Valéria Cunha
Bilgi
Portuguese Photographer and curator. She develops her photographic work through a continuous search for meaning within the urban environment and the quiet poetry of places once considered ordinary. Her gaze moves between unfamiliar cityscapes and subtle everyday moments, revealing rhythms, textures and gestures that often go unnoticed. For her, photography is a form of engagement with life itself, a space where narratives intersect and emotion takes visual form. Working across street, documentary and travel photography, she explores both the vibrancy of colour and the emotional depth of black and white.
Valéria Cunha is a photographer and curator, with a career that brings together artistic practice and the production of group exhibitions in Lisbon. Her work has a particular interest in street, documentary and travel photography, drawing on the observation of urban space and everyday life to reveal narratives, gestures and atmospheres that often remain unseen. She is the founder of Visions of Art, a platform dedicated to contemporary imagery, and curator of four digital galleries on Instagram, collaborating with national and international communities. She conceived and produced two group exhibitions in Lisbon, in partnership with hotel groups: A Global Vision of Street Photography, bringing together 30 photographers from 14 nationalities, and City in Shadows, bringing together 19 photographers based in Portugal, focused on Lisbon and Porto. She is a writer and editor of Fujixpassion magazine, has taken part in numerous group exhibitions both in Portugal and abroad with her own photographic work, and has been invited to judge international photography competitions.