News from Angola – Fifteen photographs depicting Angolan landscapes, captured using a drone, by Portuguese photographer, Rodrigo Subtil, were exhibited on Tuesday night, at Elinga Teatro in Luanda.
By: Amilton Victor
The solo exhibition, entitled “Viver Angola”, is part of the festivities of the International Theater Circuit (CIT), and will be on display until June 1st, from 5pm to 9pm.
According to Rodrigo Subtil, the Viver Angola exhibition, of which nine portraits were captured using a drone and printed on PVC, express a generous and subtle look between the natural and human dimensions of the provinces represented.
The artist highlighted that his passion for portraying Angola in natural landscapes was born from “the enchantment of the country’s cultural diversity found during his travels and admiration for the geography of the regions he passed through”.
According to the same, the photographs were taken in the provinces of Cunene, Cabinda, Kwanza Sul, Luanda, Malanje, Bié and Namibe, over a period of six years, between March 2018 and March 2024.
Rodrigo Correia Subtil was born in Lisbon, in 1991, and is passionate about travel and visual arts.
Since 2017 in Angola, he has created extensive photographic work on human daily life and the country’s natural and scenic wealth.
In 2021, he organized, in Luanda, the collective photography exhibition “Olhares Cruzados – Europa em Angola”, in an initiative of the Centro Cultural Português Camões.