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Duarte Amaral Netto (Lisboa, 1976) studied photography at Ar.co from 1996 until 2000, where he won the Kodak scholarship to complete his studies, which were later continued with the participation in the first Photography Course of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Upon the successful application for the IED grant for the European Master in 2016, Duarte concluded the European Master of Fine Art Photography at IED Madrid.
His first solo exhibition in 2002 with the art gallery Módulo – Centro Difusor de Arte toured the Netherlands, with solo exhibitions in Nouvelles Images in Den Haag and MK Galerie in Rotterdam in 2003. In that same year, Duarte was awarded the Grand Prix du 48ème Salon de Montrouge, in Paris.
Having represented Portugal in “100 photos pour l’Europe” in Paris, Duarte was also selected for several festivals and events such as the “European Night” in Arles in 2006 and Plat(t)form in Winterthur (2014).
In 2012, Duarte was nominated for the 8th Edition of the BES PHOTO AWARD, a prestigious photography prize, with exhibitions at the Berardo Museum in Lisbon and Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil.
Duarte is a teacher of Photography since 2003 at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar and a founding member of HÉLICE, an advanced school of photography based in Lisbon. Among other side projects HÉLICE is responsible for PROPELLER, a biannual publication dedicated to promote the space given to photographic expression.
Duarte also taught at IED Madrid on a Post-Graduate study, Ar.co in Lisbon and gave lectures and workshops on several Universities and institutions.