exhibition

Fifteen Years:Chelsea Hotel

"Photographer, Rita Barros pays homage to that hotbed of
bohemian culture in Fifteen Years: Chelsea Hotel (Camara Municipal de Lisboa / Cultura). Barros's book includes photos of past and current residents such as Gregory Corso, Dee Dee Ramone and Virgil Thomson. And since Barros herself is a longtime resident, she knows whereof she shoots" in Time Out, New York.

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Room 1008

An homage to the room where 2001:A Space Odyssey
was written

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Um Ano Depois

"...these are images from the beginning of a new era. An era of suspicions that constitute the history of mankind. Rita Barros, like many others, was there to record the decisive moment that would mark consciences and the future: the unacceptable moment of the deliberate crash in the Twin Tower..." by Maria do Carmo Seré (from the fold-out invitation)

Catalogue text by Tereza Siza/Maria do Carmo Serén PDF - link to reviews

	*Presença da Ausência* "The story of the photographer as a traveller is a myth; the most adventurous trip is that of the imagination. Rita Barros thinks about colours and they turn up where they are least expected..." more of catalogue text by Jorge Calado PDF Other catalogue texts - Rene Ricard PDF Link to press - to photos

Presença da Ausência

"The story of the photographer as a traveller is a myth; the most adventurous trip is that of the imagination. Rita Barros thinks about colours and they turn up where they are least expected..." more of catalogue text by Jorge Calado PDF Other catalogue texts - Rene Ricard PDF

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	*Wall* "Thus Wall leads our senses and imagination perfectly. As it was searching for a story. But most of all searching for adventure and experimentation. And it's exact;y in that direction that the photography of Rita Barros seems to be heading nowadays" more of catalogue text by Jose Marmeleira PDF other text - Rene Ricard PDF Link to press - to photos

Wall

"Thus Wall leads our senses and imagination perfectly. As it was searching for a story. But most of all searching for adventure and experimentation. And it's exact;y in that direction that the photography of Rita Barros seems to be heading nowadays" more of catalogue text by Jose Marmeleira PDF other text - Rene Ricard PDF

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3x3

"Weightless and furtively the shutter's release/not the ink of nature draws your portrait/wether mother, or sister. lover, wether friends/ silhouette, bust, entire or part./ old friends or darling strangers/ whomever you are, this has the deapth of a dream..." more of catalogue text by Antonio Calpi PDF

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	The Last Cigarette "Rita Barros's Last Cigarette is to - to put it in black and white - a great series and a masterpiece of photography. I should rather say red and black (instead of black and white), for here the sober colour palette plays a fundamental role. Red is the new white....." more of catalogue text by Jorge Calado PDF - other text by Francesca Serra PDF Link to photos

The Last Cigarette

"Rita Barros's Last Cigarette is to - to put it in black and white - a great series and a masterpiece of photography. I should rather say red and black (instead of black and white), for here the sober colour palette plays a fundamental role. Red is the new white....." more of catalogue text by Jorge Calado PDF - other text by Francesca Serra PDF

Link to photos