Born near Porto, Portugal, Aldo Soares grew up in northern France, near Cambrai, where his family settled in 1965. After scientific studies he moved to Paris and joined the civil service. In 1987, after six years of boredom, he left it for a sabbatical year devoted to photography.
A year later, Zoom magazine published a portfolio of his portraits, which launched him into professional photography. For more than thirty years he has worked for the press, publishing and advertising, with an approach that starts from people. A taste for contrasts, the absurd and the surreal runs through his commissions as through his projects, and he sees them as a laboratory for his personal ideas.
His personal projects now stand at the centre of his work: Les lutins, a photographic diary of his family begun in 2015; Le chemin des âmes, a tribute to two women of the Great War; Gelatinium, Polaroid negatives deliberately buried and kept secret for three decades.
He makes his own prints and builds his own frames in his workshop. He lives and works between Paris and the Dordogne.
Aldo Soares, photographer, sole proprietor. SIRET 418 041 000 00013. 13 boulevard Saint-Martin, 75003 Paris, France. Contact: aldo@aldosoares.com.
Aldo Soares.
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