Gustavo Bettini

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GUSTAVO BETTINI WAS BORN IN SÃO PAULO, BUT STARTED HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC CAREER IN PERNAMBUCO, WHERE HE HAS LIVED SINCE 2000. POSTGRADUATE IN CULTURAL JOURNALISM FROM THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO (UNICAP), BETTINI HAS HIS TRAINING BASIS IN PHOTOJOURNALISM. HE WORKED AT THE NEWSPAPER FOLHA DE PERNAMBUCO FROM 2003 TO 2008, WHEN HE DECIDED TO DEVELOP INTO AUTHOR PROJECTS AND JOINED A COMPANY THAT GAVE ORIGIN TO ADI – ATELIER DE IMPRESSION, A COMPANY SPECIALIZED IN PHOTOGRAPHS WITH THE FINEART STANDARD. IN HER CURRICULUM, IN ADDITION TO COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS, ARE: INFRAMARGEM: MARGINS OF AN INFRAREDEMELHO WORLD (2008), INDIVIDUAL, AND INTERMEIOS (2014), IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LIA LUBAMBO. BOTH EXHIBITED AT ARTE PLURAL GALERIA, IN RECIFE-PE. BETTINI ALSO RECEIVED AN HONORABLE MENTION IN THE 11TH ITAÚ BBA PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION, PARTICIPATING IN THE EXHIBITION AT THE CASA BRASILEIRA MUSEUM, IN SÃO PAULO, IN 2006, HE WAS SELECTED TO EXHIBIT AT THE SPAIN INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNIAL AQUEDUCTE 2006, ONE OF THE MAIN EVENTS OF THE WORLDWIDE PHOTOGRAPHY , AND WON THE PORTFOLIO SELECTION OF THE SECOND EDITION OF PARATY EM FOCO, IN 2006, AND PARTICIPATED IN THE 2009 EDITION, AMONG THE COUNTRY'S LEADING PHOTOGRAPHY PROFESSIONALS. LAUNCHED IN DECEMBER 2015 THE BOOK ENTREMEIOS, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LIA LUBAMBO, WITH NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SERTÃO PERNAMBUCANO, AN ESSAY ALSO FINALIST FOR THE CONRADO WESSEL PRIZE IN 2016.