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Road on

Road on, started out as one photograph presented at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes – Salão de artistas e sócios, Lisbon, from December 2016 until January 2017. It is a photographic series of work following road wanderings, meanderings, stops…

Books on Environment · Livros com Ambiente

Books on environment 6 April 2017 · 18h00 Series of talks on environmental issues, invites Luísa Schmidt, author of Portugal: Ambientes de Mudança, for a public session at the Biblioteca Municipal Álvaro de Campos. The author will be talking with…

Luísa Ferreira – “In search of another body”, Photography, São Brás, until Oct. 2014

À PROCURA DE UM OUTRO CORPO (“In search of another body” [free translation]) is a surprising photography exhibition that resulted from the photographer’s contact (in 1992) with a collection of sculptures by two local artists, Rosalina Passos e Joaquim Passos,…

António Ferro · word vertigo · by Margarida Acciaiuoli

António Ferro a vertigem da palavra – word vertigo – , by Margarida Acciaiuoli, is a book about the rhetoric, politics and propaganda of the Estado Novo before and after the 2nd World War. Bizâncio Editora, Lisbon. Photograph of the Assembly of the…

Corrosion by light

Corrosion by light (t. of Corrosão pela luz) is the working tittle for this process that explores the photographic self portrait genre approaching a cognitive frontier. It was initially presented in postcard format (10x15cm) at the 2007 initiativa-X at Arte Contempo a Lisbon…

Milano Free magazine · editorial · commission · work · 2000-01

Milano Free magazine · editorial · commission · editorial · covers During the Milan years (1997-2001) commissions included editorial work for the newly launched Milano Free magazine (Media UP). This was a monthly city guide based on local goings on…

UK in the 70s · Boarding school

UK in the 70s is a group of photographs whilst living as a student in England; first in boarding school and later at an art school to pursue a UK photographer training. Getting sent to an English boarding school in …

Lazing on a Sunday afternoon · escape · boarding school · UK 1970s & 80s · mp

Sunday afternoon was a time of escape, from routine, from uniform, a time of search for leisure, conviviality, experimentation. The window of opportunity was precisely timed, from 2 -6 pm GMT. Part of the work week was used deciding what…

Existential photography · rememoration · fragments · beware · mp

Existential photography · rememoration Looking back at photos can have two sides, on one a rememoration of who was present / what was being done, and the possibility of re-rememorating in an effort to make sense, to build some sort…

Portraits · casual portraits · UK in the 70s & 80s · boarding school · mp

Casual portraits One of the wonderful things about boarding school is the informality with which we talked, communicated between peers. This was particularly useful to try out portraits of schoolmates in various settings. I’m sure a lot more are in…