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✨ João de Castro | Honorable Mention | Monochrome Photography Awards 2024 ✨
Our resident provocateur, João de Castro, has kicked off 2025 with another accolade to add to his impressive portfolio:
Honorable Mention | Monochrome Photography Awards 2024
Category: NUDE (Professional)
Photograph: “Why”
This isn’t the first time João’s evocative piece, “Why”, has turned heads. It was previously recognised with:
Nominee | 18th Black and White Spider Awards 2023
Category: Nude (Professional)
In João’s work, we’re drawn into deeply intimate moments where women stand raw and alone, unburdened by the weight of judgement. Through the stark elegance of high-contrast black-and-white photography, he captures an arresting duality-vulnerability intertwined with undeniable strength.
“Sometimes I have fully formed ideas in the night and I write them down. Or I have something that sits in the back of my mind for a while. But the magic happens in the studio with the model. I stretch to wherever they want to go. A lot of models I work with tell me how they’ve been able to work through things affecting their life by us working together.” ~ Joåo de Castro
