Tag Archives: Portugal

This series documents the Saint Stephen feast in Ousilhão, Municipality of Vinhais, Portugal. These rituals are of pagan origins, Roman and Celtic. These figures run through the village, enlivening the party with tricks and mischief, spreading chaos between the population and the visitors.

SOMEWHERE there IS MY BIG FISH. We had a difficult relationship. We are like two fish: trying to say something to each other, but do not understand each other.

“She looks into me” consists of a series of intimate images that hold a deep reverence for a time when the mystery of life and the mystery of death were closely related.

These images reveal us rituals threatened both by globalization and by the folklore that the tourist flows feed, and perpetuate an endangered world.

Present in Lisbon since 1830 and surviving till the modern age of consumerism, the Hospital de Bonnecas repairs and restores dolls by tradition.

Origin is about my roots and family. Seeing the simplicity of my origins gave me a feeling of deep sympathy and tenderness towards them.

“Carnival Warriors” is the title of a long-term project that aims to document the Carnival rituals that take place in the archipelago of the Azores.

Achieve every woman of the world which is in childbearing. One of the facts most natural is, sometimes, treated as something totally unknown.

Broken Ground is a particular landscape that we can find in the city periphery, where a different organization and interaction between man and space is visible… (photo essay by Ana Catarina Pinho)

Science has demonstrated that each person makes their own interpretation of what they visualize, according to their experiences and what is more relevant to them. (Photo essay by Nuno Awouters)

Awake is a trip, one movement, one errant situation where anyone could enter. But there was no one, it was me. What caused it? And why? Until today I can’t explain, but I moved all those nights with insomnia… (photo essay by Fábio Miguel Roque)

“The Latest” is journey in the lower Portuguese social class, the struggle that 3 millions of Portuguese live every day, the 30% of Portuguese population considered poor.

Sr. Antonio in Cais backyard. 15/12/2013. Lisbon, Portugal CAIS is a Charity, an IPSS (Private Institution for Social...

In this series in tried to portrait in a personal fiction the state of mind that prevails in Portugal in the 21 century...