Tag Archives: Portugal

“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 Solidarity), founded in 1994 to promote and support the empowerment and autonomy of people in a situation of homelessness and extreme poverty. A member of several international organizations, CAIS also has an...

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

This bloody war, that was going to be named Portuguese Colonial War, ended only in the 1974 when the Portuguese regimen full down.

Man always search answers. Throughout history, throughout the ages, we are continually looking for ways to justify our existence, reasons to justify what our mind could not. Long time ago, some truths were taken for granted…