This document provides a summary of Strangelfreak's studies and exhibitions. It lists their education in product design and photography in Portugal and Spain between 2000-2008. It then describes over 30 exhibitions from 1999-2008 in Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany featuring queer and post-porn photographic portraits of people important in their life. The photographs push boundaries and challenge social norms and taboos related to gender, sexuality, and the human body.

1. Strangelfreak
Portfolio

2. Studies
2008 #Photoshop avancat aplicat a fotografia, civic center Casa Golferich- Bar-
celona, Espanha
#Digital image treatment, civic center Patti Llimona – Barcelona, Espanha
2007 #Photography , Grisart Escuela de Fotografia – Barcelona, Espanha
2006 - 2000 #Product Design, Intituto Politecnico de Viana do Castelo, Escola
Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão – Viana do Castelo, Portugal
1997 - 2000 #Athens Institute – Guimarães, Portugal
1988 - 1997 #British Institute – Guimarães, Portugal
Exihibitions
2008 #“The Kidds R doing fine...”- La Bata de Boatine - Barcelona, Espanha
# Muestra Marrana – C.S.O. Casa Magdalenes – Barcelona,Espanha
# Entzaubert – Radical Non-Comercial Queer Film Festival – Berlin, Ale-
manha
# Colective Photography Exihibition, Centro Civico Patti Llimona – Barce-
lona, Espanha
2007 #“Photo Existence 2.5”, La Bata de Boatine – Barcelona, Espanha
#“Photo Existence 1.0”, La Bata de Boatine – Barcelona, Espanha
# Area – Dansa, Dance School – Barcelona, Espanha
2006 # Menos3Lab, Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa – Lisboa, Portugal
# Special Amateurs, revista Photo - França
2005 #”I didn’t know she was your dad” Pedras & Pessegos – Porto, Portugal
2004 #“Footlomo”, Embaixada Lomografica Portuguesa, Artes em Partes – Por-
to, Portugal
2003 # Nasoni – Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2001 # G.L.S – Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2000 # Fabrica – Viana do Castelo, Portugal
1999 # Final Works , Escola Secundaria Francisco de Holanda – Guimarães, Por-
tugal
1997 # Colective Drawing Exihibition, Paço dos Duques de Bragança – Gui-
marães, Portugal

3. #I started out studying Product Design in E.S.T.G. in Viana do Castelo,
a small city in Portugal, but as I soon discovered I had more of a criative
than industrial perspective in life, I decided to come and study photography
in Barcelona.
#The eclectic spirit of the city enabled me to come in contact with a
huge number of attitudes that made me reinterpret my own acceptance/inte-
gration skills.
#The interess in portraing people who difere from mainstream culture,
an heterogenic mix of opinions, postures and values always fascinated me.
Reason why I started integrating elements of queer culture; as an existen-
cialist concept defined by Judith Butler; as well as a greater need to dismisti-
fy tabus and prejudices related with genre, sexual freedom, integrating them
in a recent artistic field called Post-Porn.
# Filled with humour and irony, most of the pictures are a combination
of sexuality and raw colours mixed with a total lack of respect for photogra-
phy rules.The pictures correspond to an overview of an intimat, caotic, and;
in my perspective; more natural look at individuals.
#All of the pictures are of people who have an important part in my
life, to whom I thank for oppening the door to their private lifes and allowing
me to recreate a prejudice free perspective on their surreal existence.
“Blowback” (Luis Pedro & Nuno Sendas) - Barcelona 2008
Photos made by Bruce LaBruce, canadien porn movie director, during a zombie-
Luis Pedro de Castro
terrorist-polaroid performance in his recent exihibition in Antigua Casa Haiku

4. “Alice XY” -(Cecilia & Ian)- Barcelona 2008
Moments in a performance by Quimera Rosa, in the squat center Can Vies, part when
Alice in Wonderland masturbates in front of a mirror atached to the face of one of the
the artists.

5. “Lucha de Perras/Bitch Fight” - Barcelona 2008
Generatech, international festival about gender and tecnology, organized by Hangar
art-center. With the participation of several artist colectives from Barcelona like Aloe
Fresa, Quimera Rosa, Tokyo SS.

6. “Mestra Laia &
Diana Porno-Terrorista”
“Private, Ceci,
Ian & Peachy”
“Mestra Laia, Majo, Tokyo SS”

7. “Ian & Majo” - Barcelona 2008
“Tooth Fairy” - (Peachy) Barcelona
2008

8. “Diana Pornoterrorista” - Barcelona 2008
Contemporary artist and poet from catalunia , well know in the underground art circle
by reciting poetry that she takes out of her vagina.

9. “Diana Pornoterrorista” - Barcelona 2008 “Diana Pornoterrorista-poesia para mi coño” - Barcelona 2008
During the performance they projected video samples of women giving birth, sex Moment in the performance where she asked for a volunteer from the audi-
change operations, fisting, goldenshowers, decapitations and;like in this picture; ence , who would fist her while she recited a poem dedicated to her own vagina
double anal dildoes...:) (yes,she had her period)

10. “5 dias 5 afeites”-(Luz)- Barcelona 2007
Purification ritual performed during 5 days in the dance school AREA, integrating ele-
ments of xamanic tradition with the culture of the body consistent with western culture.

12. “Carry”-(Albert)- Barcelona 2007
One of many in the queer bar La Bata de Boatiné
“Gladiator”-(Helena)- Barcelona 2007
Barwo(men) of Bata

13. “Justin Bond & Nate Carr”- Barcelona 2008
“Sammy Jo”- Barcelona 2008
Scissor Sisters’s DJ Actor from Shortbus, from the movie director Jonh Cam-
eron Mitchel, with Nathaniel Carr vocalist in a trans bur-
lesque cabaret project

14. “Coco Rosie”
Vila Nova de Famalicão - 2006

15. “Mutuo ”
(Paulo Seixas & Pedro Silva)
Viana do Castelo 2006

17. “Parcial” -
(Pedro & Jaime Garcia)
Porto - 2000

18. “Self Service Shiva” -
(Self Portrait)
Viana do Castelo - 2000

19. www.fotologue.jp/strangelfreak
www.myspace.com/strangelfreak
Strangelfreak@Gmail.com