Mario Barrela
a photographer who seeks stories in everyday life
I'm Mário Barrela, I'm 51 years old, I was born in Lisbon and spent my childhood in a Lisbon neighbourhood called Graça. after schooling I went into the military. When I left military life I entered a frozen food company until today. I'm very connected to sales, that's why I love photographing people so much. I think I have always liked photography, image, and cinema. About 5 years ago I took a trip to London, where I discovered this passion. I felt that this made me happy, after a course and adding my Passion for Lisbon I started to do street photography. Nowadays I do street, portraits, and events, and photographing makes me happy!
Events organized by Ana Luar
Mario Barrela is a finalist (there are 8 chosen ones) in a very interesting photography contest called "The Secret Life of Words". In the next phase, one of the 4 guest poets (Filipa Leal, Catarina Santiago Costa, Gisela Casimiro and Maria Brás Ferrreira) will make a poem or text, and then one of the four composers (Mafalda veiga, Ana Bacalhau, Silly and Rita Braga) compose a song for the 8 photos that will be presented in a multimedia show on October 6th at 21:30 at the Ruy de Carvalho Auditorium in Oeiras. The photo in question was this and with the title: “Shadows that haunt me""
I really like metro and train stations, you never know what you can shoot there.
