Patricia Almeida

• Name — Patrícia Almeida • Born — 1970 • Birthplace — Lisbon, Portugal • Died — 21 November 2017 • Education — NOVA University Lisbon • Place of death — Lisbon • Known for — Documentary photography

Born in Lisbon in 1970, Almeida graduated in history from the NOVA University Lisbon and studied image and communication at Goldsmiths College, part of the University of London. She later became a professor at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD), at Caldas da Rainha.

Almeida's work focused mainly on documentary photography, with particular attention to urban life. In 2001 she travelled to Tokyo, which led to the book No Parking in 2004. This was published by POC Editions, a publishing house belonging to the Piece of Cake collective of European and North American photographers and visual artists, of which she was a member and presented at several of its exhibitions. In 2011 she co-founded the publishing house GHOST with her partner, David-Alexandre Guéniot. With GHOST, she participated in several international fairs, such as OffPrint in London and Paris, and Pa/per View in Brussels. Almeida's work can be found in the collections of the Serralves Foundation, the Novo Banco Collection, the EDP Foundation, the PLMJ Law Firm collection, the Coimbra Visual Arts Centre, the Portuguese Centre of Photography, the State Contemporary Art Collection of Portugal, and the Porto Municipal Art Collection. Her work was part of the Horizons exhibition for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris (2009), and of Impressions and Comments at the Fundació Foto Colectania in Barcelona (2010). In 2021, after her death, she was one of 40 women artists chosen by the Gulbenkian for an exhibition in Lisbon of 20th-century and early 21st-century Portuguese women's art, called All I Want (Tudo O Que Eu Quero).

Almeida died of cancer on 21 November 2017 in Lisbon. A retrospective exhibition of her photographs, entitled Transmissão (Transmission), was held in Guimarães in 2020. A retrospective of her work, compiled by Guéniot, was published in 2025.