The first music festival that Rita Carmo photographed was the Avante, when he began working as a photojournalist for 23 years. Since then, he has photographed almost all the festivals, from north to south. Almost. “I’ve never been in Vilar de Moors. One year, it was to go but she was pregnant and could not make long trips,” recalls the photographer who usually works for the Blitz magazine.
Twenty years ago there was at the Promenade de Alcântara, shooting the first edition of the Super Bock Super Rock. And not failed any issue. So it was natural that he received the invitation of Louis Montez to curate an exhibition on the 20th anniversary of the festival. The exhibition was inaugurated yesterday at the Pavilion of Portugal in Lisbon, has 172 photographs. Most of the images are of Rita Carmo, but there are many photographs of other photographers who accompanied the many concerts. Scorpions by the hand of Cameraman Metallic, in 2002, David Bowie by Carlos Didelet (1996). Of M.i.a. Nuno Fontinha (2012) to the Cure Rita (1996). “I wanted to choose the most important or most emblematic concerts, but also have the public and the energy of the various issues and the various spaces where was made. Of course, the aesthetic criterion was also important,” said the Commissioner.
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