José Sérgio (Maputo, 1970). While growing up, he did a lot of sport and some theater, but eventually settled on photography, which became his professional activity. Still in Mozambique, he started out as a photographer at Editora Escolar INDE and worked as a photojournalist for various news organizations, alongside other photographic production and editing jobs. Between 1996 and 1999, he worked for the international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders as an operational supervisor and was responsible for the photographic coverage of programs to combat cholera. In Portugal, he was a photojournalist for the weekly Blitz from 2000 to 2006 and for the weekly Sol between 2006 and 2015. He is currently a freelance photographer. "Present! Africanos e Afrodescendentes no Porto" is his first photography book and follows on from his second solo exhibition with the same title, which in 2020 was held at Mira Fórum in Porto. In 2019, he exhibited "A Viagem que Guerra Junqueiro nunca fez" at the Guerra Junqueiro House-Museum in Porto.