Diogo Duarte

Diogo Duarte is a London-based Portuguese Image Maker specializing in self portraiture and psychological portraits. His background in mental health and bereavement support enables him to create outstanding portraiture that goes beyond the boundaries of traditional photography.

In 2014, one of Diogo’s portraits was curated into a Saatchi Art Online collection, and in 2018 he was a finalist at Portugal’s highest-profile Photography Biennial. In the same year, Diogo won a prize in the photography category at the FAPDA Kyoto Award and was one of the winner’s of Life Framer’s OPEN CALL.

His work has been widely exhibited in the UK, Japan, Italy, Canada and Portugal. More recently, his work was sold at auction at Paddle8 as part of the ‘Boys, Boys, Boys!’ show in support of the Elton John AIDS Foundation and at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Canada to support disadvantaged communities to access the arts. Diogo is also a freelance tutor at the London School of Photography.

Photo of Diogo Duarte

I dream of the apocalypse all the time and have done for as long as I can remember. This is something that I’m consciously interested in: the breakdown of society, the breakdown of rules, the breakdown of identity, which could ultimately lead to truly discovering oneself. The other day I dreamed I was alone in a field of wheat and the sky was on fire; I still remember how the flames felt on my skin! It wasn’t a nightmare as I remember I was happy, as if I was looking forward to total freedom because everything had disappeared.