The Most Famous
PHOTOGRAPHERS from Portugal
This page contains a list of the greatest Portuguese Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 105 Photographers, 1 of which were born in Portugal. This makes Portugal the birth place of the 28th most number of Photographers behind Australia and Puerto Rico.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Portuguese Photographers of all time. This list of famous Portuguese Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Fernando Pereira (1950 - 1985)
With an HPI of 42.94, Fernando Pereira is the most famous Portuguese Photographer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Fernando Pereira (10 May 1950 – 10 July 1985) was a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer, who drowned when French intelligence (DGSE) detonated a bomb and sank the Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on 10 July 1985. The bombing of the boat had been designed to make the ship unsalvageable. The first smaller bomb bent the propeller shaft, making repair uneconomic. Pereira stayed inside the boat to get his camera and other pieces of equipment. The second, more powerful explosion, designed to sink the boat, caused a huge inrush of seawater that drowned Pereira. The Rainbow Warrior led a flotilla of yachts protesting against French nuclear testing at Mururoa Atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia and was about to depart Auckland for a campaign of legal demonstrations in international waters near the French military operational areas at Moruroa Atoll.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as photographers born between 1950 and 1950. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased photographers include Fernando Pereira.
