Various Artists

Mark Curran

The Lausitz lies in the southeastern part of the Province of Brandenburg in the former East Germany (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) where it meets the Polish border. Of Sorb origin (a Slavic language group), the region has been shaped by the timeline of industrialisation, where along with its capital, Cottbus/Chosebuz was defined as a Model State of the DDR. As part of the largest opencast mining territory in Europe, the Tagebau lies north, east and south of the city and continues to be extended, leading to epic scale destruction of t...

Oscar Fernando

Vital curiosity, inborn visual intelligence, sensitivity and a great humanity, impart Óscar Fernando Gomez’s photos some of the most crystal clear and clever perceptions we have seen in recent photography. He photographs what he sees but what he does see and the way he captures it interests us all. It is the nuance and the difference of his works. His eyes are not contaminated by photographic nor by what one is “supposed to photograph”, nor by mediatic pursuit. He is visually pure and he shows us with love, a world of beauty and pain, h...

Virgílio Ferreira

The 'Uncanny Places' project is settled upon the expressive ambiguity of certain images, which are both familiar and foreign at the same time. In my view, these images evoke fragments of the contemporary world. A world of strangeness and similarity, hallucinatory, made of blurred and everchanging boundaries. My pictures aim to get away from that regulated world, without leaving it, but inspecting it.   The project deals with binaries such as the logic versus the magical, the rational and the irrational. Poetic experiments are cre...

José Pedro Cortes

Some time ago I lived in Tel Aviv for nine months. During this period I met four young Jewish women who were born in the USA.   They had all decided, at the age of 18, to go to Israel to do the military service. After completing the required two years of service, they decided to stay and live in this idyllic Middle Eastern city.

Pedro Stephan

Under the mark of the strange, photographer Pedro Stephan presents his photographic essay, “Luana Muniz, the queen of Lapa”. Depicted in rare footage, Lapa’s so-called cross-dresser, impresario and mistress epitomizes Eros and Thanatos. These shots were made at different times, and add an important item to the endless world-image that surrounds us.   The transgender issue is virtually untapped in Brazilian photography, more due to taboo than to fascination, when in fact it is so blatant and constant in our daily life. From the po...

Dragan Tomas

Irish Travellers are traditionally a nomadic people living in Ireland with a history as ellusive and complex as the culture itself. They have their own language and live by a “travellers code” that sets them apart - a culture within a culture. In the Irish language Travellers are known as Lucht Siúil, which means, the walking people. They are not gypsies and their existence wouldn’t be commonly known of outside Ireland, Great Britain and the United States.   In “Leaving the Road”, photographer Dragan Tomas, focuses on a community...

Marina Del Mar

Quotidian-festivity refers to those yearly actions and traditions that are part of the rites and activities belonging to the cultural body of any community. These are actions that hold the transmission of ancient knowledge which controlled – and keeps controlling, though with some subtleties – a ritual of recognition and belonging to the group. If we apply it to our society we can see they go on happening and they contribute to build what we call identity. Photography has been and it still is one of the most profound revolutions in huma...

Various Artists

There are many unemployed in Portugal, their number increasing every day. Precarious work is all over Many people have a job and yet they need the support of others and they appeal to food banks. Some others live above their possibilities. Having a house of their own is not for everyone even though both the Constitution and the publicity say so. Banks live above our possibilities. About fifty percent of the elderly people live from pensions beneath the poverty line. A lot of changes are required. But we do want to preserve our National ...

André Cepeda

Yesterday is the title of this project that started when I met H., who used to park cars in front of my house. As I walked my dog every day we would often end up talking. I showed him my interest in getting to know the streets he ran through and the quarters he hanged about. I was interested in knowing those territories, the back of the houses, the hidden landscapes of Porto, the alternative pathways through the city’s quarters, places to which, not knowing very well, I’ve been dedicating myself for some time past. We would work every w...

Stephane C.

Stéphane C.’s images constitute a sedimentary set of photographs. It is a composition arranged in layers. Compact and dense, regarding not only textures but also depths. Light sweeps black in order to set the subjects away from darkness which made them unintelligible, till then immersed in obscurity. We are facing a process of materialization. Hence there is archaeology of reality which struggled to reveal what was hidden, diminutive, in order to bring it out into the open. An everyday process consisting of a methodical and long term re...

André Príncipe

Come with us to places in the city, and meet this special kind of people who somehow, committed the first rebellious act that someone can perform…refusing to sleep. That’s the real rebellion against life, that’s a real human idea… I refuse to sleep, I’m going to protest the idea of sleep, by turning night into day,… I’m going to rebel, and drink and womanize all night, and in this I shall time death, the natural process of destruction, decay and regeneration. A trip to the end of the night in Lisbon. 18 minutes, HD pal, cor.