Biography

He is one of the most renowned Portuguese photojournalists. Cunha started his professional career in 1970, initially related to publicity. He was first a collaborator of the newspaper Notícias da Amadora, in 1971, moving to the more prestiged weekley O Século and his magazine O Século Ilustrado, in 1972. He was one of the main photographers of the revolution of 25 April 1974, capting some of the most memorable images of the historical event. He also documented the Decolonization, capting the return of many Portuguese who came back from the African colonies, in 1975. He worked for three Portuguese news agencies, the ANOP, since 1977, the Notícias de Portugal (News of Portugal), since 1982, and LUSA, created as the merger of the two previous, in 1987.

He worked as photography editor of the daily Público, from 1990 to 1997, and of the Edipresse Group, since 1997. He was, afterwards, editor of the daily Jornal de Notícias, of Porto, from 2003 to 2012, and photography director of the Global Imagens. After his official retirement, he became a freelancer in 2012. He documented during his career historical events like the fall of the communist regimen in Romania, in 1989, and the Iraq War, in 2003.
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He always cultivated the black and white photography, instead of color photography, by personal option.

His work participated in a photography exhibition with work of Eduardo Gageiro, José Antunes and Alfredo Cunha to celebrate the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution / 25 April 1974 military coup, organized by Emanuel AG as one of the organizers of the Curtas Vila do Conde 2nd International Film Festival, conjointly the selection of a film retrospective from several filmmakers to tell the story of the cinema of that period (Fernando Lopes and Manuel Costa e Silva were two of them).