Manuel Roberto

Born in Mozambique in 1965. He began his career in 1985, as a photographer for the school publishing house, INDE, and permanent collaborator in the Mozambican weekly Domingo. In Portugal, he worked at Jornal de Notícias and O Primeiro de Janeiro, before joining the Público newspaper in 1994, where he remains as a photojournalist and serves as editor of the photograph. He has participated in several collective and individual exhibitions. Gazeta Multimédia Award (2013) with the work “Sons of the Wind”; Press Gazette Award (2014) with the work “The War that Portugal wanted to forget”. For a year he designed with journalist Mariana Correia Pinto, a mosaic of their city, in interviews and portraits, with two hundred citizens – his Porto Olhos no Olhos.