Octavio Diaz-Berrio, A.M.P.A.

Photographer / Director of Photography

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Octavio Quintanilha Diaz-Berrio was born on January 13th, 1943 at Oporto, Portugal.

He is the eldest son of Octavio Diaz-Berrio Vivas and Maria Cecilia Carvalho Quintanilha, (sister of Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha), whom father was the biologist Aurelio Pereira da Silva Quintanilha. With his grandfather and his friend Vitorino Nemesio (they were both from Terceira, Azores) learned the pleasure of long talks.

Gives up Painting and Architecture to pursue the Light.

His first steps in photography happened with the age of 10 when he trades a stamp collection by his first camera. Became professional in 1968 by the hand of Mario Neves through the Cinema, where he learned to “Write with the Light” with some well-known Directors of Photography such as Elso Roque, Acacio de Almeida and Roby Muller (actually in Hollywood). together with Directors as Sinde Filipe ("O Piano"), António Macedo ("Nojo aos Cães", "A Promessa", "O Rico, o Camelo e o Reino ou O Princípio da Sabedoria"), Manoel de Oliveira ("Benilde ou a Virgem Mãe") e Peter Lilienthal ("Reyna la Tranquilidad").

His hunger of aesthetic-technique sense of purism turns him to Still Photography where he develops his skills on the fields of Fashion, Advertising, Industry and Editorial.

Was teacher of "Photography" and "Theory of Photography" in the School of Visual Arts Antonio Arroyo and IADE - Institute of Art and Design, as so.

Is member of Portuguese Authors Society (S.P.A.); the Master Photographers Ass., United Kingdom, gave him the highest associate ship - "A.M.P.A." in 1979.

Selected by ADIP - Art Director’s Index to Photographers, Switzerland, to international exhibitions (1984) sponsored by Japanese Kodak and Dentsu the Advertising Agency, at Tokyo and Osaka, where he wins the first and second rewards.

Had probations with F. C. Gundlach (PPS studios, Hamburg, Germany), and Acacio de Almeida (Centro Galego de Artes de Imaxe, Spain) and Sinar, Switzerland - Fashion Photography, The Light in the Cinema and Large Format Photography, as so.

With his images helps to sell ice creams, whisky and shirts… but still remain astonished with what light can do, when well used, in single silver grains.

Uses NIKON, HASSELBLAD and SINAR and naturally computer and associated image software (Photoshop and Corel Draw).

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