I am João Pedro Marnoto, born in 1975 in Porto, Portugal. After completing my photography studies in the UK, I have dedicated more than 25 years to documentary storytelling, collaborating with editors and institutions such as the New York Times, Geo magazine, RTP (Portuguese TV), UNESCO and Douro Museum. Extending the tools of trade from still into moving image, my projects reflect on identity and the human condition from a sociological, environmental and personal perspectives, blending documentary rigor with a flexible, reflective approach to storytelling.
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Visual documentation of the restoration work on the organ of the Cathedral of Évora between 2021 and 2022 for the Japanese Association Kamakura-Portugal. The historical connection to Japan is due to the Tensho Mission, the first Japanese embassy sent to Europe in the 16th century,
bound for Rome, to present itself to the Pope, who while
passing through Évora and its cathedral, took a first contact and enthusiasm with the Renaissance organ of the sixteenth century that lasts until this day.
Presented at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, in the Portuguese pavilion.
Visual work intended to raise awareness on the theme of “The Wolf and the Man” included at the UNESCO “Green Citizens: Pioneers of Change” exhibition at the Biodiversity Gallery at Porto Botanical Gardens.
Report of Women’s Traditional Fire Training Exchange, a hands-on training experience on the use of fire as a tool to manage forest fuels and wildfire risk in the landscape, while enhacing the growing role of women in fire organizations.
Documentary on a journey among nomad and marginal people and their subcultures, living a life away from the society they have rejected. Supported by Centre National dú Cinema (France).
A documentary project of Photography and Video conducted in partnership with AEPGA (Association for the Study and Protection of Asininio Livestock) in Northeast Portugal, “Faith in Donkeys” is a work commissioned by Alfândega da Fé Municipality, that seeks to enhance the complicity of the man-animal relation, leaning on the present reality, and its cultural and social legacy.
A popular expression from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes in Portugal Northeast region, “Nine Months of Winter and Three of Hell,” is a visual metaphor on contemporaneity taken from a premise and perspective of the rural space. A culture in a merciless confrontation with new social and economic realities, it´s a reflection on the human condition based on three vertices: the relation with Land, Faith and Progress. Film, photo exhbition and book edition for Douro Museum.
A book commission from Alijó Municipality, to document and design a book on the social, historical and cultural heritage of a county right in the heart of the Douro region.
Visual work intended to raise awareness on the theme of “The Wolf and the Man” included at the UNESCO “Green Citizens: Pioneers of Change” exhibition at the Biodiversity Gallery at Porto Botanical Gardens.
Documentary on a journey among nomad and marginal people and their subcultures, living a life away from the society they have rejected. Supported by Centre National dú Cinema (France).
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