F. Gonçalves
The Brandenburg Gate in black silhouette against an orange sky, the sun setting just behind the quadriga on top.

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Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. 2024

From the Boat, Finland. 2026Corriere di Siena, Siena. 2026Reading, Siena. 2026San Galgano, Chiusdino. 2026Sailboat, Tuscan coast. 2026IFC in Fog, Victoria Harbour. 2026The Other Photographer, Victoria Harbour. 2026Harbour at Night, Victoria Harbour. 2026Harbour in Fog, Victoria Harbour. 2026Looking Up, Hong Kong. 2026Towers, Hong Kong. 2026Tram 124, Admiralty. 2026Tram 158, Admiralty. 2026Canton Tower, Guangzhou. 2026Opera House, Guangzhou. 2026Reflection, Guangzhou. 2026Wat Paknam, Bangkok. 2026China Town Scala, Chinatown, Bangkok. 2026Yaowarat Road, Chinatown, Bangkok. 2026Sunset in the Field, Western Australia. 2025Seagrass, Shark Bay. 2025Shoreline, Shark Bay. 2025The Road North, Shark Bay. 2025Shark Bay from Above, Shark Bay. 2025Milky Way, Western Australia. 2025La Trobe Reading Room, State Library Victoria, Melbourne. 2025Daruma, Katsuo-ji, Minoh. 2025Eaves and Sun, Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto. 2025Kiyomizu-dera Pagoda, Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto. 2025Pagoda under Leaves, Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto. 2025Three Tiers, Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto. 2025Eaves in Mist, Kyoto. 2025Seagull, Matosinhos. 2025Last Wave, Matosinhos. 2025Dusk over the Tracks, Warschauer Straße, Berlin. 2025Fernsehturm at Sunset, Warschauer Straße, Berlin. 2025S-Bahn at Sunset, Warschauer Straße, Berlin. 2025Great Wall in Autumn, Mutianyu. 2024The Sassi, Matera. 2024Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. 2024Spring Valley, South Tyrol. 2024Grand Lisboa, Macau. 2023St. Benno in Snow, Maxvorstadt, Munich. 2023Golden Roof, Liberty Square, Taipei. 2023Longshan Temple, Wanhua, Taipei. 2023Painted Lantern, Wanhua, Taipei. 2023Wind and Rain, Wanhua, Taipei. 2023Double-Decker, London. 2023St Paul's, City of London. 2023White Chapel, Tyrol. 2023Ping An, Ningbo. 2023Market in the Rain, Mong Kok. 2023Temple Lanterns, Hong Kong. 2023Neon Nights, Kowloon. 2023Taxi in the Rain, Hong Kong. 2022Above Laos, Vang Vieng. 2022Four Boys, Vang Vieng. 2022Hut and Mountain, Jatiluwih, Bali. 2022Palms and Terraces, Jatiluwih, Bali. 2022Rice Terraces, Jatiluwih, Bali. 2022Udeng, Jatiluwih, Bali. 2022Ulun Danu Beratan, Bedugul, Bali. 2022Fire Dancer, Gili Islands. 2022Fire Dancer, Turning, Gili Islands. 2022Wat Rong Khun, Chiang Rai. 2022Canal at Night, Chiang Mai. 2022Alter Südfriedhof, Munich. 2022On the Pier, Oslo. 2022Lone Tree, Sweden. 2022Hope, Gothenburg. 2022Big Ben, Westminster, London.Boathouse, Ed.Cliffs in Fog, Costa Vicentina.Fernsehturm, Alexanderplatz, Berlin.Monster Building, Quarry Bay.Night Traffic, Chiang Mai.Theatinerkirche in Snow, Munich.Wat Arun, Bangkok.West Lake Boat, Hangzhou.Window Light, Ningbo.

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Series

  1. Red, pink and yellow neon signs with Chinese characters stacked above a narrow street at night.01Hong Kong and MacauHong Kong · Kowloon · Mong Kok · Macau · Admiralty · Victoria Harbour · Quarry Bay. 14 photographs, 2022–2026Hong Kong looking up and looking out: neon over Kowloon, tenements closing in on a strip of sky, trams on Queensway, and the harbour on a night when the cloud came down to the rooftops. Macau is here too, an hour across the water, with the Grand Lisboa rising out of an old street.View the series
  2. An orange hot-air balloon printed with the words Above Laos floats over a village road lined with trees, houses and power lines, limestone hills behind.02Southeast AsiaChiang Mai · Chiang Rai · Gili Islands · Bali · Vang Vieng · Bangkok. 16 photographs, 2022–2026Thailand, Laos and Indonesia: temples, neon, rice terraces and fire. Bangkok's Chinatown at night, the White Temple in Chiang Rai, a balloon over Vang Vieng, and the terraces and water temples of the Balinese highlands.View the series
  3. Hundreds of red daruma dolls marked with the character for victory are piled together, one large daruma in the centre looking straight at the camera.03JapanKyoto · Minoh. 6 photographs, 2025Kyoto and the hills north of Osaka in late October, as the maples began to turn. Vermilion pagodas seen from below, a temple roof in the mist, and a pile of daruma at the temple of winning.View the series
  4. The Great Wall climbs a steep ridge through autumn trees in orange, yellow and green, with a stone watchtower and a few walkers on the steps.04ChinaNingbo · Mutianyu · Guangzhou · Hangzhou. 7 photographs, 2023–2026The mainland, from the Great Wall in autumn to Zaha Hadid's opera house in Guangzhou. Mist on West Lake in Hangzhou, lanterns and window light in Ningbo, and the Canton Tower in black and white.View the series
  5. A large oval lantern with red characters and a green painted dragon hangs lit against the black night sky above a temple roof.05TaipeiTaipei. 4 photographs, 2023One night and one morning in Taipei. Lanterns and gilded carving at Longshan Temple after dark, and a golden roof at Liberty Square the next day.View the series
  6. Aerial view of a curving white beach between turquoise shallow water and red scrubland, with a pale bay and a small town on the horizon.06AustraliaMelbourne · Western Australia · Shark Bay. 7 photographs, 2025The State Library in Melbourne, then Western Australia in December: red sand roads, a sky full of stars and the seagrass shallows of Shark Bay seen from the air. Shark Bay is a World Heritage site for that seagrass, and from above you can see why.View the series
  7. Three people sit and stand on a stone wall looking across the pale stone houses of the Sassi di Matera, stacked up the hillside in evening light.07Southern EuropeSouth Tyrol · Matera · Matosinhos · Tuscan coast · Chiusdino · Siena · Costa Vicentina. 9 photographs, 2024–2026Italy and Portugal: the Sassi of Matera, a roofless abbey in Tuscany, a man reading the paper in Siena, a spring valley in South Tyrol. And the Atlantic coast of Portugal, in fog in the south and at sunset on the beach at Matosinhos.View the series
  8. The brick towers of St. Benno's church in Munich above a snow-covered street lined with parked cars, the low sun shining down the road.08Central EuropeMunich · Tyrol · Berlin. 9 photographs, 2022–2025Germany and Austria, mostly Munich and Berlin. Snow on Munich's churches, the old cemetery wall in black and white, Berlin's television tower from the bridge at Warschauer Straße, and one white chapel in the Tyrol.View the series
  9. A woman walks away down an evening street past a lit sign reading HOPE, with strings of flags hung between the buildings.09Northern EuropeGothenburg · Sweden · Oslo · City of London · London · Finland · Ed. 8 photographs, 2022–2026Sweden, Norway, Finland and London. Long summer evenings on still lakes, a woman at the end of a pier in Oslo, a sign reading HOPE in Gothenburg, and London landmarks framed by what stands around them.View the series