Rui Pires - Fine Artist
Rui Pires is a photographer from Aveiro, Portugal.
With strong influences from classical photography he still uses the film in medium and large format as principal tool for documentary and pictorical photography.
Rui Pires assumes himself essencialy as a black and white photographer and he works in all the process to produce his works, starting to chose the right film, taking the pictures, developing, scann and process the final results.
Rui Pires allways study the work of the most humanist photographers like Bresson, Doisneau, Salgado and others and prefer allways a humanist aproach to his documentary work.
Rui Pires have many published works in magazines and newspapers and in this moment he works in a project named 'Rural Moments' in order to publish a documentary photography book about the last comunitarian rural villages and rural people in Portugal.
Some articles related the author :
http://www.fotoritim.com/yazi/rui-pires--kirsal-anlar
http://www.bwphotopro.com/Site/Timeless_B&W.html
NOTE : All profit from sell pictures in my gallery are to donate to elderly careless people non-profit organizations.