Pedro Mendes Leal

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Pedro Mendes Leal, a photographer and artist from Western Europe, explores the limits of representation, questioning humanity’s relationship with nature, society, and art. His work draws from the sea, sun, and memory.
From: Lisbon, Portugal.
Shows: A vertotype and cyanotypes.

Pedro Mendes Leal (Lisbon, 1966) is a visual artist whose artistic practice lies somewhere between process and representation, exploring the relationships between nature, human beings and memory.

He is passionate about nature, people and social issues, which he addresses through drawing and photography, questioning Man’s relationship with the environment, society and artistic discourse.

He has participated in collective and individual exhibitions, residencies and global projects linked to cyanotype.

He studied audiovisual communication and drawing, scientific and archaeological illustration. Professionally, he worked as an art director on various projects linked to communication and museums.

“In Life and in Art, ‘Less is more’.”

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2 thoughts on “Pedro Mendes Leal”

  1. Hi Jeff,
    Thank you for you interesse in my work…
    Two images together create a narrative, a story, your own story…
    And what we love, should always be close to us.
    Art should be portable.
    Especially nowadays we travel a lot…

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