João Cabral works and lives in Porto city. He studied photography at IPF, Portuguese Institute of Photography. He went there already with a painting background, a degree in Fine Arts University of Oporto that was essential for his approach to classic photography through light, drawing and composition.

His work lies between a more documentary approach to street photography and urban landscape photography, where architecture takes on a prominent role. For him, photography is a means of artistic expression, through which he seeks to tell inner stories, revealed in the street through people, their emotions, and the way they inhabit space.

In street photography, he looks for figures with emotions, expressions, and gestures with which he establish an empathetic and personal connection. To create stories, these figures are embedded in the urban landscape through light and shadow, composition, and feeling.

Among the photographers who influenced his artistic path are Fan Ho, Brassaï, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others.