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House of Music

  • Photographer
    Antonio Coelho

HOUSE OF MUSIC Porto is a city of culture across each of its different dimensions. Music finds here a House that stands out as one of the leading concert halls in Europe. The House of Music is striking firstly for its modern architecture, designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, which received international acclaim when it opened in 2005. "This is one of the most important concert halls built in the last 100 years", wrote a critic from the New York Times newspaper.

My name is Antonio Bernardino Martins Coelho, I am from a small village in the north of Portugal, where I live. I am 39 years old, married and father of two girls. I work as an electrical engineer. A taste for painting was evident in me early on, but it was only in 2010 after a trip to Cuba that I became interested in photography, having captured a lot of images. However, having a small digital camera, I started to acquire analog equipment and develop the photography learning activity in a self-taught way, using very old and medium format machines. My favorite camera is the Zeiss Ikon Nettar.