Photography

Ana Carvalho

"Time was a key element. The same routine day after day and the feeling that there was no perspective, no way out, as if the space was shrinking and I was walking in circles. This is why I chose the clock as a main symbol, not only for the time that goes by, but, more so, for the time that passes so slowly it seems to freeze. Other symbols are closed doors, their repetition, the light shining through the windows."

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Teresa dos Santos

"Maps

I always walk straight ahead; this is the only direction I know, the only one I want to know.

This is why I don’t need a map.

Time

Calendars are stupid. It’s stupid that lives are imprisoned by them. That they restrict feelings and emotions to numbers, scales, formalities, patterns, concepts.

On Friday we will be together. On Friday we will hug each other. On Friday we will be happy. On Friday, only on Friday. Can you wait until Friday?

Only time is free; we are not.

Emptiness

Emptiness is the name of the space which exists between us. The one which we can roam together."

Lockdown Dictionary, by Paulo Kellerman, translated by Maya Szaniecki (read here)

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José Luís Jorge

FÁTIMA STRIPPED BARE

Fátima is a place of multitudes, a redundant statement that won’t surprise anyone. We all know this, whether from personal experience or having seen it onscreen. But then 2020 arrived – a year the likes of which no one can remember – and the place of multitudes transformed into an immense desert (only silence and stillness, somehow more in accordance with a place associated with religiousness and spirituality).

During April of 2020, I visited the sanctuary four times, moved by curiosity, and discovered a Fátima stripped bare of pilgrims and tourists. Those who have witnessed a million people concentrated in that space – such a powerful experience – and are then confronted by the emptiness of that very same space, cannot help but feel a heavy shock to the senses. That’s what happened to me. It’s that unusual Fátima, so distant from its archetype, that I aimed to document through images.

(Translated by Gabriela Ruivo Trindade & Victor Meadowcroft)

Carla de Sousa

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Goretti Pereira

These abstract black-and-white analogue images reflect my time of isolation in 2020, which made me feel trapped physically and emotionally. As a photographer, I was forced to explore my immediate surroundings, developing a new appreciation for the mundane and ordinary things. This shifted my perspective and allowed me to express myself in a more abstract way.