Augusto Cabrita (1923-1993) was a Portuguese photographer, director of photography and filmmaker. His grandson, Augusto Antonió Cabrita contacted me with his work, and I’m glad he did. Enjoy!
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About him:
Augusto Cabrita was a self-taught photographer. He worked as a photojournalist for the weekly O Século and their magazine O Século Ilustrado, from Lisbon. He also did the covers of albums by musicians like Amália Rodrigues, Carlos Paredes, Luís Goes and Simone de Oliveira. He directed many short film documentaries and was the cinematographer of Belarmino (1964), by Fernando Lopes, one of the first and most important films of the Portuguese Cinema Novo (New Cinema).

He was the photographer of several books about Portuguese patrimony, on subjects like cuisine, Portuguese religious architecture, castles and natural parks and reservations.

As a photographer, he documented in a poetic way – particularly in black and white – portuguese industrialisation, rural life and the people, but also some of Portugal’s best-known cultural figures.

As a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer for Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), he travelled to various countries around the world, documenting events, people and places in an artistic and expressive way. Author of a diverse, vast and highly influential body of work, he was one of Portugal´s greatest masters of visual imagery in the 20th century.
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For more:
https://www.augustocabrita.pt/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Cabrita






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