Photo-Therapy Day 2019: Ayres Marques Pinto

Ayres Marques Pinto

17 November 1958 São Paulo – Brazil

Semiologist, Coordinator of Photo-Therapy Research Group “GRIFO”, Italy

Art Director of “Right to the End”: Living Well Festival

In the 80’s, I have studied History at USP University of São Paulo, Brazil; Philosophy at Pavia University, Italy and obtained a Master Degree in Modern Languages and Literature at “UFRN” University, Natal – RN, Brazil.

After having lived in England, Italy and Germany, I have completed, With Honours, a Post Graduation Course in Communication and Non-Verbal Expression: Psychomotricity, Music Therapy and Performance at the “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice.

I am also graduated in Social Psychology by “La Sapienza” University of Rome.

From 1990 to 2000 Gigliola Capodaglio and I ran the “Babilônia” Cultural Centre, a mix of Gallery and School of Arts, Photography as well as Languages. As recognition for the contribution given to local cultural development I received the Natal Honorary Citizenship.

In 2003 I helped to create GRIFO – Gruppo di Ricerca sulla Foto-Terapia, an Interdisciplinary Photo-Therapy Research Group.

Since then, I have collaborated in interdisciplinary projects aimed to explore the potentiality of employing Photography and Photographic Acts in adulthood training, mental health, geriatric institutions and in palliative care.

“The Face and the Voice of Time” and “One Day, Poetry…” are two of the books I have written or edited.