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Patricia De Melo Moreira
Photographer based in Lisbon.
AFP / Patricia De Melo Moreira

The women photographers series: Patricia de Melo Moreira

Sunday 27 June 2021

Paris - “Women have been using cameras since photography was first invented, officially in 1839. They have gone out in public, travelled to unknown lands, observed the world, covered wars, invented new techniques and displayed genius and avant-garde artistic innovation,” says AFP’s head of photography, Marielle Eudes. “And yet most of their names are still hardly known. Women have stayed in the shadow of history, unseen, erased.” To honour women’s overlooked achievements in photography, AFP is launching a series of interviews with our own women photojournalists around the world. In the first, Lisbon-based Patricia de Melo Moreira, named one of the best agency photographers by The Guardian newspaper in 2020, talks about how she tries to capture the joy as well as the fragility of people’s lives.

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The silence of the inferno

Friday 7 July 2017

"It was strangely calm and silent," writes Lisbon-based photographer Patricia De Melo Moreira. "You could just hear the crackling wood and that very particular sound of uncontrolled flames. I noticed the reflection of the inferno in the water of the nearby pond and snapped away. It was like a typical postcard of pretty scenery -- except that reflected in the still waters was a forest being consumed by a killer fire."

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