Mozambique children, 1980-2000. "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.

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