António Duarte Mil-Homens

Founder & Publisher & Education Committee

Macau resident  António Duarte Mil-Homens was born in Lisbon on  October 9, 1949.
Essentially self-taught, started with Photography on a regular basis in 1974. Holds qualifications from the Portuguese Association of Photographic Art and attended a number of photographic workshops.

In 1984 he became a publicity photographer, working for various agencies and companies including food producers, cosmetics, textile, automobile, telecommunications, glass and crystal manufacturers, as well as official departments, doing studio photography, industrial, landscape, reportage, aerial and scientific photography.

From June 1987 to January 2005, he also worked as a photographer in the Institute for Advanced Agronomy Studies in Lisbon, capturing photo and video images for teaching support and investigation, with thousands of images published on thesis and communications in Portugal and overseas.

Has held 22 individual photographic exhibitions in Portugal and Macau and participated in 27 collective exhibitions (Portugal, France, Russia, China and Macau).
Honoured at a number of photography competitions, he was also a Jury member in a few ones.

Following the invitation of student associations and other institutions, such as the House of Portugal in Macau, he organized and taught, since 1989, 51 photography courses, along with short photography workshops.
His work has been published in dozens of books.