Urban Angels / Anjos Urbanos

Artist

José Cabral (b.1952)

Date

from May 21st 2009 to September 23rd 2009

Description

Mozambique, 1979-2002. "My children and other people's children".  

Born in 1952 in Lourenço Marques/ Maputo, José Cabral is one of Maputo’s great photographers; he is the first to make the transition from the documental photojournalism tradition, initiated by Ricardo Rangel and Kok Nam, to a more personal photography tackled as a passionate way of life.

'The Urban Angels are children: his own three and then four and other people’s children, street children. The differences of colour and of social condition aren’t hidden, quite the opposite, they make the record of the unbearable inequalities more pungent and penetrating. José Cabral’s images are simple and beautiful, tender and terrible, but they always lack the weightings of chance, artifice and policy that so often are the easy formula of the art of photography. They are simultaneously direct and charged with emotion, without distancing themselves from life in search of metaphors.' forward by Alexandre Pomar, Urban Angels book.

Cabral's work

Browse Urban Angels e-book   

Urban Angels available editions:
Exhibition Book
Special Collector’s Edition
Postcard

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P4's director is pleased to invite you to José Cabral and the Mozambique Photography meeting/debate, taking place at P4Photography Gallery |  29 May 2009  9.30 pm.

Joining the debate will be:

José Cabral (photographer)
Alexandre Pomar (art critic)
Luís Trindade (P4Photography)

Alexandre Pomar (left) and José Cabral at the meeting/debate. Photograph by P4