André Carvalho was born in Lisbon in 1976 and graduated in graphic design in 1999. He is one of the founding partners of the graphic design atelier, GOMA.
He soon realised that photography, an old passion of his, would become prevalent in his professional life and in 2006 he started exercising this skill with regular collaborations on Portuguese surf and snowboard magazines.
Snowboard photography slowly gave way to purely Surf shoots as his sole photographic activity. Collaborating with most of Europe’s specialist magazines, he was resident photographer for SurfPortugal during 3 years, where he was also responsible for their visual language.
In 2014 at the invitation of Portugal’s Tourism board, André was responsible for documenting surfer Garrett McNamara in a campaign to promote continental Portugal and its islands. That same year he became photography editor of Portugal Surf Guide. In 2015 he won the “Ondas de Ouro” Award in the photography of the year category and launched his first book “Navegar e preciso”, a photo-book of his travels to surf destinations. In 2017 he started to collaborate with the Portuguese magazines “UP” and “Volta ao Mundo”. In 2018 he launched his new book “Surfing, the next step” co-written with António Pedro de Sá Leal, and was invited by Madeira’s association of Promotion to create their image bank for the next 3 years. 2019 started in a more challenging way, when he embarked on a 9 day photographic adventure, sailing from North to South, shooting Portugal’s coast with a Samsung smartphone. This work resulted in a collage of 500 photographs depicting 934km of our coast.
With the ever increasing demand for advertising services, he created in 2019 with his partner José Valente, estudio AZ focussing on post production and photo editing.
His work has been published in many different platforms such as Jornal Expresso, Courrier, Visão, SurfPortugal, VERT Mag, Onfire, Surf Europe, Surfer, Público, Volta ao Mundo, UP...Between advertising, editorials, workshops and personal projects, André Carvalho still makes time to be by the sea, to wash his soul. His lense is always pointing towards new challenges.
some words about my work:
https://www.theinertia.com/music-art/salitre-surf-photography-coffee-table-book/