Luís Espinheira

Luís Espinheira is a lecturer and visual artist with a practice centred on photography. He has a degree in Fine Arts — Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) and a PhD in Media Art from the Lusófona University of Porto (ULP). His career in teaching fashion began in the years between 1988 and 2008, when he taught at the Porto Fashion School and the Gudi Fashion School. He is currently a lecturer at FBAUP, ULP and ESAD, where he is responsible for the Photography and Fashion Production course.
For Luís Espinheira, photography is divided between artistic expression, where the problems of phenomenology and the origin of the image have occupied part of his research, and freelance commercial work, where he develops creative images in close collaboration with artists, designers, brands and institutions.
In 2021 he was awarded the 3rd prize in the Prémio de Fotografia de Sintra; in 2022 he was one of the artists in the first residency programme of the Cerveira Biennial, where he developed the film Lovelhe.