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Pedro Pina nasceu em Lisboa em 1986. A fotografia esteve sempre presente na sua vida, mais ou menos directamente, mas só bastante tarde passou a ter um papel importante. Aos 19 anos ingressa na Escola Superior de Comunicação Social onde se licencia em Jornalismo. No último ano começa a interessar-se mais por fotojornalismo e a paixão mantém-se até agora. Aliás, cresceu. Já não é só o fotojornalismo, mas todo e qualquer jornalismo visual. E é nesse sentido que vai evoluindo.
Estagiou na agência LUSA, colaborou com o jornal O País e actualmente é freelancer. Publicou na maioria dos principais jornais portugueses e algumas publicações estrangeiras.
Pedro Pina was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1986. Photography has always been part of his life, but it wasn't before 2007 it started to play an important role. At the age of 19 he joins Escola Superior de Comunicação Social where he graduates in Journalism. In his final year as a college student he starts to live photojournalism in a somewhat different way, and that passion remains lit until now. In fact, it grew. It's not only photojournalism by now, but all kinds of visual journalism. And that's how it keeps evolving.
He did an internship at portuguese news agency LUSA, collaborated with newspaper O País, and is currently working as a freelance photojournalist. His pictures have been published in the majority of the main portuguese newspapers and some international publications.
In Fort Kochi, Kerala, the chinese fishing nets (Cheena Vala) are a major attraction for tourists. Emerging on the shore of the Arabic Sea, this wooden spider like structures have been there for several centuries. It is said that it was Zhen He, a chinese explorer, who introduced them in Fort Kochi, but no one really knows for sure.
Their importance to the local fishing sector is not what it used to be. The majority of the fishermen's income is from tourists who pay to visit the fishing nets, and the fish available close to the shore has been declining in the past few years.
The polution, use of large fishing boats and the 2004 tsunami are some of the reasons.
James, Syad, Oshiy, Baiju e Jabar work one of the nets. They do it because unemployment in Kochi area is rapidly growing, and there aren't many job opportunities. They do it because they have to.
It is known in Hindu cosmology as the center of the Earth. To many, it is the holiest city by the holiest of rivers, the Ganges. It is thought to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and probably the oldest in India.
Every year, millions of hindus travell to Varanasi to bathe on the banks of the Ganges and pray to Mother Ganga. It is their beliefe that by doing so, they clean themselves from all the sins and purify their souls. The river's sacred waters represent the goddess Ganga, who was raised in the heavens, under the tutelage of Brahma, God of Creation.
The ghats, majestic series of steps that disappear into the river, are the link between the terrestrial and the divine. Every day, from dusk to dawn, one can feel the energy hovering anywhere in the city. It is like a portal to heaven.
The muslim community in Portugal is getting larger every day. In Lisbon, the nation's capital, there is one main mosque that is located a little too far from the muslim commerce center, near downtown. A few years ago, one man decided to create a praying site that made it easy for everyone to go there on their short breaks from work. A new mosque was then born, in Beco de S. Marçal, Mouraria.
At first, only twenty or thirty people attended to that improvised mosque. Now, every Friday, there are hundreds of muslims, from many countries. Sometimes, they are just too many.
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