Issue 70. Party
Inácio Ludgero
Born in Amadora in 1950, Inácio Ludgero considers himself from Alentejo by adoption, and a citizen of the world by choice.
He attended the Sculpture Degree at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, and he started working at the evening newspaper A Capital on 1 June 1972. From here he moved to O Jornal, where he worked as a photographic reporter since its first issue, in 1 May 1975, the same date he joined the company until that weekly newspaper was closed in November 1992.
He is currently a freelancer, since he left the Visão magazine on 10 March 2008. He collaborates with the Portuguese Society of Authors, his home since forever, and he is the author of all the photographs on the SPA's 90th anniversary commemorative book in 2015.
In June 1994, he published, together with José Jorge Letria, published by Círculo de Leitores, a black and white photographic album with poetic texts, entitled Lisboa, Capital do Coração.
That year he also won the 1st prize of the 8th Environmental Photography Competition of the Barreiro City Council, in the black and white category, as well as the Gazeta Award (1993 National Photo-Reporting Award, of the Clube de Jornalistas) with the cover photo of the first issue of Visão, made in the column of Huambo (Angola), with the title Pietá Negra, which would be named as one of the 50 photos of the 20th century by the Associated Press, in July 1999.
In this harsh experience, he got the support of his friend and comrade, José Plácido Júnior, his reporting partner. The same happened with his comrade Filipe Fialho in a report work that they both conducted in Timor, and which resulted in an exhibition that toured Portugal and the world for over a year, under the theme Os Mártires do Silêncio. About Timor, he also published a photo album in February 2000, entitled “12 Dias com os Mártires do Silêncio”. On the 20th anniversary of the Timor referendum, he had an exhibition of those 1999 photos at the Café del Art in Lisbon, about the referendum that culminated in the independence of Timor.
In 2003, he participated in the 20th anniversary book of the Constitutional Court.
In 2015 his work was exhibited at the SPA the exhibition, which is itinerant nowadays. On 25 April, it was shown at Cadaval.
He has had for several years, and also itinerary, an exhibition sponsored by the SPA called Rostos com Memória, which was in the last biennial of Vila Nova de Cerveira.
In 2017 he published the book Soares Sempre Fixe!, together with a travelling exhibition.
He has held an exhibition for two years, and it has been travelling around the country: Os Desassossegos da Memória. It is based on the author’s invitation to eight Portuguese painters to produce a painting from the observation of his 33 images.
He is preparing one more photography book, O Livro dos Livros, also with an exhibition.
