ROBERTO SOARES-GOMES, Hon.CPE

Country: Brazil

Elected “Photographer Of The Year” by the Popular Photography & Imaging magazine in 2006 (U.S.A.)
President of Fotoclube RioFotográfico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 2016 till now.
One of the creators of the National Photographic Art Salons of Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais), in the Sixties.
Freelancer Photographer for Manchete weekly magazine, in the Seventies.
Former Color Director and Former Advisor of ABAF – Brazilian Photographic Art Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the Eighties,
Co-founder of ART-SETTE and FOTOCONFRARIA, groups of Photographic Art studies and disclosure, in the Nineties.
Curator of Exhibitions in MAC – Contemporary Art Museum of Niterói, Light Cultural Center and FNAC/Barra Galery, in the Nineties.
Owner of IN – IMAGE NATION, an old Photo Stock Bank, 2006-2008.
Coordinator of the Open Calls for the International Photographic Festival Paraty em Foco, the largest in South America, from 2017 till now.