Ana Janeiro uses self-portraiture and performance photography in her artistic research. She is currently a doctoral student at the CREAM research centre at the University of Westminster, London. Her PhD thesis explores the construction of identity through self-portraiture and family photography. She studied fine Arts at the Universidade de Lisboa, in Lisbon and in the Kent Institute of Art and Design (MA Photography) in Rochester, UK. She has exhibited regularly since mid-2000. The following solo shows are of special note: “La Vue. Deux Objets charment une belle, un amant, un miroir fidele”;, Palácio Marquês de Pombal (2016); ALBUM, Índia Portuguesa 1951-1961, Laboratório das Artes, Guimarães (2010); “Who’s the fairest one of all?”, Paulo Amaro Gallery, Lisbon (2010); “Onze”, Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon (2005). She is an Invited Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Media Studies of the Lisbon Polytechnic. She is represented in several art collections.