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João Mota da Costa (born 1954) is a plastic surgeon, specializing in hand surgery.
He began photographing in 1969, though with an irregular path due to professional reasons. Since 2011, he has devoted more time to photography, developing his own artistic projects and attending several courses at Atelier de Lisboa, in projects guided by contemporary Portuguese photographers, as well as completing a postgraduate degree in Discourses of Contemporary Photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon (2015–2016).

Solo Exhibitions: Abstrações, Galeria Arthobler, Lisbon (2010) and Tondela (2011); Lunch Time Affair – Chapter I (ten rooms for sex), Encontros da Imagem de Braga (2013);
PIN, Caldas da Rainha (2015); Do Outro Lado do Espelho (Lisbon, 2018); E Agora (Caldas da Rainha, 2021); Angst (Lisbon, 2023; Caldas da Rainha, 2025); The Whale (Ponta Delgada, Açores).

Publications: A Torre (2014); Álamos (2015); Do Outro Lado do Espelho (2018); Dissecar(2019); Angst (2025).