Ph.12 Rita Barros

Imprensa Nacional, 2023. First edition. Softcover, 134 pp., color illustrated 170 x 240 mm. Photographs by Rita Barros. Text by Susana Lourenço Marques (English / Portuguese).

Originally from Lisbon, Portugal, Rita Barros is a freelance photographer who has lived in New York City since 1980. She has a MA in Art in Media and Studio Art from New York University and the International Center of Photography. She is the author of the book “Fifteen Years: Chelsea Hotel” 1999. Her work has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions: at PS 1, Briggs & Robinson Gallery, Exit Art, (all in NYC); Center for Photography at Woodstock, (NY), Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Museum (Havana, Cuba);  Encontros De Coimbra and Museum de Água (both in Lisbon, Portugal), São Paulo Contemporary Art Museum (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Photo España 07 at the Museo de Arte Contemporanea (Madrid, Spain), Flash Art Fair (Milan, Italy), at Paris Photo 2009 and at Fundação Gulbenkian, (Paris). Her portraits and cityscapes have been published in many European and American magazines, including New York Times, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Nouvel Observateur, Elle, Vogue, Zoom, Expresso, GEO, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, Expresso, Marie Claire, Le Monde.