{"id":4623,"date":"2026-04-23T13:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:05:00","slug":"carlos-uqueio-e-a-vida-que-acontece-sem-aviso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/2026\/culture\/carlos-uqueio-e-a-vida-que-acontece-sem-aviso\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Uqueio and life that happens without warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\r\n<p><strong><em>Uqueio also asks us all to be aware of these phenomena.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_4628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4628\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4628\" src=\"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/carlos-uqueio-490x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/carlos-uqueio-490x700.jpg 490w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/carlos-uqueio-1400x2000.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/carlos-uqueio-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/carlos-uqueio-1076x1536.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/carlos-uqueio-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/carlos-uqueio-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/carlos-uqueio.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Carlos Uqueio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>Sometimes, life happens without warning, and yet, as if to surprise the sudden moments, the photojournalist finds himself challenged to document reality. This has been the life of Carlos Uqueio, the \"Reporter of Shadows and Hopes,\" as he calls himself in his first book.<\/p>\r\n<p>The work is the result of 18 years of career behind the camera, with which he immortalized different realities of Mozambique and more than 20 countries he had the privilege of visiting. His catalog includes moments that marked at least the last two decades.<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\"This book is born from the streets, the neighborhoods, the moments when life happens without warning and without staging,\" stated the man who not only presents well-captured images, but \"crosses photography and writing to offer not only the perspective, but also the context.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>According to journalist Pretil\u00e9rio Matsinhe, who presented \u201cReporter of Shadows and Hope: Photography as a Testimony of Reporting\u201d this Wednesday in Maputo, the book goes beyond a simple visual record, constituting an appeal to collective conscience.<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\u201cWe have often seen cities flooded, urban and suburban neighborhoods underwater, and our perplexity lies in the fact that we cannot find a solution to a recurring problem,\u201d he said, adding that Uqueio also \u201casks us all for this awareness of these phenomena.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>(By Lucas Muaga)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Uqueio also asks us all to be aware of these phenomena.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[caption id=\"attachment_4628\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"490\"]<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4628\" src=\"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp...\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[1835,311,1837,1517,1834,1836,1838],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-destacadas","tag-carlos-uqueio","tag-fotojornalismo","tag-fotojornalista","tag-livro","tag-pretilerio-matsinhe","tag-reporter-de-sombras-e-esperancas","tag-vida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4630,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}