Joao’s interest in photography blossomed after buying a manual Zenit camera for a handful of rubles in a Moscow market a few years back.

Upon returning to London Joao found Zoom In and offered to volunteer as an attempt to meet other likeminded people and aspiring photographers. Since March 2005 Joao has helped on anything conceivable, from mopping the darkroom floor to assisting tutors on most of the courses or running Large Format photography workshops for other volunteers. Since the end of 2006 Joao has been responsible for one of Zoom In’s volunteer groups and he hopes to have contributed to the development of Zoom In as a volunteering organisation.

Joao values the many opportunities given for developing his own skills and has benefited from the access to the well equipped darkroom, to some of Zoom In’s photography equipment and from the contact with tutors and other professional photographers. Joao is currently developing further his photography by attending a photography BTEC course.

Joao likes to turn junk into cameras and bringing old mechanical film cameras back to life. You can see some of the results in his book Images from London Commuting.

Joao is originally from Lisbon in Portugal and holds a degree in mechanical engineering and a MSc in industrial management. Professionally he works as a project engineer in the rail vehicle manufacturing industry in the UK and in Europe.

To see some of Joao’s work please visit his Flickr page.

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