Tó Mane is passionate about photography and the sea from a young age. An obsession that led to a successful career as a photographer of events connected to the surf, to the extent that his images were published in one of the most prestigious magazines of its kind worldwide, the "Surfing". Another of his passions is traveling and meeting different realities that he carries to these pictures in a book that he compiled and can be seen in an exhibition in Leça, until August 12th.
When you decide to take pictures of the sea, the surfers in a professional manner?
Tó Mane: I started surfing in 1988 and took photographs under the influence of my grandfather who had various types of cameras, taking pictures of the ocean has become something more serious when I published my first image of surfing in 1998 and continued thereafter.
You follow also the surf championships?
TM: Yes, I am invited to cover the championships, but it is also an area of my work.
Do you take pictures under water?
TM: Yes, there are photographs that I do in the water, I wait an averaged of 3 hours for the right image, even in winter.
One of your images is part of contest of an international professional competition. TM: Yes, it is a global competition, is one of the biggest worldwide. The award can reach $ 50,000. It is an event open to all kinds of photography. I am in 3 rd place so for in individuals, hope people can vote. I am also showing my work in an exhibition. They are images of a book published this year. I have already presented other shows in 2010; the photos were in black and white, a total of six pictures only on the waves.
It is a book about surfing?
TM: No, it's a book called "travel" is about my travels and have selected several sites I visited and like it, whether ten minutes from home, or 5000 miles away. The wanderings, voyages that I did at a personal level. There are 19 photos that will also be on display.
Apart from the sea, there are other themes that you like to do?
TM: I like landscapes with long exposures, but also pictures of sports, which involve a lot of action. Surf is my life, my photography reflects this, is something I enjoy, with whom I live and practice. Currently I am dedicated to commercial photography, do a little of everything, because it is difficult to live alone of surf.
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