PAULO ABREU

Paulo Abreu is a Brazilian photographer and visual artist that creates lonely and contemplative pieces that brim with mood and melancholy. A self-taught practioner, he choses to focus upon issues that arise out of his own lived experience, and does so outside the visual idioms of set genres of photography.

While Paulo has not engaged with formal artistic training, it is perhaps this very aspect of his practice that liberates him.

Like statues, his subjects stand in space, contemplating their fragility. They are solitary, solmen figures who share their pain and recognise it as part of human experience.