"The work of Mauro Pinto (Maputo, 1974) draws us into the social spaces, living conditions and experiences of a society that is constantly in question. As an artist working through the medium of photography, Pinto’s political position is based on a perspective that is the result of the anthropological treatment of one of the many ways in which humankind can be observed. This way of looking at the world, which I consider to be the act of observation, arises from a social and cultural contextualization which in the work of Mauro Pinto is centred around human presence, even when this is not immediately perceptible." (Silvério, João (2020) Blackmoney)