Zrno Festival, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje (Jun – Jul, 2023)
Signs of Impermanence, Jinny Street Gallery, Tokyo (Apr, 2023)
Gallery 46, London (Feb, 2023)
Transitions, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin (Sep – Oct, 2022)
Investigations into Infrastructure, Studio2, Detroit (May, 2022)
FUSO, Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa (Jul, 2021)
Rvkfringe Festival, Gallerí Fold, Reykjavik, (Jul, 2021)
Quantum Shorts Conversations, National University of Singapore (Apr, 2021)
Aesthetica Filmmaker Insights Panel, York (Nov, 2020)
Lenzburg Photo Festival, Lenzburg (Sep, Oct, 2020)
Fotofestival Schiedam, Schiedam (Sep, 2020)
Helsinki Photo Festival, The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki (Jul, Sep, 2020)

Film Festivals (selection)
Choreoscope | Inshadow Showcase (Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2022)
NYPSFF | Official Select (Babylon, Berlin, 2022)
Annual Copenhagen Film Festival | Finalist (Huset-KBH, Copenhagen, 2021)
Amsterdam Independent Film Festival | Official Select (Lab111 Cinema, Amsterdam,  2021)
Boston Short Film Festival | Nominee (Kendall Square Cinema, Boston, 2021)
Future Now Symposium  | Invited Films (Aesthetica, York, 2021)
Quantum Shorts  | Finalist (ArtScience Museum, Singapore, 2021)
Caminhos do Cinema Português | Nominee (Cinema Avenida, Coimbra, 2020)
Aesthetica Short Film Festival  | Nominee (Aesthetica, York, 2020)
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival | Nominee (Wales, 2020)
POOL – Berlin Festival | Official Select. (Dock 11, Berlin, 2020)
FUSO – Lisbon International Video Art Festival | Nominee (MATT, Lisbon, 2020)
ReelHeart International Film Festival | Winner Best Dance Film (Carlton Cinemas, Toronto, 2020)
LA Experimental Film Festival | Winner (Regal Cinemas, Los Angeles, 2020)
Brussels Independent Film Festival | Nominee (Cinema Galeries, Brussels, 2020)
InShadow Festival | Winner (Teatro do Bairro, Lisbon, 2019)

Publications, essays, interviews (selection)

Fresh Eyes 2023 (GUP, coming in 2023); Cosmopolitan Germany (Bauer Group, July, 2023); Cities To Be (Anteverti, coming in 2023); Urban Unveils (Exhibit Around, 2023) Carmencita Best of 2022 (Carmencita Editions, 2023); “All Islands Are Mountains” Translocal nº7 (Academia.edu, 2023); My House is a Parking Lot (Suboart Magazine, 2023); Futures Photography 2022 Artist (Futures Photography, 2022); Book “Anthology” (Too Tired Press, 2022); Book “Investigations in Infrastructure” (Subjectively Objective, 2022); “Exploring Life’s Mysteries: Interview with Nuno Serrão” (Create!magazine, 2021); Issue #27 (Create! Magazine, 2021); Issue 14 (Der Grief, 2021); “Desde el interior” (Culturamas, 2021); “Flow” (Bluebee Magazine, 2021); Book “Um Olhar de Fora Dentro” (Mediocre, 2021); “Free Space” (Marie Claire Italy, 2020); “Short Stories To Tell In The Dark” (Oprah Daily, 2020); “The Great Escape” (Float Magazine, 2020); “Micro-Narratives” (Aesthetica Magazine, 2019); “In Between” (The Photographic Journal, 2019); “Folk Tales” (Cultura Colectiva, 2019); “Under The Storm” (Boom Saloon Magazine nº4, 2019); “Perspectiva e Circunstância” (Translocal nº1, 2019); “Confronting Existentialism” (Plain, 2018); “Finding Beauty in simplicity” (C-Heads Magazine, 2018); “Inland Iceland” (Featured on Booooooom, 2018); “Inland Morocco” (This Isn’t Happiness, 2018); “Inland Madeira” (Mâché, 2018); “Under a Storm” (Mâché, 2018); “Morrocos minimal” (Fugas, 2018); “Perseids” Huffington Post (2015); “Lenticular Cloud, Moon, Mars, Venus” (NASA, 2015).