Stories from Bulgaria
a [Kgaleria] convida para a inauguração da exposição de fotografia Stories from Bulgaria de Pepa Hristova.
31 de Janeiro a partir das 18:30h.
Mais informações na [Kgaleria]
Moving Cinema
This man projected more than three thousand different movies and it like the most part. This man run over three millions kilometres carrying his machine. This man story oversized any script. This man in the photographs doesn’t exist, but they call him António Feliciano and you can find him in Vila Nova de Milfontes. This man story that doesn’t exist it could became a movie that also doesn’t exist.
© Moving Cinema - Alexandre Almeida. click here to see the feature/essay
Carnaval - Nazaré
” During Carnival, the nightmare of thedark winter days is forgotten.The whole town stops to take a breath and launches itself into the Entrudo each year as if there would never be another…”
“This Carnival madness begins on the day of St Brás, on 3rd February. This a completeley pagan festival. Dionysian,with no priests or masses, but rather bonfires, dances, chorizos and red wine. The devil is let loose. Boys and girls in fancy dress, competing to see who has the wildest costume, dance around the Mount of St Brás, some way outside town.They sing, jump onto the bonfire, climb Mount Siano to visit the chapel and its saint, throw kisses and make promises to meet secretly for amorous encounters, in preparation for the great festival of Carnival. This chain of festivities only stops when the effigy of the ‘ Santo Entrudo’ is burnt on the beach on Ash Wednesday.”
Text by Jaime Rocha, in the “Ensaiar, photographs by Valter Vinagre”. Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon. 2005
Translation by Karen Bennett
© 2005, Monte Siano, Nazaré - Valter Vinagre. click here to see the feature/essay
© 2002, Carnaval, Nazaré - Valter Vinagre. click here to see the feature/essay
Português:
” O Carnaval surge como o momento fulcral em se esquece o pesadelo dos dias negros de Inverno. A Nazaré pára para tomar fôlego e arranca para o Entrudo de cada ano como se não esperasse mais nenhum …”
” …Esta loucura carnavalesca tem o seu ínicio no dia de São Brás, a 3 de Fevereiro. Trata-se de uma festa totalmente pagã, dionisíaca, sem padres nem missas, com fogueiras , danças, enchidos e vinho tinto. É o diabo que se solta .Rapazes e raparigas ensaiados (mascarados) cada um a seu modo, qual deles o mais trapalhão, dançam em volta do monte de São Brás, situado a alguma distância da vila. Cantam,saltam à fogueira, sobem ao Monte Siano para uma visita à capela e ao santo, beijam-se e prometem amores clandestinos entre si, preparando-se para as grandes noites de Carnaval. Esta cadeia de festividades só pára quando o Santo Entrudo é queimado a corpo inteiro na areia da praia, na quarta-feira de cinzas.”
Texto de Jaime Rocha, no livro “Ensaiar, fotografias de Valter Vinagre”. Assírio & Alvim, Lisboa. 2005
© 2005, Monte Siano, Nazaré - Valter Vinagre. clique aqui para ver o ensaio fotográfio
© 2002, Carnaval, Nazaré - Valter Vinagre. clique aqui para ver o ensaio fotográfio
Pelo Teu Livre Pensamento | For Your Free Thinking
No passado dia 17 (Janeiro 2008) João Pina inaugurou “Por teu Livre Pensamento” na galeria Point of View Art Gallery em Nova Iorque. Este trabalho foi inagurado e exposto pela primeira vez no Centro Português de Fotografia no ano de 2007.
“For your free thinking” is an exhibition of provoking black and white photographs by João Pina.
While the photographs themselves are rich and expressive, it is the story behind these images that really captures the attention. The images are of prisoners who were punished for having ideals that conflicted with the Portugese government – a dictatorial regime that lasted more than 48 years.
The story of political prisoners is not new, but the thing that makes this series so compelling is the personal attachment Pina has with the project – two of his Grandparents were imprisoned during this regime for thinking differently than the fascist party.
“To me, being born with this heritage and seeing all my generation not being informed of what happened just a few years before we were born, created an unconformable feeling within me. I felt it was my task to recover their memory, otherwise they would pass on – as some already had – and their stories would go with them,” said Pina.
Pina decided to pair up with Rui Daniel Galiza, a Portuguese writer, to interview and record these people’s stories. This resulted in their book, “Por teu livre pensamento”, which is being released in a number of European countries. Signed copies of the book will also be available at the Point of View Gallery.
“In a way, this is my homage to the ones who still fight for what they believe in, not really caring if they have a high price to pay for saying what they think,” said Pina.
The photographs are a composition of original mug shots, portraits that mirror the mug shots, and formal portraits of each person in recent years. These portraits are shot with warmth and respect, giving each person the dignity they deserve.
João Pina is a young, emerging photographer who started shooting commercially at the age of 18. In 2001, he began to focus on documentary photography with the commencement of his “For your free thinking” project. In 2002 he started to document Cuba, hoping to be a privileged observer of the future of that country. Since then he has been focusing on political movements in Latin America. Most recently, Pina started to photograph conflicts both in Latin America and the “War on Terror” in Afghanistan. His work has been published in Newsweek, The New York Times, GEO, El Pais, EPS, LV Magazine, D Magazine, Days Japan, Le Fígaro and Visão among others. He is now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, working on the scars that the military dictatorships have left on the southern cone on South America.
Estação do Calor
Estação do Calor é um projecto centrado nos problemas ecológicos que assolam a América do Sul. Guillaume Pazat, Jordi Burch e o escritor Luis Pedro Cabral, juntos deram início a um encontro que começou em Buenos Aires. Até final de Março, acompanhe-os em Estação do Calor.
Atenção: Isto não é uma viagem. É um encontro. É a forma de tomar o pulso ao nosso planeta, de perceber como sofre esta região, como ela nos afecta inevitavelmente, nós, humanidade. É uma viagem até ao fim do mundo, com início na cidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina, através da Patagónia, rumo a El Calafate até Ushuaia, no fim de qualquer coisa, com saída para a Antárctida, terra de ninguém, de cientistas e pinguins, reduto ecológico à beira de não ser protegido. Serve este caminho para mostrar o que há de errado com o Homem quando se serve dos seus recursos naturais para os esgotar, aniquilando-se lentamente, ou nem por isso.