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Medusa series, untitled (Mostar, right bank of Stari Most)· mp
way-home series · mp
Terra Cinza conscientious position series · mp
Alqueva changing landscape awaiting people · mp
Road on series (ongoing, slowly) · mp
Medusa · primordial soup, untittled ·mp
Figo-new-generation series, untitled · mp
Estranged Trees series, untitled, 2005-

Miguel Proença • Terra Cinza pictures the combusted, charred landscape resulting from devastating forest fires in the Algarve, and the remnants of the abandoned (1964) São Domingos mine, in the Alentejo, both in south Portugal. Ancestral relationships and livelihoods of local people with their environment and ecology radically changed, radically removed. · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença • Medusa pictures a a fictional ever-changing journey, based on documentary photography work anchored on the unanchorable lightness of … a jellyfish, a fiction · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença • Sinigaglia Fair serves as stage to a crowd from all over in search for the object of chance, of desire. Surely Breton’s Cendrier Cendrillon is here, hiding somewhere. · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença • Miguel Proença • Miguel Proença • Miguel Proença • Miguel Proença • This is certainly a landscape undergoing incredibly accelerated change by man after hundreds of years to form. Buckling under human pressure towards a tourist based economy a new landscape is created where the original and traditional lifestyle is replaced by an an unsustainable fictional one that swiftly erodes local soil and cultures. Tourism as a guarantee, a buffer for economic and political stability and a one path route to development. Photography as a thought/thinking process about the issues of man made landscape and environmental pressures. Searching for how traditional landscape can be updated to present time with its amazing essence. · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença • Terra Cinza a conscientious position continues the thrust of the Terra Cinza work picturing radically changed landscapes in South Portugal. The focus now shifts towards a conscientious change in the landscape through the implementation of high tech agricultural practises and other land uses and occupation. · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença • photographer · Alqueva - changing scape pictures the accelerated economic development pressures on people and on the environment, however carefully implemented. A political option for water reserves and industrial farming has led the Alqueva region into an incredible changing scape. Originally populated by local people practising traditional sustainable farming, conserving water and soils, with traditional olive, grape and oak species, the clearing of the reservoir basin and the filling of the dam has culled this sustainability; rising land and water costs have opened this environment to unsustainable pressure where large scale intensive high tech farming is becoming the norm. Tectonic ancestral environmental existence in this portrait. · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença • Road on, pictures an ongoing work on road trip wanderings and meanderings, presented at the National Society dor FIne Arts (SNBA), Lisbon, 2017. · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença • Alqueva - changing scape pictures the accelerated economic development pressures on people and on the environment, however carefully implemented. A political option for water reserves and industrial farming has led the Alqueva region into an incredible changing scape. Originally populated by local people practising traditional sustainable farming, conserving water and soils, with traditional olive, grape and oak species, the clearing of the reservoir basin and the filling of the dam has culled this sustainability; rising land and water costs have opened this environment to unsustainable pressure where large scale intensive high tech farming is becoming the norm. Culled landscape. · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença • Primordial Soup starts with a photograph from the Terra Cinza series, in search of the origins of photography. · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença • Figo-new-generation pictures a new changing generation of farm work and workers. The key to sustainable agriculture is certainly based on tradition - what has gone before - and on compatible innovation that takes a farming system to another level. · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença · Estranged Trees questions our colonising relationship with nature and environment, where, to simplify natural complexity, orderly patterns are printed on landscape, a confluence towards a global landscape type, thus becoming a non-landscape, or a non-place. The interested observer is left to find a path through this “estranged” forest. · Miguel Proenca · mp

Miguel Proença · photo work

A selection of recent & past (70s) author photo work, including Way home, Terra Cinza, Arcades, Alqueva – changing scape, Sinigaglia Fair, Sunday Afternoon, as well as others.

News blog about ongoing activities (work, exhibitions, workshops, conferences and others, periodically updated). Recent environmental work (soil, land, plant, farm, -scape, portrait, documentary) coming.

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A selection of publications, more info on the about page.

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