Open Theme nominee

This series explores the universe of spiciness. Through minimalist and carefully staged compositions, everyday objects are displaced from their functional context and converted into symbols: the bottle, the sauce, and the pepper cease to be food and become body, energy, and explosion.
The pepper emerges as an element that oscillates between seductive and aggressive, between humor and danger. The controlled lighting and monochromatic backgrounds create a gallery atmosphere, where each image functions as a study of form, color, and tension. The repetition of red — associated with pleasure, blood, and alertness — reinforces the emotional and sensory intensity of the narrative.

As a whole, the series questions the relationship between consumption and fetish, advertising and art, proposing an ambiguous reading: what is normally presented as "flavor" is here elevated to a visual spectacle, becoming simultaneously attractive and unsettling.

Antonio Bernardino Coelho from Portugal I am an electrical engineer, and I have an enormous interest for photography.
Sony Awards National award 2018 and 2020
Xposure 2017 wnner in stilllife
Monochrome Awards 2017 - 3rd place in conceptual, honorable mention, 2018 - Honorable mention in Architecture and conceptual;
35awards 2016, 2nd place in conceptual, in best photo project;
Monovisions 2017 - Honorable mention in Conceptual and nature
Monovisions 2018 - Honorable mention in Conceptual
FAPA AWARDS 2017, 2019, 2021 - Nominee
Gold award and 2nd place at MIFA 2021, silver at MIFA 2021.
2nd place at VIPA awards, first edition.
WPE awards 2021, gold award;
Umbra awards 2019 and 2020, 2nd place in architecture;
Xposure 2021-guest photographer;
PX3 2021, Advertising New Talent
IPA 2021 - Adverstising photographer of the year
ND awards 2021, 1st place in conceptual
1st place in the contest of APPimagem - Portugal
BIFA 2021 - silver
Tokyo foto awards 2021 - gold in advertising
Annual photo awards 2021, advertising winner
IPA 2022 - 2nd place (the world today!)
PX3 2022 - Special new talent
MIFA2022 - winner
wpe 2021 - GOLD
SIENA 2021 -2022 COMMENDED
IRIX 2021 winner
Marumi 2021 and 2022 contest winner
100ASA ambassador