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With training in marketing and advertising, Pedro Vieira (Porto, Portugal) is an amateur photographer and since early on has four great passions; music, cinema, photography and… airplanes.

When he bought his first camera with advanced features and the possibility of changing lenses, he instantly started something that fascinated him, joining two of those passions.

For about 12 years he dedicated himself almost exclusively to "plane spotting" (planespotting, is a hobby consisting of observing and tracking aircraft, which is usuallyaccomplished by photography or videography).

In the middle of 2015 and after so many years of photographing airplanes, he felt that photographically he had stagnated and every week, the enormous passion for photography was dropping, in a frightening way. At that point, Pedro makes a decision that he didn't think he had to make; stop shooting and try to figure out a new direction to keep that passion alive.

March 2016. One night while having dinner, Pedro sees on television a news that would change the way he shoots. The news it was about a portuguese photographer who had just won the "Silver Camera Award", in the annual competition for Best European Photographer, promoted by the FEP (European Federation of Photographers), in Reportage Photography category. One picture in particular, in black and white, where a lonely man walked in the rain at night, remained in Pedro Vieira's retina.

With only a few experiences in the world of black and white photography, fascinated by that image, Pedro began the study of black and white photography. In mid 2018 after many experiments, and completely addicted, the big change took place. From now on Pedro decide shooting exclusively in black and white, decision that remains to this day. Pedro's choices to photograph are several, like nature, animals, arquitecture and city scape, but his preferred lies on street photography/people.