Professional Bio
The Brazilian photographer Cesar Bastos de Mattos Vieira is architect, graduated by the UFRGS in 1986, with Master degree in Communication for the same institution, concluded in 2002. Currently he attends a PhD course in Architecture with emphasis in Photography. He started as photographer in 1982 when he bought its first photographic camera, a Nikon FG. In the same year already he was monitorial of them you discipline of Mockup and Photography in the level 1 and 2 of the graduation course of Architecture of the UFRGS. During the graduation course he was responsible for the B&W Photographic Laboratory of the College of the Architecture of the UFRGS and, per one year, he worked with the Fundação próMemória in the photographic survey of urban landscapes of the Italian and German settling. The photography is a constant element in your professional activity.

As Architect and Graphical Designer, activity that develops since 1984, uses the photography as distinguishing of quality in the graphical works that develops. As professor and researcher of the UFRGS, College of Architecture, in the department of graphical expression it is responsible for them you discipline of Mockups, Photography Applied to the Architecture and person who orientates of Final Work of Graduation being, also, the photography research object as tool of register and expression and in the development of new graphical and visual languages. Also it is integrant of the team of the Photography Center of UFRGS developing activities of research and extension.

Collective expositions:
Exposition “Showing the Face - Photographic Exposition” - FAU - UFRGS. December of 1997.
Exposition “Showing to the Face 2 - Photographic Exposition” - FAU - UFRGS. January of 1999.
Exposition of Photography “For where the College Steps on” - FAU - UFRGS. May of 2008. Exposition “Five Looks” - FAU - UFRGS. December of 2007.

Awardings:
Honor Mention in the competition of photography “Edges of the Guaíba Lake” promoted by the SMAN of Porto Alegre, Brazil, edition 2002.
Honor Mention in the competition of photography “Portuguese Settling in the Rio Grande do Sul State” promoted by the Restaurant Squids, of Porto Alegre, Brazil, in December of 2007
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