Sarmento – Café Bissau ; Photographs 1964-2017

Julião Sarmento has been taking photographs for more than forty years. From early on, his technical and lyrical control of the medium allowed him to develop a personal style.  His photographs cover a wide variety of interests: people, places, gatherings, travels, animals in or out of  zoos, cars, experiments on light…

Two years in the making, Café Bissau is the ultimate tour de force on Sarmento´s  archive. Raw, spontaneous zeitgeist infused images stand side by side with more careful constructed series in an elegant edit. Medium format, 35mm, colour, black and white, digital and analogue photographs flow harmoniously in Sarmento´s atlas.

Café Bissau is Julião Sarmento’s most ambitious photobook to date, a surprising contribution to the medium.