10.11.2025
Kalabongó exhibition coverage and Jorge Panchoaga interview by TSF.
To read here.
08.11.2025
The day after the opening of his exhibition, Jorge Panchoaga presents the book Kalabongó, nominated for the 2025 Book of the Year award by Aperture - Paris Photo.
Kalabongó, by Jorge Panchoaga, reveals the history and culture of San Basilio de Palenque, an Afro-descendant community on the Colombian coast that has been fighting for freedom and autonomy since 1599. The nighttime images capture the essence of this narrative, where the night becomes "an accomplice to the light of freedom."
In this session, the author will discuss his work process in an open conversation with the public.
07.11.2025
Kalabongó Opening
We have no words to express our gratitude for the presence of over two hundred people who gathered at NARRATIVA for two hours for the opening of an exhibition that is only complete through the actions of each visitor.
In Kalabongó, the darkness of night is complicit with freedom. Photography is testimony and resistance.
01.11.2025
1st Edition of PRÉMIO NARRATIVA - FUJIFILM
Nuno Andrade is the winner of the 1st edition of PRÉMIO NARRATIVA - FUJIFILM with PicNic, a work that shows Ponta dos Corvos, in Seixal, as a peripheral territory transformed into a space of freedom, conviviality, and collective belonging.
The 1st edition of the PRÉMIO NARRATIVA - FUJIFILM received 151 entries from authors residing in Portugal. This new distinction, dedicated to contemporary photography, aims to value original projects by authors in their initial or established phase, aged 18 or older.
The jury, composed of Emma Hardy, Augusto Brázio, and Mário Cruz, unanimously decided to award the prize to Nuno Andrade for the work PicNic, and gave honorable mentions to José Pedro Sousa (Olá mais tarde) and Katya Bogachevskaia (Pele do Mundo). The winning works highlight different perspectives, encompassing social essays, documentary photography, and authorial exploration.
The winner, Nuno Andrade, receives a prize of €3,500 and will have a solo exhibition at NARRATIVA in Lisbon, scheduled to open in January 2026. José Pedro Sousa and Katya Bogachevskaia will present their work in a public session at NARRATIVA.
NARRATIVA and Fujifilm Portugal thank all the participants who joined the first edition of the NARRATIVA – FUJIFILM Photography Prize.
You can learn more about the winning works here.
01.11.2025
Thank you all for attending the opening of the exhibition and the launch of the book Quando o vi dançar pela última vez, by Bruno Saavedra.
The exhibition will be on display until January 25, 2026, at the Cascais Cultural Center. The book is available on the author's website.
NARRATIVA is responsible for curating the exhibition and publishing the book.
The project originated in the NARRATIVA Masterclass and now takes shape as an author's book and a multidisciplinary exhibition.
Over three years, Bruno Saavedra dedicated his attention to a person in search of himself. The protagonist is Simão Telles — or Symone De Lá Dragma, “it doesn't matter,” as he likes to say. Born in Santarém, he moves between songs, drag, and performance, without allowing himself to be confined by labels.
The result is an intimate portrait, revealing days of certainties and uncertainties, of affirmations and concealments. It is the vulnerability that permeates us, the way space shapes who we are, and the urgency of preserving the freedom to be.
Congratulations, Bruno!
It was a memorable inauguration!
25.10.2025
João Salgueiro Baptista, winner of the FNAC New Talents Award 2025, will give a guided tour on the last day of the exhibition Saison Floue – Blurry Season.
An exhibition that delves into the marginalized lives of seasonal workers in France, offering a surprising and intimate perspective on a community reality marked by the influences of anarchism and punk.
A documentary project, produced from a first-person experience, captured in immersion in this context, whose focus is not on the objective particularities of the work, but on what happens on its periphery.
24.10.2025
Fujifilm Workshop: Introduction
Another edition of the Fujifilm Workshop: Introduction, the most popular workshop in our training program, is currently underway.
Over the course of a month, students will work on photographic technique, composition, and creative development.
The workshop is led by Rui Costa, winner of FNAC New Talent Award and professor at the Portuguese Institute of Photography, with the support of André Dias Nobre, Bárbara Monteiro, and Mário Cruz.
20.10.2025
Kalabongó exhibition | Jorge Panchoaga
We are delighted to share that the final exhibition of the year at NARRATIVA’s gallery is Kalabongó, by photographer Jorge Panchoaga, opening on November 7th at 7 pm in Lisbon.
With free entry, the exhibition, which showcases the work nominated for the 2025 Paris Photo Book of the Year Award, presents a visual journey through the memory, culture, and struggles of Afro-descendant communities in Colombia.
This is the first exhibition by the author, winner of five POY awards, in Portugal, and transforms NARRATIVA’s gallery into a unique immersive and sensory experience.
18.10.2025
Radiations of War book launch, by Yana Kononova
NARRATIVA hosted the book launch of Radiations of War, by Ukrainian artist Yana Kononova.
For Yana Kononova, war doesn't end when the sound of explosions fades. It lingers, saturating the earth and settling into the silence of devastated landscapes.
The Radiations of War project traces this persistent presence in Ukraine — not as a documentary record, but as an encounter with a terrain where the disaster continues after its impact. The land becomes both witness and archive.
When the frontline recedes, the ruins left behind reflect a changing landscape, laden with everything that passed through it. Kononova's images are testament to this process. They show how violence nests in the earth and how the weight of the absence of previous violence continues to act.
The work combines Kononova's images with poetry by Joyelle McSweeney. The book is published by FOTODOK and XYZ Books Lisbon and is part of the Intergalactic Creative Europe: Books for a Culture Without Borders initiative, co-financed by the European Union.
We thank everyone who attended the launch fof this book - a work that offers a unique perspective, far removed from journalistic documentation, on the war in Ukraine.
Our gratitude also extends to XYZ Books Lisbon, FOTODOK, and, of course, to Yana, for sharing her work process, her profound observations, and the tensions that permeate this work.
Starting today, the book is available for consultation in the NARRATIVA library.
11.10.2025
NARRATIVA at the Fujifilm X/GFX Tour 2025
As part of the Fujifilm X/GFX Tour 2025 initiative, which aims to promote a day dedicated to photography in different district capitals across Portugal, NARRATIVA participated through lectures, a pop-up library, and portfolio reviews.
This session took place in Beja.
Thank you all for participating.
09.10.2025
Talk: FNAC New Talents 2025 Authors
NARRATIVA, in partnership with FNAC, in addition to hosting the exhibition of the winning work of FNAC New Talents Award, promoted a conversation with the 2025 award-winning authors, Vasco Rafael Carvalho and António Saldanha.
Elves Raven Thousand Sausages, by Vasco Rafael Carvalho, is a visual exploration of life in the depths of the Icelandic Westfjords (Talknafjordur), where solitude, work, and the silent presence of nature intertwine. Using a thermal camera that prints on receipt paper, the project transforms everyday moments into a fragile, improvised archive, prone to disappearance.
Quanto pesa um segundo? by António Saldanha, presents an essay on a society experiencing burnout, in which the author reflects on how we accelerate time to such an extent that we force ourselves to consume and process experiences at breakneck speed, rendering everything superficial. This rhythm creates friction that ultimately wears us down, making us unable to disconnect from this circuit for fear of missing something.
Thank you all for coming.
08.10.2025
Quando o vi dançar pela última vez | Bruno Saavedra
Pre-orders for the book Quando o vi dançar pela última vez (When I saw him dance for the last time) by Bruno Saavedra, are now available.
The book stems from a project initiated at Masterclass NARRATIVA and has now become a work of its own and a multidisciplinary exhibition.
For three years, Bruno followed Simão Telles — or Symone De Lá Dragma, "whatever," an artist who moves between drag, music, and performance, reinventing himself in a dialogue between authenticity and acceptance. The result is an intimate observation on identity and belonging.
Edited by Mário Cruz and designed by Alex Paganelli, this book marks a new chapter in the author's career and in NARRATIVA's commitment to contemporary photography.
The book will be sold exclusively through the author's website. Copies will be available for pickup during the exhibition opening on November 1st, at 6 pm, at the Cascais Cultural Center.
Pre-order here.
Support: D. Luis I Foundation
02.10.2025
ROOF exhibition by Mário Cruz at Menorca Doc Fest
Over the course of ten years, ROOF has witnessed the plight of those surviving in abandoned spaces in the Portuguese capital.
Lisbon hides the faces of those living in inhumane conditions and those waging a lonely battle for decent housing.
ROOF was published by The New York Times and awarded by Magnum Photos and the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award.
The exhibition is part of the 7th edition of the Menorca Doc Fest, featuring an installation that occupies the facade of a vacant building next to the Mirante Claustre del Carme (Maó).
On display until November 2nd.
30.09.2025
PODCAST NARRATIVA
S03#E09 Saison Floue | Blurry Season - NFT Winner
In this episode, you'll hear from João Salgueiro Baptista, winner of the 2025 FNAC New Talent Award, about his project Saison Floue – Blurry Season.
This work immerses you in the marginalized lives of seasonal workers in France, providing an intimate glimpse into a community reality influenced by anarchism and punk culture.
The exhibition of the work is on display until October 25th at NARRATIVA’s gallery, through a partnership with FNAC.
To listen here.
27.09.2025
Lisbon Street Photo Fest
NARRATIVA is participating in the 1st edition of Lisbon Street Photo Fest and curating the festival's exhibitions.
Based on an international open call, two group exhibitions were created at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon cistern and gallery, reflecting different contemporary perspectives.
At the cistern, there is an exhibition with works by 21 photographers, revealing unique observations of daily life in different geographies.
The gallery features three visual narratives:
- Land of the Setting Sun by Skander Khlif, reflects on the constant change in the city of Dakar, Senegal.
- HÜZÜN by Kevin Wolf, explores the social contrasts of daily life in Istanbul, Turkey, in a photographic series that seeks to translate "hüzün" – the collective melancholy that defines the city's soul.
- New Wave by Gavin Libotte, examines the relationship with water as a space of liberation and revelation.
The exhibitions will be on display on September 27th and 28th, from 10am to 8pm.
21.09.2025
Fujifilm Workshop: Portrait
Today, another edition of Fujifilm workshop dedicated to portraiture was held, where technical and authorial skills were developed.
The session was led by Arlindo Camacho.
21.09.2025
Encontros da Imagem | Nuno Silva | Masterclass NARRATIVA
Nuno Silva is the winner of the 2025 Encontros da Imagem Portfolio Review Award with the project Enquanto o motivo não me encontrar developed during Masterclass NARRATIVA.
Enquanto o motivo não me encontrar is an urban exploration of visual discovery. A therapeutic exercise of personal search, between the concrete and the shadows, where each scene emerges as a reflection of a state of mind that finds itself and is separated from itself in the city's unknown landscape.
Congratulations, Nuno!
20.09.2025
NARRATIVA at Fujifilm X/GFX Tour 2025 | Faro
As part of the Fujifilm X/GFX Tour 2025 initiative, which aims to promote a day dedicated to photography in different district capitals across Portugal, NARRATIVA, with the participation of its director and photographer Mário Cruz, organized a conference, portfolio reviews, and presented a pop-up library from NARRATIVA’s collection.
The day concluded with the presentation of ROOF – a work developed over a decade that reveals the hidden side of the housing crisis in Lisbon. The work received an award from the Magnum Agency and was recognized in 2025 at the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award.
19.09.2025
Presentation of the book Fotografia e Direito (Photography and Law) by Mário Serra Pereira
Mário Serra Pereira's work, recently published by Almedina, provides a valuable and essential resource for photographers.
The presentation session at NARRATIVA was informative, and the book is now available in our library.
18.09.2025
Masterclass NARRATIVA 2025/2026
Selected Authors
Masterclass NARRATIVA currently occupies a unique place in the Portuguese photography landscape. Bringing together authors from different fields and backgrounds annually, it establishes itself as a privileged space for sharing, reflection, and experimentation.
After a demanding selection process – marked by the high number and quality of submissions – we are pleased to announce the authors selected for the 7th edition of Masterclass NARRATIVA:
Catarina Cesário Jesus
Cátia Valente
Denis Graeff
Fernando Pimenta
João Pedro Almeida
Raquel Antunes
Since 2018, Masterclass NARRATIVA has established itself as a space for the creation and development of photographic projects that explore contemporary themes, offering the time and reflection necessary for their development.
13.09.2025
Opening of the exhibition Saison Floue by João Salgueiro Baptista
This exhibition presents the winning work of the 2025 FNAC New Talents Award, promoted in partnership between NARRATIVA and FNAC, with the aim of valuing and promoting contemporary Portuguese photography.
Since its founding, NARRATIVA has focused on a program that combines recognized artists with those just starting out.
For over 20 years, FNAC New Talents Award has played a fundamental role in discovering and promoting emerging names.
The exhibition is open until October 25th.
Support: Fujifilm Portugal
Support and printing: Moldura Minuto
Partnership: FNAC
01.09.2025
Applications are now open for PRÉMIO NARRATIVA - FUJIFILM, a new award dedicated to contemporary photography in Portugal. This new award aims to promote photography by showcasing unpublished projects from authors at either an emerging or established stage in their careers
The application period closes on September 30th.
More information here.
19.08.2025
PODCAST NARRATIVA
S03#E08 A conversation with Cristina de Middel
On World Photography Day, NARRATIVA is releasing a special episode of its podcast, in which we speak with Cristina de Middel — photographer and president of Magnum Photos — about photography as a means of questioning the world, the role of artificial intelligence, the challenges Magnum faces today, the importance of preserving memory, and visual literacy as a pressing issue of our time.
Listen here.
01.08.2025
Applications are now open for the 7th edition of Masterclass NARRATIVA.
Since 2018, Masterclass NARRATIVA has provided a space in Portugal for the creation and development of photographic projects that explore contemporary themes with the time and reflection they deserve.
After six editions, Masterclass NARRATIVA has seen the work developed within its scope recognized more than 20 times – nationally and internationally – highlighting the artistic quality and relevance of the topics covered, while also contributing to the discovery of new names in Portuguese photography.
Masterclass NARRATIVA is aimed at those seeking to communicate through photographic narrative, regardless of their experience or professional field. It runs from October to February with weekly follow-up sessions.
The 7th edition of Masterclass NARRATIVA culminates in a group exhibition at NARRATIVA’s gallery in March 2026.
Masterclass NARRATIVAis taught by photographer and NARRATIVA director Mário Cruz, two-time winner of the World Press Photo and Portuguese Society of Authors Award.
24.07.2025
PODCAST NARRATIVA
S03#E07 SAKASA - A Dive into the Japanese Underworld
In this episode, you'll hear from French photographer Chloé Jafé about her exhibition SAKASA, on display at the NARRATIVA gallery until August 9th. Between 2013 and 2019, Jafé immersed herself in Japan to create a trilogy that invites us on an immersive and privileged journey into the intimate lives of women in the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, where love often intersects with violence (I Give You My Life); a diary about an impossible love story in Okinawa (Okinawa Mon Amour); and an in-depth look at the marginalized Nishinari neighborhood in Osaka and her encounter with Jiro (How I Met Jiro). This is the first time these three series have been presented together and also marks the photographer's debut in Portugal.
21.07.2025
PRÉMIO NARRATIVA - FUJIFILM
NARRATIVA and Fujifilm Portugal announce the launch of PRÉMIO NARRATIVA - FUJIFILM, a new award dedicated to contemporary photography in Portugal. This new award aims to recognize photography by showcasing original projects by established or emerging artists, residing in Portugal.
More information here.
19.07.2025
MARIA, by Maria Abranches, is part of the exhibitions at the Cortona On The Move 2025 festival after being awarded the main prize of this edition.
The work developed in the NARRATIVA Masterclass and awarded by World Press Photo is on display at Pallazo Baldelli until November 2nd.
15.07.2025
Chloé Jafé's SAKASA exhibition is featured in the weekly newspaper Expresso, in an article by journalist Mara Tribuna and with photography by Matilde Fieschi.
SAKASA has generated extraordinary interest and reveals a surprising journey through Japan. It will be on display at NARRATIVA’s gallery until August 9th.
The exhibition is free and open to the public Wednesday through Friday, from 2 pm to 7 pm, and Saturdays from 2 pm to 5 pm.
Support: Fujifilm Portugal
Support and printing: Moldura Minuto
Read here.
11.07.2025
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025
Just wrapped up our time at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025.
We’re getting back home with a lot of inspiration and full suitcases (mostly books).
Maria, by Maria Abranches – recently awarded by World Press Photo and developed at Masterclass NARRATIVA – was received with a lot of warmth, and we added some great finds to the NARRATIVA library.
Thanks to everyone who connected with us, we’re excited about future collaborations.
07.07.2025
RTP visited NARRATIVA and spoke with photographer Chloé Jafé about the artist's first exhibition in Portugal.
SAKASA unveils a surprising photographic trilogy in Japan and is open from Wednesday to Friday, from 2 pm to 7 pm, and on Saturdays, from 2 pm to 5 pm.
The exhibition is open until August 9th.
Support: Fujifilm Portugal
Support and printing: Moldura Minuto
Program: Ensaio | RTP
Journalist: Diego Louçã Rodrigues
Photographer: Manuel dos Santos
06.07.2025
NARRATIVA | Les Rencontres d’Arles
We’ll be at Les Rencontres d’Arles looking for new work to show in our gallery and books to add to our library.
If you’re around and wanna say hi, just drop us a message — we’ll be there Tuesday & Wednesday.
See you soon!
03.07.2025
Visual Constructions at NARRATIVA
Students at Teixeira de Pascoais Elementary School developed visual constructions based on the work of various authors present in the NARRATIVA library, using printed photographs, collages, and writing.
Throughout the school year, NARRATIVA has developed photography activities aimed at promoting visual literacy and introducing expression and communication through photography from the first grade onward.
This school year concluded with this visit to NARRATIVA for direct contact with the subject matter of the photography book.
23.06.2025
SAKASA exhibition opening , by Chloé Jafé
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of Chloé Jafé's first exhibition in Portugal.
SAKASA is presented as an extension of the trilogy published by the author, revealing her own authorial brand, but which takes on different perspectives as she travels throughout Japan.
The author donated the complete trilogy of books, sold out in bookstores, to our library, especially enriching our selection of books available for consultation.
The exhibition will be on display at the NARRATIVA gallery until August 9.
Admission is free, as always.
23.06.2025
PODCAST NARRATIVA
S03#E06 XYZ Books - Photography in book form
In this episode, you will hear from Tiago Casanova, photographer, editor and founder of the publishing house XYZ Books.
Founded in 2013, XYZ is today one of the most dynamic voices in independent photography publishing in Portugal. In addition to publishing photography books — designed in-house from the editing to the finishing —, the house operates in a hybrid structure that combines a specialized bookstore, a printing laboratory, organizes workshops, exhibitions and presentations and has a residency program entirely dedicated to photography books.
Some of the books published by this Portuguese publisher are available for consultation in NARRATIVA’s library.
22.06.2025
Journalist Rute Barbedo writes about the new NARRATIVA exhibition.
“Chloé Jafé’s marginal years in Japan arrive in Lisbon in photographs. She accompanied the wives of members of the Yakuza mafia, the forgotten people of Okinawa and the fallen of Osaka. The French photographer’s trilogy can be seen for the first time in Portugal, at NARRATIVA.”
The SAKASA exhibition opens next Friday, June 27, at 7pm.
Full article here.
19.06.2025
NARRATIVA Masterclass 2025/2026
Since 2018, the NARRATIVA Masterclass has provided a space in Portugal for the creation and development of photography projects that explore contemporary themes with the time and reflection that is due to them.
After six editions, the NARRATIVA Masterclass has seen the works developed within its scope distinguished more than 20 times – nationally and internationally –, highlighting the artistic quality and relevance of the themes addressed, while at the same time contributing to the revelation of new names in Portuguese photography.
The Masterclass is at the root of what NARRATIVA is today: a photography center recognized for its independence, plural programming, and free access to its resources.
The NARRATIVA Masterclass is aimed at those who seek to communicate through photographic narrative, regardless of their experience or the area to which they are professionally dedicated, and takes place from October to February with weekly follow-up sessions.
The 7th edition of the NARRATIVA Masterclass will culminate in a group exhibition at the NARRATIVA gallery in March 2026.
The NARRATIVA Masterclass is taught by photographer and director of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz, two-time winner of the World Press Photo and Portuguese Society of Authors Award.
Registration opens on August 1st.
Check out all the information about the next edition of the NARRATIVA Masterclass here.
11.06.2025
NARRATIVA 2025 Festival
Thank you to everyone who gathered at NARRATIVA this Wednesday to celebrate the second edition of our popular saints festival. It was great to bring together residents of the Estacas neighborhood and our audience.
There will be more next year.
09.06.2025
NARRATIVA at Fujifilm X/GFX Tour 2025 - Coimbra
As part of the Fujifilm X/GFX Tour 2025 initiative, which aims to promote a day dedicated to photography in different district capitals in Portugal, NARRATIVA has developed lectures, a workshop, a pop-up library and portfolio reviews.
The next stop is in Bragança on July 5th.
07.06.2025
The main prize of the 2025 FNAC New Talent Awards in the Photography category was awarded to João Baptista for his series Saison Floue, an immersion into a recurring phenomenon at the end of summer: the seasonal migration of people of different nationalities, origins and lifestyles to French vineyards. This photography project was born from direct immersion in this context of physical labor, exposed to the elements, lived in tents, vans, squats, and occasionally in different shared houses provided by employers.
António Saldanha, author selected for the 6th edition of the NARRATIVA Masterclass, was awarded an honorable mention for his project Quanto Pesa um Segundo?, a photographic essay about a society in burnout in which the author reflects on how we accelerate time to such an extent that we force ourselves to consume and process experiences at great speed, making everything superficial – creating friction that ends up wearing us down, making us incapable of disconnecting from this circuit because we are afraid of missing something that might pass us by.
The second honorable mention was awarded to Vasco Rafael Carvalho for his project Elves Raven Thousand Sausages, a visual exploration of life in the depths of the Icelandic Westfjords (Talknafjordur) where solitude, work and the silent presence of nature intertwine. Using a thermal camera that prints on receipt paper, the project transforms everyday moments into a fragile and improvised archive, with a tendency to disappear.
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NARRATIVA & NTF Partnership
NARRATIVA has renewed its partnership with the FNAC New Talents Award, and will host the exhibition of the winning work in addition to organizing a public presentation with all the distinguished artists.
Thus, the exhibition Saison Floue, by João Baptista, will be on display at NARRATIVA’s gallery from September and all the works will be presented after the exhibition's opening.
The partnership reaffirms NARRATIVA as a home for new names in Portuguese photography, combining an open and plural vision with recognized and emerging artists in its programming.
07.06.2025
For the 4th consecutive year, NARRATIVA Masterclass has seen a project developed during its training distinguished at the FNAC New Talents Award - the award that annually recognizes emerging Portuguese photography artists.
António Saldanha, author selected for the 6th edition of the NARRATIVA Masterclass, was distinguished with an honorable mention for his project Quanto Pesa um Segundo?, a photographic essay about a society in burnout in which the author reflects on how we accelerate time to such an extent that we force ourselves to consume and process experiences at great speed, making everything superficial - creating friction that ends up wearing us down, making us incapable of disconnecting from this circuit because we are afraid of missing something that might pass us by.
Congratulations, António.
04.06.2025
NARRATIVA mourns the death of Eduardo Gageiro.
His work is a historical record of Portugal without parallel in national photography.
Eduardo Gageiro has always had a distinctive way of being that made his photography speak for itself, as only great photographers can do.
His dedication to documenting Portuguese democracy and the social issues that affect it was absolutely unique, and the exhibition he held last year - Factum - revealed precisely this result by clearly exposing the scope and dimension of his work.
It is also worth noting that Eduardo Gageiro has always been guided by a marked authorial style that is absolutely remarkable in photojournalism, above all because he managed to have his work recognized not only for what he photographed but also for the way he did it.
At this year's 25th of April parade, the NARRATIVA team came across Eduardo Gageiro and in a few words we thanked him once again for his work. He responded by asking where our cameras were, indicating the importance of being ready to document history.
Today, we have truly lost a major name in Portuguese photography and photojournalism.
Thank you, Eduardo Gageiro.
31.05.2025
World Children's Day
NARRATIVA, in partnership with INSTAX and the Renovar Mouraria Association, developed a workshop for World Children's Day, in which eight children photographed the Mouraria neighborhood, in an exercise of observation and celebration of multiculturalism in the city that is their home - Lisbon.
At the end, they constructed visual narratives through their photographs, drawings and collages.
27.05.2025
The book ROOF, by photographer Mário Cruz, was distinguished by the Clube da Criatividade de Portugal in the Editorial Design - Book category.
The distinction was announced at the 27th CCP Festival, which is part of the One Club for Creativity and awards the best design work.
The design of the book ROOF was done by Alex Paganelli, art director of UZINA and member of NARRATIVA.
Thank you, Alex, for your dedication in creating this book, which today is the home of a work that reveals those who fight for the right to housing but live homeless in Lisbon.
The book had the invaluable support of Fujifilm Portugal and the M2 printing company.
25.05.2025
Fujifilm Workshop: Portrait
NARRATIVA, in partnership with Fujifilm Portugal, developed a workshop dedicated to portraiture, in which technical and authorial skills were developed. The workshop was led by photographer and director Arlindo Camacho.
22.05.2025
The exhibition And They Laughed At Me, by Newsha Tavakolian, is featured today in the printed edition of Público newspaper, in an article written by journalist Ana Marques Maia.
And They Laughed At Me, an exhibition that reveals Newsha Tavakolian's photographic journey and authorial search, is on display at NARRATIVA’s gallery until June 14th and can be visited from Wednesday to Friday, from 2pm to 7pm, and on Saturdays from 2pm to 5pm.
Free entry.
22.05.2025
Conversation: Photojournalism in the Legislative Elections
NARRATIVA welcomed photojournalists João Porfirio and José Sena Goulão for a conversation about the work they carried out in the recent campaign for the Portuguese Legislative Elections.
The session went on beyond the scheduled time, a clear sign of the public's interest in the topic discussed.
The conversation allowed, not only, an understanding of the authors' work process and what an electoral campaign is, but also a critical analysis of photojournalism in Portugal.
Thank you all for coming.
Thank you, João and José, for sharing.
21.05.2025
Today we received a visit from photographer and president of Magnum Photos, Cristina de Middel.
It was an opportunity to showcase the work that has been carried out by NARRATIVA and to visit the exhibition And They Laughed At Me, by Newsha Tavakolian.
Cristina de Middel's books The Afronauts and Journey To The Center are available for consultation in our library.
18.05.2025
Fujifilm Workshop: Introduction to Visual Narratives
NARRATIVA, in partnership with Fujifilm Portugal, developed a workshop dedicated to the construction of visual narratives, aimed at those who have basic knowledge of photography and for former participants of the introductory workshop who wish to acquire new knowledge in the area of constructing photographic projects.
The workshop was taught by X-Photographer and director of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz, and was based on his personal projects.
Topics covered in the workshop:
Choosing the project;
Research and investigation;
Connection with the theme;
Image selection and sequencing;
Dissemination of the work.
13.05.2025
RTP spoke with Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian, a member of Magnum agency, about the exhibition And They Laughed At Me that opened the CICLO NARRATIVA 2025. The work is built in two stages: the author revisits her photographic archive, recovering technically imperfect images from her early years as a photographer, and crosses it with a new body of intimate and creative work about a society that fights for freedom and change.
The exhibition will be on display until June 14th and admission is free.
Support: Fujifilm
Support and printing: Minuto Frame
Partner: Magnum Photos
Essay Program | RTP
Journalist: Joana Rodrigues Stumpo
Image reporter: Rui Alves Cardoso
10.05.2025
NARRATIVA’s library has reached the milestone of 450 books.
With free and open access, the library is now a reference for students, teachers and researchers, as well as a focus of interest for the thousands of visitors we have received since we opened our doors in 2022.
NARRATIVA’s library has been built through regular investment but also with the contribution of several authors and publishers, whom we thank for helping to create a public good.
It is equally important for us to see works with the NARRATIVA’s mark among so many others that inspire us recurrently.
NARRATIVA’s library is available for consultation from Wednesday to Friday, from 2 pm to 7 pm, and on Saturdays, from 2 pm to 5 pm.
02.05.2025
The exhibition And They Laughed At Me, by Newsha Tavakolian, is featured today in the printed edition of the weekly Expresso, in an article written by journalist Mara Tribuna and photography by Tiago Miranda.
The exhibition that opened the CICLO NARRATIVA 2025 will be on display at the NARRATIVA gallery until June 14th and can be visited from Wednesday to Friday, from 2pm to 7pm, and on Saturdays from 2pm to 5pm.
27.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
The publisher GOST Books donated 12 works to NARRATIVA’s library, after participating in CICLO 2025.
This is not the first time that this independent photography and visual arts publisher based in London, UK, has contributed significantly to one of the most sought-after resources by our visitors – especially photography students – in our space: the free library.
Thank you, Ana and Stuart, for your generosity. We thank you, once again, for your participation in the 4th edition of the CICLO NARRATIVA.
Donated books:
The Cloud Factory | Chris Donovan
Knee High Socks | Mark Cohen
British Seaweed Photographs: Cyanotype Imperfections | Mandy Barker
The Makeshift City | Joshua Dudley Greer
Escape | Lydia Goldblatt
Life, Death and Everything in Between | Don McCullin
Say Less | Greg Gulbransen
American Spine | Richard Sharum
Some worlds have two suns | Andrew McConnell
Chernobyl | Pierpaolo Mittica
Faultlines | John Volynchook
Route of the Belle Etoile | Daniel Stephen Homer
27.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
Fujifilm Portugal, a patron of NARRATIVA since day one, was once again present at the CICLO NARRATIVA, generating notable interest in the new X/GFX equipment.
Starting next week, NARRATIVA will have Fujifilm equipment permanently available for the development of its workshops and also to give visitors the opportunity to get in touch with the different equipment on offer.
Some of the work on display at the gallery - And They Laughed At Me by Newsha Tavakolian - was precisely photographed with the GFX system.
27.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
Launch of the book Maria by Maria Abranches
The 4th edition of the CICLO NARRATIVA ended with more than 160 people present in our gallery for the presentation of the book Maria, by Maria Abranches.
This work was developed at NARRATIVA Masterclass in 2024 and awarded this year at the World Press Photo in the Stories: Europe category. An achievement that makes us very proud and that confirms the belief that NARRATIVA is playing a differentiating role in introducing new names in Portuguese photography, such as Maria Abranches.
Maria Abranches' presentation was attended by Ana Maria, the protagonist of the story, and was a moment of tremendous sharing on a pressing topic in Portuguese society – the hidden impacts of colonialism – addressed, developed and explored with the necessary depth.
Thank you all for your presence and interest in learning about NARRATIVA’s work over these three days.
Thank you, Maria, for such a moving and honest sharing.
27.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
Emerging Artists Open Call
The last day of CICLO was also marked by the presentation of the works selected for the 2025 Emerging Artists Open Call.
The projects by Fernando Pimenta, Joe Wood and João Ramilo were chosen from more than 52 applications, demonstrating the high quality of artistic and photographic production currently being developed in Portugal.
The quality of the work presented in the second edition of the Open Call confirms that the commitment to publicizing the work of emerging photographers established in Portugal is what most contributes to the appreciation and democratization of photography – one of our pillars.
Photography: João Ramilo
27.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
Presentation of the book Believe by David Infante
In an afternoon dedicated exclusively to Portuguese photography, the presentation of Believe, the new book by David Infante, published by XYZ, demonstrated that the universe of Portuguese photography is in good health and that there are artists and publishers who decide to take the risk of putting into book form a body of work that explores the ways in which we represent ourselves and how we relate to the places that later become places of belonging.
Believe is a photographic monograph that brings together the artist's personal archive into a new series of visual abstractions that are at the same time cosmic and haunting.
Alongside the presentation of David Infante's book in Lisbon, it is possible to visit until October the author's homonymous exhibition at the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, in Évora.
27.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
Masterclass by Newsha Tavakolian
CICLO’s last day began with a masterclass where Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian, from Magnum Photos, discussed her work process, based on observing the participants' work.
26.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
Talk by Newsha Tavakolian
The first day of the CICLO ended with the long-awaited talk with this year’s guest author, the Iranian photographer from Magnum Agency, Newsha Tavakolian. The author received a standing ovation for her unique trajectory and for the way she uses photography as a form of alert and awareness.
26.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
Presentation of the book Romanzo Meticcio by Davide Degano
CICLO’s second day afternoon continued with the presentation of the book Romanzo Meticcio by Davide Degano, a work in which the author explores contemporary Italian identity, challenging traditional narratives and discovering hidden stories. The presentation was marked by a deep reflection on Italian multiculturalism and the author's research process.
26.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
GOST Books
The afternoon of the second day of CICLO began with the guest publisher of 2025: GOST Books.
Stuart Smith, director and co-founder of GOST Books, a London-based independent publisher specializing in visual arts and photography, shared his journey around the creation of the photography book in an extraordinary way. A trajectory marked by collaboration with some of the biggest names in contemporary photography, in a presentation that clearly demonstrated the power and opportunity that exists in the book format when it comes to visual narratives.
In addition to Stuart Smith's presentation, GOST books participates in CICLO with a pop-up bookstore on the 1st floor of NARRATIVA.
26.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
Portfolio reviews
The second day of CICLO started with portfolio reviews by Newsha Tavakolian, CICLO's guest author, Stuart Smith, founder of GOST Books, this year's guest editor, and Mário Cruz, director of NARRATIVA.
The quality of the work presented by the participants was one of the points highlighted by those who analyzed the various works.
25.04.2025
CICLO NARRATIVA 2025
The start of the new edition of CICLO NARRATIVA with the opening of the exhibition And They Laughed At Me, by Newsha Tavakolian.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the celebration of NARRATIVA's anniversary and for the opening of an exhibition that addresses the construction of visual narrative, the authorial process and the ability to communicate through photography.
And They Laughed At Me is on display at the NARRATIVA gallery on a day that celebrates freedom, translating into an exhibition that reflects on unfulfilled rights and freedoms.
It was good to see the gallery full of people and carnations.
23.04.2025
On World Book Day, we share the new episode of NARRATIVA Podcast about the launch of the book Maria, by Maria Abranches, which closes CICLO NARRATIVA on April 27th, at 7 pm.
The work recently awarded by World Press Photo was developed in the NARRATIVA Masterclass and tells a story common to countless women, whose silent contribution builds, shapes and sustains the world as we know it.
To listen here.
10.04.2025
Conversation with Rui Costa
The winner of the FNAC New Talents award, Rui Costa, presents his book Uma Azeitona Bordada em Azul in a conversation open to the public.
The session takes place at the FNAC Forum at the Colombo Shopping Center. The session also features the presence of photographer and director of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz.
The work was developed in the NARRATIVA Masterclass and the production of the book was carried out by NARRATIVA.
06.04.2025
Fujifilm Workshop: RAW Edition
NARRATIVA and Fujifilm developed a RAW file editing workshop. The workshop was taught by Ricardo Dias, professor at CENJOR, and was aimed at those who want to acquire basic and intermediate knowledge of image processing in RAW format using software such as Adobe Bridge, Adobe Camera RAW or Adobe Lightroom.
The workshop is free and limited to 10 participants.
01.04.2025
Oriental project, by Cláudio Fernandes, developed in the Masterclass NARRATIVA 24/25, is featured in the newspaper Público - P3.
Oriental distances itself from a stereotypical Lisbon and travels through a territory that does not follow the changes that socially and culturally characterize the Portuguese capital. Lisbon is today divided between a vibrant city and a forgotten city. This forgetfulness translates into the remains of what the territory was and is no longer, but above all, of what it never became.
27.03.2025
Emerging Talents Open Call Winners 2025
NARRATIVA received 52 entries for the 2025’s Open Call.
In this second edition, the high quality of the submitted works was evident, demonstrating that there are emerging national and international photographers developing relevant work.
The winners of this edition are:
- Fernando Pimenta
- Joe Wood
- João Ramilo
The presentation of the projects is scheduled for April 27th, at 5 pm, at NARRATIVA.
We would like to thank everyone who submitted their work and invite you to join us in 2025 CICLO.
Photography: Fernando Pimenta
27.03.2025
Maria Abranches is one of the winners of World Press Photo 2025 with Maria project, developed in the NARRATIVA Masterclass.
Maria, who has already been distinguished at the FNAC New Talent Awards and Cortona On The Move, tells a story common to countless women, whose silent contribution has built, shaped and sustained the world as we know it.
“Ana Maria was born in Angola, was brought to Portugal at the age of nine and, in her words, spent her entire life cleaning,” says Maria Abranches.
This is a special distinction, as it is the first time that a work developed in the NARRATIVA Masterclass has been highlighted in the biggest photojournalism and documentary photography award in the world.
We celebrate this achievement with the launch of the book of the same name, which presents the full scope of the work at the last event of the CICLO NARRATIVA 2025, on April 27th, at 7 pm.
26.03.2025
PODCAST NARRATIVA
S03#E03 Masterclass NARRATIVA 24/25 (2nd part)
In this episode you will hear from three of the six authors of the 6th edition of Masterclass NARRATIVA - António Saldanha, Cláudio Fernandes and João Cruz.
Since 2018, Masterclass NARRATIVA has provided a space for the creation of photographic projects that explore contemporary themes with the time and reflection that is due to them.
In the 6th edition, works were developed that explore themes such as mental health, memory, isolation, urbanism, eco-preservation and family relationships.
The collective exhibition opens to the public on March 8th, from 4pm, and will be on display at NARRATIVA’s gallery until April 12th.
25.03.2025
Sal project, by Filipa Fernandes, developed in the Masterclass NARRATIVA 24/25, is featured in the newspaper Público - P3.
The Sado estuary was the largest producer of salt in the Portuguese kingdom in the 17th century. From the 1980s onwards, the production of traditional salt in Setúbal began to decline, ceasing activity in the 2000s.
The places, where the hustle and bustle of the hundreds of people who worked in salt production, dictated the landscape and the territory are now occupied by other activities or abandoned.
Based on a personal perspective marked by a childhood spent in these places, Sal focuses on the disappearance of traditional salt production in Setúbal and reflects on the activities that took place in its place and the ecological balance of that territory.
22.03.2025
Conversation: Women in Portuguese Photography
NARRATIVA and Fujifilm Portugal promote a conversation around the history of women as authors in the field of Portuguese photography.
Participants:
- Lara Jacinto - Photographer;
- Patricia de Melo Moreira - Photojournalist;
- Sandra Vieira Jürgens - Curator of the State Contemporary Art Collection and historian;
- Susana Lourenço Marques - Researcher, teacher and co-founder of the publishing house Pierrot le Fou.
Moderation:
- Bárbara Monteiro - Photographer and member of NARRATIVA.
Photography: Patricia de Melo Moreira
20.03.2025
Opening of the exhibition Despojos de Guerra at the Ermesinde Cultural Forum
After having passed through the Portuguese Center of Photography, in Porto, the exhibition Despojos de Guerra now arrives at the Ermesinde Cultural Forum, in the Municipality of Valongo where some of the veterans of the Colonial War who are part of the project of photojournalist Leonel de Castro live.
Despojos de Guerra is an essay and also a memorial collection, which focuses on the wounded veterans of the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974). The exhibition is the culmination of a long-term project that spans different territories documenting the past and present of Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Angola.
NARRATIVA is responsible for curating the exhibition of this work, which was awarded the Pictures Of The Year International prize.
15.03.2025
Fujifilm Workshop: Introduction to photography
Another photography initiation workshop, developed by NARRATIVA and Fujifilm, has ended, in which photographic technique, composition and authorial development were the subjects approached.
The workshop was taught by André Dias Nobre, with the support of José Fernandes and Rui Costa.
08.03.2025
The opening of the 24/25 Masterclass exhibition was a success.
Over the course of three hours, more than 200 people visited NARRATIVA and learned about the projects developed in the 6th edition of the masterclass, which is the genesis of our space.
The works reflect the authorial diversity of the participants and explore themes such as mental health, memory, isolation, urbanism, eco-preservation and family relationships.
Every year, the Masterclass collective exhibition marks our program in a unique way: it is the culmination of five months of intense work and an exhibition that gives a stage to new authors of Portuguese photography with the NARRATIVA brand.
Each edition is different but the objective is the same – to work on photography with time and thought.
The result of this edition will be on display in our gallery until April 12th, when there will be a conversation with the authors António Saldanha, Cláudia Florêncio, Cláudio Fernandes, Filipa Fernandes, João Cruz and Nuno Silva.
Sponsor: Fujifilm
Sponsorship and production: Moldura Minuto
01.03.2025
Photography workshop in Casal da Boba
Photography as a form of collective memory
NARRATIVA and Fujifilm Portugal developed a photography workshop with young residents of Casal da Boba neighborhood, in Amadora, with the aim of building a visual narrative that reflected their vision of the territory they inhabit.
The achieved result allowed us to create a historical visual memory of this territory on the outskirts of Lisbon, something possible thanks to the invaluable help of Cavaleiros de São Brás Association, whom we thank for welcoming and supporting us.
More information here.
26.02.2025
PODCAST NARRATIVA
S03#E02 Masterclass NARRATIVA 24/25 (1st part)
In this episode you will hear from three of the six authors of the 6th edition of Masterclass NARRATIVA - Cláudia Florêncio, Filipa Fernandes and Nuno Silva.
Since 2018, Masterclass NARRATIVA has provided a space for the creation of photographic projects that explore contemporary themes with the time and reflection that is due to them.
In the 6th edition, works were developed that explore themes such as mental health, memory, isolation, urbanism, eco-preservation and family relationships. The collective exhibition opens to the public on March 8th, from 4pm, and will be on display at NARRATIVA’s gallery until April 12th.
20.02.2025
NARRATIVA EMERGING TALENTS OPEN CALL
In the 4th edition of CICLO, NARRATIVA wants to showcase new emerging authors and contribute to the visibility of their photographic projects. On April 27th, three authors have the opportunity to present their projects within the scope of NARRATIVA’s CICLO. This Open Call accepts applications on a wide range of topics and prioritizes well-structured projects.
More information here.
15.02.2025
The winners of the 2024 Photography and Territory Open Call, Elisa Freitas and Emanuel Constantino, present their projects of do Mar and (...) se elas houverem, a gente vai tirá-las, distinguished by the Tomar’s Center for Studies in Photography.
Elisa Freitas, developed her project in the Masterclass NARRATIVA, explored the significant transformations that São Bartolomeu do Mar, a small community in the Minho coast, faces due to coastal erosion.
Emanuel Constantino reflects on the pollution of the Ave and Vizela rivers and the imbalance of local fauna and flora. Aquatic species have disappeared or migrated, fueling rumors about the existence of an exotic species in the rivers that explains this abrupt disappearance.
09.02.2025
The 6th edition of Masterclass NARRATIVA has ended.
The working group met weekly from October 2024 to February 2025, developing six different projects in different territories of the country.
Since 2018, the Masterclass, led by photographer and director of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz, has provided a space for creating photographic projects that explore contemporary themes with the time and reflection they deserve.
The 24/25 Masterclass NARRATIVA culminates in a collective exhibition that opens to the public on March 8, presenting the works of António Saldanha, Cláudia Florêncio, Cláudio Fernandes, Filipa Fernandes, João Cruz and Nuno Silva.
08.02.2025
Conversation with Augusto Brázio
Photographer Augusto Brázio gives a guided tour of Viagens na Minha Terra exhibition, in which he discusses his work process.
The exhibition opened NARRATIVA's program in 2025 and condenses, for the first time, Augusto Brázio's travels through Portuguese territory, revealing his distinct authorial vision of a diverse country.
25.01.2025
The RETROSPECTIVA Masterclass NARRATIVA 2018-2024 exhibition ends with a conversation.
Photographer and director of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz, talks to Ricardo Lopes, João Silva, Alex Paganelli, Filipa Leite Rosa, Igor Martins, Rui Costa, Maria Abranches, Rafaela Araújo and Elisa Freitas, authors who participated in previous editions of the masterclass, about the projects developed during this training.
23.01.2025
Presentation of the book Moraesu St., by José Bértolo
Moraesu is a street in Tokushima where the Portuguese writer Wenceslau de Moraes (1854-1929) spent the last sixteen years of his life. Japan was a place of fascination and refuge for Moraes. Moraesu St. is a response by José Bértolo to the questioning of these spectral transits.
This book was born from a visit to Japan — Tokushima, but also Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto or Nara —, during which the photographer followed the same path as Moraes, producing a reflection on photography as the "language of the dead", as Moraes wrote.
The presentation will be attended by the author and will be led by photographers and curators Pedro Alfacinha and João Miguel Barros.
16.01.2025
The exhibition Viagens na Minha Terra, by Augusto Brázio, is featured today in the Ípsilon section of Público newspaper, in an article written by journalist Ana Marques Maia.
Read here.
11.01.2025
Opening of the exhibition Viagens na Minha Terra, by Augusto Brázio
In Viagens na Minha Terra, Augusto Brázio evokes the seminal work of the same name by Almeida Garrett as a starting point for an in-depth photographic exploration of the interior of Portugal.
NARRATIVA brings together, for the first time in an exhibition, the essays published by Augusto Brázio – SOR (Ponto de Sor), Debaixo da pele (Águeda) and Rasgo (Covilhã) – which make up this body of work in development.
The exhibition that opens another year of NARRATIVA's program will be on display in our gallery until February 22nd.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this inauguration.
Support: Fujifilm
Support and printing: Moldura Minuto
22.12.2024
A review of the past year.
We entered January with three exhibitions in three different locations:
- 50 years 50 Portraits, Almada
- Portugal Livre 1974-2024, Restauradores, Lisboa
- Jamaika, by José Sarmento Matos, NARRATIVA
This was followed by NARRATIVA’s 23/24 Masterclass exhibition, once again achieving national and international distinctions.
CICLO 2024, NARRATIVA's annual event, was marked by Terra Vermelha, an impactful exhibition by Tommaso Protti and the presence of Blow Up Press publisher.
In April, we also opened two exhibitions that focused on the marks of the Colonial War and what remained to be done after the 25th of April:
- Despojos de Guerra, by Leonel de Castro.
- ROOF, by Mário Cruz.
From June to October, we once again established ourselves as a home for emerging names in photography.
- New Talents Exhibition FNAC 2024, Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme, by Joana Dionísio.
- Exhibition Sıhhatler Olsun, by Asli Ozcelik.
We ended the year in the same way we started, with three simultaneous exhibitions:
- Nothing personal, by Nikita Teryoshin.
- RETROSPECTIVA – NARRATIVA Masterclass 2018-2024
- Pop-Up NARRATIVA
In addition, this year we developed 12 free workshops, 14 conversations, 10 book presentations and 8 out-of-home events.
It is important to highlight that during this program we created projects in partnership with Escola Básica Teixeira de Pascoais and Residência Santa Joana Princesa.
Added to this important dimension of social work is the investment we made in our library and the fact that we participated in the production of four books.
- Jamaika, José Sarmento Matos
- Uma azeitona bordada em azul, Rui Costa
- Despojos de Guerra Leonel de Castro
- ROOF, Mário Cruz
All these results were only possible due to the support of our patrons - Fujifilm Portugal and Moldura Minuto.
Finally, the Círculo NARRATIVA is made up of 48 people who contribute to our programming. If you're not already a part, consider supporting us.
We say goodbye with wishes for happy holidays and a good 2025. We return on January 11th with a new exhibition.
21.12.2024
Finissage Nothing Personal, by Nikita Teryoshin
On the last day of the exhibition Nothing Personal, by Nikita Teryoshin, NARRATIVA promotes a meeting between the public and its team.
At 3:30 pm there will be a porto of honor to celebrate the end of another year of programming.
20.12.2024
RESIDENTE | NARRATIVA
What happens when we bring the act of photographing our surroundings into our routine for the first time?
NARRATIVA, in partnership with Residência Santa Joana Princesa, developed a project in which it was proposed to six of its residents that they photograph their daily lives over the course of a month, with the assistance of photographer and director of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz.
For NARRATIVA, the mission of democratizing photography in Portugal is only put into practice with socially responsible initiatives like this one: for some users it was their first contact with photography and the creation of visual narratives; for others it was a reunion with an environment they didn't expect to have at their current stage of life.
NARRATIVA chose to present the work developed in the format of a newspaper that condenses six distinct visions, acting as an object that contributes to the preservation of the physical and identity memory of a place that is also home to many others.
About the authors:
Eron Conde Vitória, 60 years old, car painter;
Graciela Nogueira, 80 years old, civil servant;
João Pedro Duarte Graça Almeida, 60 years old, clerk at an insurance company;
Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves dos Reis, 66 years old, gas station attendant;
Maria Helena Pessoa, 82 years old , social worker;
Victor Godefroy, 92, business manager.
The project was developed with the support of Instax.
19.12.2024
NARRATIVA | Books of the year
In 2024, we decided to invest significantly in our library to meet the growing demand from those who visit us.
Looking back, this year we further deepened our connection with international publishers such as Blow Up Press, which we welcomed in CICLO NARRATIVA 2024, or Gost Books, whose exhibition in our gallery – Nothing Personal, by Nikita Teryoshin – is part of the book of the same name published by this UK-based publisher.
In addition to the attention given to new products launched throughout 2024, we continue to invest in the acquisition of books that are not new to the publishing market and that allow us, with each passing year, to offer a richer and more plural library.
To celebrate the photography book as an object of interest, and following the tradition of sharing what we appreciated the most during the year, we have created two lists of our favorite books: one referring to works released in 2024 and the other with five references – some considered rare – that we managed to secure for our library.
Top 10 | Books published in 2024:
Bryan Schumatt - Sons of the living, Trespasser
Gregory Halpern - King, Queen, Knave, Mack
Rahim Fortune - Hardtack, Loose Joints
Vic Bakin - Epitome, Void
Carolyn Drake & Andres Gonzalez - I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours, Mack
Nikita Teryoshin - Nothing Personal, Gost
Adam Ferguson - Big Sky, Gost
Larry Towell - The History War, Gost
OMEN - Phantasmagoria At The Farm Security Administration Archive 1935-1942, Editorial RM
Lars Tunbjörk - Office | LA Office, Loose Joints
Top 5 | Books previously published and added to the library in 2024:
Adam Rhiannon - Big Fence, Blow Up Press
Boris Mikhailov - From “blaue horse” till now days Mörel/MEP
Tomasz Laczny - Erna, Helena, Ania, Blow Up Press
Michael S. Honegger - The Need To Know, Blow Up Press
Gregory Halpern - Omaha Sketchbook, Mack
14.12.2024
NARRATIVA participates in the special session of the documentary I AM NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE (2024), directed by Klára Tasovská, based on the life and work of photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková.
The session is followed by a conversation moderated by Inês Ventura, member of NARRATIVA, at Cinema Fernando Lopes, in Lisbon.
About the documentary:
I AM NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE is a moving film with a unique look that traverses European history in the second half of the 20th century, always focused on the daily struggles of a woman ahead of her time.
Using Libuše's vast collection of photographs, the narrative constructs a moving visual diary, narrated by the artist herself in a sincere and emotional voice-over.
Libuše faces herself and the world with a disarming frankness, transforming her art into a tool of self-knowledge and resistance to the conservative and patriarchal society of the time.
I AM NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE had its world premiere at the last edition of the Berlin Festival. Present in more than five dozen festivals, this film was awarded at festivals such as Las Palmas de Gran Canaria IFF - Official Competition, CIMA Award or NewFest – New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival - Special Jury Mention.
12.12.2024
NARRATIVA, at the invitation of Casa Independente, participates in a conversation about the work it has developed in recent years. The invitation comes as part of the 12th anniversary of Casa Independente and its desire to share the trajectory of current members of NARRATIVA, Filipa Leite Rosa, Guillermo Vidal and Inês Ventura, who previously participated in Casa's cultural initiatives, such as Narrativas Fotográficas do Intendente workshop, by Pauliana Valente Pimentel.
Mário Cruz, director and founder of NARRATIVA, presents the project and the work developed by NARRATIVA.
Filipa Leite Rosa and Guillermo Vidal present the work developed in the NARRATIVA Masterclass, Póvoa e Meadas and Under the Bridge, respectively.
Inês Ventura presents the short film CONTRA A MARÉ, developed in Guinea-Bissau, followed by its screening and an audience question session.
05.12.2024
NARRATIVA had a completely full house for the presentation of the work of French photojournalist Eric Bouvet.
After his visit to Aveiro, where he participated in the Exodus Aveiro Fest, Eric showed his work in Lisbon and the reaction of those who attended his presentation confirms that he is a great name in the world of photography with a touching vision and thought about what photography is.
It was a truly remarkable session for NARRATIVA, provided by Fujifilm Portugal.
30.11.2024
Podcast NARRATIVA
S02#E08 Nothing Personal - The back office of war
In this episode you hear from Russian photographer Nikita Teryoshin about Nothing Personal, a project that shows the behind the scenes of war, a complete antithesis of what a battlefield is: a huge amusement park for adults in which there is wine, snacks and shiny weapons. Plastic mannequins are corpses and the war action is staged in an artificial environment in front of ministers, heads of state, generals and businessmen. At a time of conflicts and geopolitical tensions in various parts of the globe, Teryoshin's work becomes even more valuable, as it allows us to understand a small part of what is behind an industry that aims to create the most effective tools to take human lives. The exhibition is on display at the NARRATIVA’s gallery until December 21st.
27.11.2024
Masterclass NARRATIVA | Elisa Freitas | Photography and Territory 2024 Winner.
Do Mar, a project developed in the Masterclass NARRATIVA 23/24, has just won the Open CallPhotography and Territory 2024, promoted by the Center for Studies in Photography in Tomar. The work will be exhibited at Casa dos Cubos, between January and March 2025.
Do Mar, by Elisa Freitas, delves into the significant transformations that São Bartolomeu do Mar, a small community on the Minho coast of Portugal, faces due to coastal erosion. The project moves away from the annual pilgrimage, by which land is sought, and focuses on the physical evolution of the landscape, marked by the disappearance of the beach, but also by the social changes that shaped the community over time in the wake of this climatic event.
24.11.2024
House of Photography | NARRATIVA Pop-Up Exhibition
There were two days of open doors at the former North Military Maintenance, in Beato, to show what could become the future Bairro do Grilo: the largest cultural complex in Lisbon, where NARRATIVA designs a plural and aggregating House of Photography.
This pioneering project, designed by the Working Group for World Youth Day, which took place in 2023, is of extreme importance for a city like Lisbon, as it allows to concentrate in one place a cultural offer that includes photography, illustration, music, dance, theater and other artistic and cultural expressions, while also contemplating the creation of affordable housing and infrastructure designed for the citizens of Lisbon.
More than a central hub for photography in Portugal, House of Photography, located in Bairro do Grilo, can channel synergies to collaborate with all projects that find a home in this area of Lisbon with immense potential.
NARRATIVA developed a pop-up exhibition for 48 hours, based on its collection, which sought to reflect, in three rooms of this industrial complex, the work it has developed over the last two years, showcasing emerging national authors and making accessible to the Portuguese public the work of award-winning international photographers for free.
NARRATIVA is a photography center open to the community, which maintains free access to its cultural offerings thanks to the support of two patrons – Fujifilm Portugal and Moldura Minuto.
Thank you to the hundreds of people who, for 48 hours, went to Beato to learn about the plan for House of Photography and Bairro do Grilo.
For now, it is up to us not to let what could become an emblematic and differentiating place for Portuguese culture fall into oblivion.
16.11.2024
RETROSPECTIVA NARRATIVA Masterclass 2018-2024
Opening of the exhibition that brings together the work developed since 2018 in the NARRATIVA Masterclass.
The exhibition puts authors from different editions in dialogue and celebrates authorial diversity while affirming NARRATIVA Masterclass as a space for photography with time and thought.
NARRATIVA would like to thank everyone who joined in this inauguration and Barreiro City Council for the irrefutable invitation to bring together for the first time the 29 authors who are now synonymous with a new generation of Portuguese photography.
The exhibition has free entry and runs until January 26th, at the Augusto Cabrita Auditorium, in Barreiro.
02.11.2024
Opening of the exhibition Nothing Personal by Nikita Teryoshin. The exhibition is on display at NARRATIVA to immerse us behind the scenes of the arms industry.
In times when global conflicts dominate headlines and front pages of newspapers, this exposure becomes more urgent and necessary than ever.
A work recognized by World Press Photo and PHotoEspaña that can now be seen for free in Portugal for the first time.
The last exhibition of the year at the NARRATIVA gallery runs until December 21st.
27.10.2024
Premiere of the documentary CONTRA A MARÉ
The premiere of the documentary CONTRA A MARÉ had a full house at Fernando Lopes cinema. The screening was followed by a conversation and Q&A.
CONTRA A MARÉ is a short documentary film that follows the daily lives of people who were born, live and dream in Guinea-Bissau. For Guinea-Bissau. A dream of hope and often postponed, a dream that carries with it its heavy colonial historical past, but which resists the destiny outlined by the West, breaking the idea of being a country eternally postponed.
24.10.2024
Presentation of the book Um Furacão Avança Alegremente by Pedro J. Márquez
Um Furacão Avança Alegremente presents itself as a self-portrait through the architecture of a neighborhood, a work that starts from a personal experience and takes place in Olaias, an architectural complex built in the 1980s in Lisbon.
Pedro J. Márquez suffered an accident during a storm in the Amazon jungle. After several operations, he returned to Lisbon, where he underwent daily rehabilitation over the course of a year in Olaias.
It was through this routine that he created a connection with the neighborhood, creating a visual analogy with that area of the Portuguese capital.
12.10.2024
Fujifilm Workshop: Introduction to photography
The 4th photography initiation workshop, developed by NARRATIVA and Fujifilm, has ended, in which photographic technique, composition and authorial development were the subjects approached.
The workshop was taught by André Dias Nobre, with the support of Bárbara Monteiro and Rui Costa.
Photographs of the final works:
Ricardo Pereira, Hugo Mamede, Raquel Rodrigues, Francisco Almeida, Bárbara Freitas, Lília Costa, Amadeu Resendes, Mara Tischler, Isabel Zilhão.
09.10.2024
Premiere | CONTRA A MARÉ | 27 October
“It is important to build societies that make sense for those who live in them. Against the tide, put to sea.” Felwine Sarr
CONTRA A MARÉ (against the tide) is a short documentary film that follows the daily lives of people who were born, live and dream in Guinea-Bissau. For Guinea-Bissau. A dream of hope and often postponed, a dream that carries with it its heavy colonial historical past, but which resists the destiny outlined by the West, breaking the idea of being a country eternally postponed.
The premiere of the documentary will take place on October 27th, at 7:30 pm, at Cinema Fernando Lopes, in Lisbon, and will be followed by a conversation and Q&A.
Free entry, limited to room capacity.
25.09.2024
Masterclass NARRATIVA 2024/2025
The authors selected for the Masterclass NARRATIVA 2024/2025 are:
- António Saldanha
- Cláudia Florêncio
- Cláudio Fernandes
- Filipa Fernandes
- João Cruz
- Nuno Silva
The 6th edition of the Narrativa Masterclass begins in October and the collective exhibition that will reveal the work developed is scheduled to open in March 2025.
We appreciate the high number of applications and note the quality of the proposed projects. For this reason, we encourage authors who did not make it into this edition to submit their entries again next year.
13.09.2024
Opening of the exhibition Sıhhalter Olsun (Good Luck), by Aslı Özçelik.
Sıhhalter Olsun tells the story of the author's mother, a young woman from a small village in northeastern Turkey, who emigrated to Germany at the age of 20. This work focuses, in particular, on their past, while also revealing a story common to other families, about the immigrant workers who made Germany one of the main economic and industrial engines of the European Union. Sıhhalter Olsun (Good Luck) resulted in a book that occupies a place of permanent interest for anyone who visits NARRATIVA and which is now the basis for this exhibition.
Patent until October 26th.
25.07.2024
Afonso Sereno and Maria Abranches, authors distinguished with honorable mentions in the 2024 New Talents FNAC award, presented their projects «To turn an hourglass opaque» and «Maria» in a joint session, open to the public. NARRATIVA maintains a relevant partnership with New Talents FNAC award and displays in its gallery the winning work in the photography category in 2024.
20.07.2024
Podcast NARRATIVA
S02#06 Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme – What is your colonial past?
In this episode you listen to visual artist Joana Dionísio talk about Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme, a work that won the 2024 New Talents FNAC award and which is on display at NARRATIVA until August 3rd.
Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme is a dive into the colonial past of the photographer's family, “reflecting a personal contemporary analysis of this legacy” that explores “the connections between identity and territory”, describes the author.
Podcast NARRATIVA is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
20.07.2024
QUEENS, by Inês Ventura, will be part of the guest artists exhibition at the XXIII Cerveira International Art Biennial.
The work developed in the Masterclass NARRATIVA will be on display at Galeria Bienal de Cerveira, in the center of the town.
The Cerveira International Art Biennial is the oldest art biennial in the Iberian Peninsula and this edition’s theme is “Freedom”.
The Drag world has been widely documented over time, whether for aesthetic reasons or due to the attraction of a counter-current subculture.
Although there is a widespread idea in society about what a Drag Queen is, QUEENS seeks to show that there are multiple notions about what it means to be a Drag Queen.
The inauguration is scheduled for July 20th, at 4pm.
19.07.2024
Applications are now open for the 6th edition of Masterclass NARRATIVA.
Masterclass NARRATIVA aims to create a working group to develop photographic projects.
Masterclass NARRATIVA is aimed at anyone looking to communicate through a photographic narrative, regardless of their experience or the area they dedicate themselves to professionally.
Masterclass NARRATIVA runs from October to February with weekly follow-up sessions.
Masterclass NARRATIVA presents its results in a collective exhibition.
Masterclass NARRATIVA is taught by photographer and founder of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz, double winner of World Press Photo Award and Portuguese Society of Authors Award.
More information and conditions here.
14.07.2024
NARRATIVA once again had work developed within the scope of its masterclass internationally distinguished.
Maria, a project by Maria Abranches, received first prize at the Cortona On The Move Award 2024, which will give her the opportunity to exhibit her work in the next edition of the festival, and will enable the publication of a book.
Maria tells a story common to countless women, whose silent contribution built, shaped and sustains the world as we know it.
“Ana Maria was born in Angola, brought to Portugal at the age of nine and, in her words, spent her entire life cleaning”, says Maria Abranches.
13.07.2024
Our library has grown significantly since we opened doors in 2022.
Through investment in the acquisition of books, donations from authors and visitors, and partnerships with international publishers, NARRATIVA’s library offers works by emerging and established authors and rare books recognized with the main international distinctions.
Our library has been freely accessible since day one, establishing itself as a space of choice for photography students, teachers, researchers and different authors. It is also one of the main resources for the development of our workshops and, of course, for the NARRATIVA Masterclass.
NARRATIVA returned from Les Rencontres d’Arles festival with a significant contribution to the continued expansion of its library.
From today onwards the following works can be consulted:
- Adam Ferguson | Big Sky
- Peter Van Agtmael | Look at the U.S.A.: A Diary of War and Home
-Larry Towell | The History War
- Cristina De Middel | Journey To The Center
- Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni | Güle Güle
- Nikita Teryashin | Nothing Personal
- Bieke Depoorter | I am about to call it a day
- Francesco Merlini | Better In The Dark Than His Rider
- Antoine d’Agata | New York 1989-93
- JH Engstrom | CDG/JHE
11.07.2024
Joana Dionísio, winner of the FNAC 2024 New Talents award, was present at the exhibition Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme, to talk to visitors and discuss the work that is a dive into her family's colonial past, resulting in a project that “emerges from the tension between collective and individual memory” and the way in which these conceptions shape the perception of the past in the eyes of new generations.
28.06.2024
For the first time NARRATIVA will be at Les Rencontres d’Arles looking for work to exhibit and books to add to our library.
If you are interested in showing your work at our gallery please reach out between July 2 and July 5.
We’ll be around!
28.06.2024
NARRATIVA at school
NARRATIVA develops a workshop with 70 students from Escola Teixeira de Pascoais, in Alvalade.
This initiative aims to promote communication through instant photography - INSTAX, based on primary colors in the construction of visual narratives.
Each class works with one of the colors as a starting point to create imagery relationships, requiring careful observation of the different spaces in the school.
The workshop is based on books by Alex Webb and Harry Gruyaert, with the NARRATIVA library being an essential tool for the development of this project.
The students are accompanied by the director of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz, throughout the construction of their work.
The work developed is presented on the last school day of the current academic year.
27.06.2024
Opening of the exhibition Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme, by Joana Dionísio
This year, NARRATIVA maintains its relevant partnership with FNAC New Talents award and displays in its gallery the winning work in the 2024 photography category.
Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme, developed by Joana Dionísio, is a dive into the colonial past of the photographer's family, “reflecting a personal contemporary analysis of this legacy” that explores “the connections between identity and territory”, describes the author about her work distinguished with the maximum award in the Photography category. The result is a project that “emerges from the tension between collective and individual memory” and the way in which these conceptions shape the perception of the past in the eyes of new generations.
The exhibition is supported and produced by Moldura Minuto.
21.06.2024
Narrativa’s festival brought together the public that, throughout the year, follows NARRATIVA’s program and was also an opportunity to get to know new neighbours.
NARRATIVA reopens on June 27th with the opening of the exhibition Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme, by Joana Dionísio, winner of the FNAC New Talents 2024 award.
17.06.2024
Podcast Narrativa
S02#E05 Despojos de Guerra - The colonial trauma revisited
In this episode you hear from photojournalist Leonel de Castro about Despojos de Guerra, a work developed over three years (2020-23) that uncovers the forgotten wounds of soldiers, on both sides of the barricades, who fought during the Colonial War (1961-74).
15.06.2024
As part of Despojos de Guerra exhibition, a conversation takes place between the photojournalist, Leonel de Castro, and ex-combatants of the Colonial War who are part of the work developed by the author and which is now on display at Centro Português de Fotografia, in Porto.
NARRATIVA was responsible for curating the exhibition, as was co-editing the book.
02.06.2024
This year, NARRATIVA maintains its relevant partnership with FNAC New Talents award and displays in its gallery the winning work in the 2024 photography category.
Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme, developed by Joana Dionísio, is a dive into the colonial past of the photographer's family, “reflecting a personal contemporary analysis of this legacy” that explores “the connections between identity and territory”, describes the author about her work distinguished with the maximum award in the Photography category. The result is a project that “emerges from the tension between collective and individual memory” and the way in which these conceptions shape the perception of the past in the eyes of new generations.
The exhibition Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme is scheduled to open on June 27th and is the result of curatorial work developed by NARRATIVA with the author.
02.06.2024
NARRATIVA sees once again a work developed within the scope of its masterclass distinguished in the FNAC New Talents awards.
Maria, a project by Maria Abranches, received an honorable mention in the photography category.
Maria tells a story common to countless women, whose silent contribution built, shaped and sustains the world as we know it.
“Ana Maria was born in Angola, was brought to Portugal at the age of nine and, in her words, spent her entire life cleaning”, explains the author about the project developed in the Masterclass NARRATIVA 23/24.
This distinction reinforces NARRATIVA’s role as a platform that amplifies the visibility of emerging names in Portuguese photography.
29.05.2024
Podcast NARRATIVA
S02#04 Terra Vermelha - Portrait of a dystopian Amazon
Terra Vermelha, by Tommaso Protti, is an exhibition that reveals the different layers of an urban Amazon that is often unknown.
In this episode of our podcast we talk to the Italian photographer about his work currently on display in our gallery and about everyday life in a place plagued by drug trafficking, violence and poverty, in the hope that whoever listens to us can better understand what it really is this massive territory known as the Amazon.
Listen here.
25.05.2024
RTP visited the Despojos de Guerra exhibition, on display at the Centro Português de Fotografia, in Porto, and spoke with Leonel de Castro about this work developed in partnership with NARRATIVA.
18.05.2024
ROOF: Conversation with Mário Cruz
In the week in which the biggest rise in rents in the last 30 years was reported, NARRATIVA promotes a conversation with Mário Cruz, author of ROOF - an exhibition and a book that reveal the hidden side of the housing crisis.
The immersive exhibition that is on display in a vacant building at Rua Augusto Rosa, 15, in Lisbon, is the meeting point for a session in which the work process of the Portuguese photographer, winner of two World Press Photo awards, is discussed, and how the city hides the faces of those who live in inhumane conditions and those who fight a lonely battle for decent access to housing.
The conversation is moderated by journalist Pedro Sousa Pereira.
17.05.2024
RTP visits the ROOF exhibition, by Mário Cruz.
15.05.2024
Almada won the Local Autarchy of the Year award for the exhibition 50 Anos 50 Retratos.
The exhibition, developed by NARRATIVA, brought together 25 authors and was on display in different parts of the city, with the street as a gallery.
14.05.2024
The publisher Blow Up Press made a generous donation to our library after its presence in Lisbon during Ciclo NARRATIVA 2024.
Our library has grown these days and now has nine new works (some of them out of print and awarded) that represent well the diversity and quality of Blow Up Press, a publisher that has become a global reference for the way it constructs and presents photographic narratives in book format.
10.05.2024
Conversation and workshop with Gustavo Minas
Brazilian photographer Gustavo Minas visits NARRATIVA and talks about his work process and how street photography is a constant search in his life.
The author ends his visit to Portugal with a two-day street photography workshop in Lisbon and NARRATIVA is the place where its theoretical part takes place.
05.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | NARRATIVA Masterclass 24/25 launch
This year’s Ciclo ended with an informative session about the next edition of Masterclass NARRATIVA, which will have something new. The participants chosen for the next edition will be selected according to a new criterion: an online conversation with each pre-selected author to reveal their motivations behind the project they intend to address.
05.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | Blow Up Press presentation
One of the highlights of Ciclo’s last day was the presentation by Aneta Kowalczyk and Grzegorz Kosmala, the minds behind the renowned publisher Blow UP Press, who accepted our invitation to be present in Lisbon during Ciclo NARRATIVA. In addition to participating in a debate about the photography book and a portfolio review on Saturday, we had the pleasure of attending this Sunday a remarkable presentation by the award-winning duo of editors in which they shared with a full room their creative process of designing a book in which no detail is left to chance.
05.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | Open Call Emerging Authors
For the first time, NARRATIVA decided to give a stage to three emerging photographers to present their work at Ciclo. Catarina Cesário Jesus, Francesca Faulin and João Cruz presented their projects, which address topics as diverse as trauma, family memory and identity, to a packed audience on the last day of Ciclo NARRATIVA 2024.
05.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | Tommaso Protti masterclass
In addition to the impactful presentation of Terra Vermelha, which took place on Saturday, Tommaso Protti gave a sold-out masterclass this Sunday in which he shared his work process with 12 participants.
05.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | ROOF guided visit
The last day of Ciclo 2024 began with a guided visit of ROOF exhibition, by Mário Cruz.
When ROOF began to be developed, in 2013, the city was different. Lisbon, however, was already showing the first signs that a housing crisis would affect the most vulnerable sectors of Portuguese society.
ROOF has witnessed, over ten years, the drama of a reality that is now exposed through a book and an exhibition that shows the hidden side of the housing crisis in Lisbon, Europe's number one tourist destination.
The city now hides the faces of those who live in inhumane conditions and those who fight a lonely battle for decent access to housing.
These people survive on the scraps of what others discard and occupy abandoned buildings, boarded-up factories, vacant schools or rusty shipping containers in an effort to transform them into something that resembles a home.
04.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | All The Beauty And The Bloodshed screening
We ended the second day of Ciclo with the screening of the documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed, at Cinema Fernando Lopes.
The documentary, directed by Laura Poitras, focuses on the career of artist Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family's pharmaceutical empire. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary category.
A truly breathtaking work that marks the program of this edition of Ciclo NARRATIVA.
04.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | Talk with Tommaso Protti
This edition brought Terra Vermelha, by Tommaso Protti - a dive into the heart of the Amazon - which aims to raise questions about what led this territory to the social and environmental breaking point it finds itself at.
Tomasso Protti, the guest author of this year's Ciclo, shared with a full room stories and details that help to better understand his project carried out over ten years.
04.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | Photography book debate
At NARRATIVA, one of our main missions is to democratize photography – and one of the ways we can ensure this is through the appreciation and access to books. As such, it made perfect sense to promote a debate with three publishers, whose work we highly value, to open up dialogue to the public and reveal their creative process, but also the challenges that publishers like XYZ Books, Blow UP Press and Fotografika face in their day-to-day life.
04.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | Despojos de Guerra book presentation
NARRATIVA was the stage for a memorable presentation of Leonel de Castro's most recent book, Despojos de Guerra, in which the public had the privilege of having access to the touching testimony of ex-combatants who were present.
This work on wounded veterans on both sides of the Colonial War (1961-74) is the first photographic essay carried out in Portugal on such a determining topic in Portuguese society.
Leonel de Castro made six trips to Guinea, Mozambique and Angola and traveled extensively throughout the national territory to carry out this important project for collective memory and which was finally made known in the year in which 50 years of Portuguese democracy are celebrated.
04.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | Portfolio Reviews
In this edition of the Ciclo NARRATIVA, the portfolio reviews was performed by the editors of Blow Up Press, Aneta Kowalczyk and Grzegorz Kosmala, the editor of Fotografika Publishing, Katya Bogachevskaya, the director of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz, and the photographer and guest author from Ciclo 2024, Tommaso Protti.
03.05.2024
Ciclo NARRATIVA | Terra Vermelha Opening
Italian photographer Tommaso Protti is the guest author of the Ciclo NARRATIVA 2024 and the inauguration of Terra Vermelha exhibition opens this year's edition.
Terra Vermelha, a work that won the Picture of The Year International award and the Carmignac Foundation award, will be on display in the NARRATIVA gallery.
The author has lived in Brazil for ten years, precisely to document today's Amazon, a place where indigenous communities fight for survival in the face of rampant deforestation.
More than in other places, in the Amazon it is clear that land is worth more than human life. And on the path to the destruction of the planet, the next step for humanity is its own extinction.
30.04.2024
NARRATIVA Podcast
S02#03 ROOF - Photography as a warning
In this episode you hear Mário Cruz, photographer, editor, curator and director of NARRATIVA, talking about ROOF - a project that took 10 years to come to fruition and that reveals the hidden side of the housing crisis in Lisbon.
NARRATIVA closely followed the last stages of this project, which is now presented in the form of an exhibition and book.
This podcast is part of the Público newspaper podcast network and is available to listen to on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Listen here.
27.04.2024
ROOF exhibition opening | MÁRIO CRUZ
NARRATIVA thanks the hundreds of people who attended the opening of ROOF exhibition, by Mário Cruz.
It was, in fact, extraordinary to witness the interest of so many people who lined up outside the street – to whom we are grateful for waiting to be able to visit the exhibition.
It took weeks of intense work to create an immersive exhibition, to the point of creating a direct connection between the places where the photographs were taken and the space the exhibition occupies.
This exhibition reminds us that the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April should also be used to look at the present and reflect on what is yet to be achieved.
25.04.2024
NARRATIVA space celebrates its 2nd anniversary today.
On April 25th, 2022, we opened the doors for the first time with carnations and a full house to meet new Portuguese authors.
After two years, NARRATIVA is recognized nationally and internationally due to its 100% free programming and the open way in which it welcomes and exposes emerging and established authors from different areas of photographic intervention.
The date chosen for the opening - April 25th - was a natural decision, taking into account the way we value and defend freedom of expression.
Photography has in NARRATIVA, today and always, a space open to everyone and a platform that defends and promotes the values of April.
Long live the 25th of April!
21.04.2024
Opening of the exhibition Despojos de Guerra, by Leonel de Castro
There was a full house at the Portuguese Photography Center for the opening of the exhibition and launch of the book Despojos de Guerra, by Leonel de Castro.
The session represented the culmination of a long-term work process that NARRATIVA followed from the beginning, having curated the exhibition and co-edited the book.
This work is presented in full at the right time, on the 25th of April. Despojos de Guerra not only shows the marks of the past through an archive never seen before, it also documents the present through the marks of those who lived through the colonial war and the different territories where the conflict took place.
14.04.2024
Fujifilm Workshop: Introduction to photography
Another photography initiation workshop, developed by Narrativa and Fujifilm, was concluded, in which photographic technique, composition and authorial development were the subjects approached.
The workshop was taught by André Dias Nobre, with the support of Filipa Leite Rosa and Mário Cruz.
Participants:
Filipa Fernandes, Rita Barradas, João Sundfeld, Isabel Alonso Gomes, Sara Sousa, André Lima, Ana Furtado, Luís Gonçalves and Vítor Enes.
13.04.2024
Finissage Masterclass NARRATIVA 23/24
The exhibition that reveals the projects developed in the 5th edition of NARRATIVA Masterclass ended as it began – with a full house.
Each work was widely shared and we are grateful to the more than 640 people who visited the exhibition in our gallery.
The NARRATIVA Masterclass will continue its path towards the appreciation of photography, showcasing new authors and photography built with time and thought.
11.04.204
Today we received several users from Santa Joana Princesa Residence, in Alvalade, who, in addition to visiting the Masterclass 23/24 collective exhibition, consulted several works from our library.
04.04.2024
The project do Mar, by Elisa Freitas, developed in the 23/24 NARRATIVA Masterclass, is highlighted at P3.
“Do Mar delves into the significant transformations that São Bartolomeu do Mar, a small community on the Minho coast of Portugal, faced due to coastal erosion. The project moves away from the annual pilgrimage, through which that land was sought, and focuses on the physical evolution of the landscape, marked by the disappearance of the beach, but also by the social changes that shaped the community over time following this event. ” Elisa Freitas.
The collective exhibition that reveals the six projects developed in the 23/24 NARRATIVA Masterclass is on display until April 13th in NARRATIVA’s gallery.
Read the article here.
23.03.2024
The project Under The Bridge, by Guillermo Vidal, developed in the 23/24 NARRATIVA Masterclass, is highlighted at P3.
“Under The Bridge portrays a community of homeless people in Santa Apolónia, Lisbon. This project focuses on the details of their daily lives, in a limited space but occupied by many, representing a reality that proliferates across different parts of the city and the country.” Guillermo Vidal.
The collective exhibition that reveals the six projects developed in the 23/24 NARRATIVA Masterclass is on display until April 13th in NARRATIVA’s gallery.
Read the article here.
22.03.2024
NARRATIVA welcomed Scottish photographer Stuart Paton for a conversation about his work process.
This weekend, NARRATIVA will be closed to host the second part of Stuart's visit - a two-day workshop - which will allow attendees to work side by side with the author on the streets of Lisbon, with participants having access to his working methods. an author who seeks alienation, identity and social dissonance in his street photography.
12.03.2024
Maria Beatriz de Vilhena and Rui Costa were selected through the Porto Photography Biennial for the Futures 2024 platform with projects developed in the NARRATIVA Masterclass.
Every year, the various members of Futures nominate a group of artists to join the platform.
The selected authors will participate in the platform's activities to present their work to international professionals and to establish contacts, among other opportunities that will be provided to them, including exhibitions, publications, portfolio reviews and other events.
09.03.2024
Opening of Masterclass 23/24 NARRATIVA’s exhibition
It was a full house opening (around 300 people) on the day we presented the projects developed in the 5th edition of the Masterclass – which is the genesis of NARRATIVA.
Over the course of five months, Bárbara Monteiro, Elisa Freitas, Emanuel Amorim, Guillermo Vidal, Maria Abranches and Rafaela Araújo, developed six projects under the mentorship of photographer and founder of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz.
The results are on view in our gallery until April 13th, the day on which a conversation will take place with all the authors.
06.03.2024
NARRATIVA Podcast
S02#02 Identity, territory, housing and death: the highlighted themes in the new Masterclass 23/24 exhibition
In the new episode of our podcast, we spoke with Bárbara Monteiro, Elisa Freitas, Emanuel Amorim, Guillermo Vidal, Maria Abranches and Rafaela Araújo about the projects they developed in the NARRATIVA’s 23/24 Masterclass.
Topics such as housing, climate change and territory and the way we deal with death are explored by the authors presented this year.
This podcast is part of the Público newspaper podcast network and is available to listen to on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
24.02.2024
JAMAIKA finissage and Kid Robbin concert
This exhibition generated great interest and gave much-needed attention to the Jamaica neighborhood community, and, simultaneously, to other communities fighting for decent housing.
The conversation with the author and the concert by Kid Robbin, artist and resident of the neighborhood, constituted an extraordinary sharing moment and proved that photography is a tool with unique social importance.
What remains for history is an exhibition that was visited by 610 people and a book, co-edited by NARRATIVA.
22.02.2024
It was a full house at NARRATIVA to welcome the launch of Rui Costa's first book, Uma Azeitona Bordada em Azul.
This work is special for NARRATIVA because it is the culmination of a journey that began in the 2022/2023 Masterclass and which had relevant importance because of different points:
- The work won the FNAC New Talents Award;
- It had a solo exhibition at NARRATIVA’s gallery
The visit of the author's grandmother to the exhibition was also a remarkable moment that confirms photography as a unique form of communication, with extraordinary power.
The book is also a reflection of the path that NARRATIVA has taken in the area of publishing, with this book being the second work published in 2024 with the seal of NARRATIVA.
18.02.2024
Fujifilm Workshop: RAW Edition
NARRATIVA and Fujifilm developed a RAW file editing workshop. The workshop was taught by Ricardo Dias, professor at CENJOR, and was aimed at those who want to acquire basic and intermediate knowledge of image processing in RAW format using software such as Adobe Bridge, Adobe Camera RAW or Adobe Lightroom.
17.02.2024
Conversation: Artificial Intelligence in Photography
NARRATIVA organized a conversation about the use of Artificial Intelligence in contemporary photography, which included the participation of relevant players from both photography and research areas, with the aim of discussing the potential benefits and threats that AI poses to photography as a means of documenting the world and artistic production.
Moderator: Karla Pequenino
Panel: Luísa Coheur, Paulo Catrica and Sérgio B. Gomes.
10.02.2024
JAMAIKA: conversation with José Sarmento Matos
José Sarmento Matos, author of JAMAIKA, talks about the development of this project and the process of documenting Bairro da Jamaica, a community in Seixal made up of around 700 inhabitants, often racialized and marginalized, recounting their struggle for decent housing.
10.02.2024
Instax Workshop: Carnival
In 2024, NARRATIVA and Fujifilm have once again developed the Instax Workshop: Carnival for children, where small visual narratives are developed through instant photography, drawing and collage.
08.02.2024
Debate: Photojournalism in Portugal
In the aftermath of the 5th Congress of Journalists, NARRATIVA organized a conversation, that brought together photojournalists from different media outlets and with different professional ties to debate the current state of photojournalism.
The debate did not end today and NARRATIVA is committed to being a meeting point for future exchanges of ideas.
01.02.2024
Presentation of the book Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975, a monthly event as part of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April.
This work, a collection of essays, constitutes the first critical volume published in English on the history of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa. Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 brings together sixteen academic researchers from fields as diverse as history, anthropology, art history, visual culture, or museum studies, to account for some of the crucial aspects of visual representation in the longest-lasting European colonial empire in Africa.
The presentation is in charge of editors Filipa Lowndes Vicente and Afonso Dias Ramos
21.01.2024
Podcast Narrativa
S02#01 JAMAIKA – The neighborhood beyond the rubble
In this episode we listen to José Sarmento Matos talk about JAMAIKA, a documentary work carried out over three years in the Bairro da Jamaica, in Seixal, a work that is currently in exhibition at NARRATIVA’s gallery until February 24th. We talked about political aspects that involved this territory, about structural racism, but also about the photographic process of carrying out a long-term project, the conception of the exhibition and the publication of the book of the same name co-edited by NARRATIVA.
Listen here.
21.01.2024
Fujifilm Workshop: Portrait
Today another Fujifilm Workshop: Portrait took place, taught by X-Photographer João Carlos, at NARRATIVA.
20.01.2024
SIC visited the JAMAIKA exhibition, by José Sarmento Matos, and spoke with the author about this work that reveals an intimate portrait of the community in the Jamaica neighborhood, in Seixal.
Journalist: André Pacheco
Image reporter: Edgar Ascensão
Watch it here.
15.01.2024
Opening of the exhibition PORTUGAL LIVRE 1974-2024, curated by NARATIVA, at Praça dos Restauradores and conversation with the photojournalists present at the exhibition about the future of photojournalism in Portugal, at Cinema São Jorge.
13.01.2024
At the reopening of NARRATIVA in 2024, there was a full house for the opening of the exhibition and launch of the book JAMAIKA, by José Sarmento Matos.
NARRATIVA thanks everyone who was present, in particular the Jamaica neighborhood community, and sees this turnout as a positive sign of interest for the programming that is being prepared for the course of 2024.
06.01.2024
Opening of the exhibition Uma Azeitona Bordada em Azul, by Rui Costa, at Galeria da Estação, in Braga.
The work, now exhibited within the scope of Encontros da Imagem, was developed in the Masterclass Narrativa 22/23 and distinguished with the FNAC New Talents 2023 award.
The exhibition was curated by Narrativa.
16.12.2023
We ended our schedule for 2023 with a conversation with all the authors of NARRATIVA's first collective project, OMNIS.
A meeting in which we reviewed what was achieved in 2023 and what will come in 2024.
NARRATIVA reopens on January 13th with a new exhibition and with the same mission: to value and share photography as a form of communication and expression.
14.12.2023
Loneliness book launch by Luís Ramos
Loneliness project, present at the Budapest Photo Festival, is now presented in book form. The work reveals the city not as a place of fluxes but as a basis for reflection on public space as a representative of loneliness in the context of isolation and limitation that occurred at the beginning of the current decade.
About the author: Independent photographer and founder of Público newspaper, his work is present in the art collections of Fundação EDP, Fundação D. Luís I, Casa da Cerca, among others.
Loneliness is now, of course, available in NARRATIVA’s library.
12.12.2023
NARRATIVA’s books of the year
To celebrate our library, and following the tradition of sharing what we liked the most, we share a list of ten books present in our library, divided between books that were published in 2023 and books published previously, but which only arrived this year at NARRATIVA.
Top 5 | Books published in 2023:
Jim Goldberg - Coming and Going
Asli Oezcelik - Sıhhatler Olsun
Tommaso Protti - Red Earth
FotoEvidence - Ukraine: A War Crime
Trent Parke - Monument
Top 5 | Books previously published and added to the library in 2023:
Emma Hardy - Permissions
Lucilia Monteiro - Image Photo Body Place
The Anonymous Project - Midcentury Memories
Mike Brodie - Tones of Dirt and Bone
Sayuri Ichida - Absentee
05.12.2023
Podcast Narrativa
#06 OMNIS - Narrativa’s first collective project
In this new episode we hear Inês Ventura, Mário Cruz and Rodrigo Vargas discussing OMNIS, Narrativa's first collective project, which documents World Youth Day. The exhibition can be visited until December 16th. They talk about how this project was designed and built according to each authors' vision and how religion influences all of our lives.
The Narrativa Podcast is now part of the Público newspaper podcast network.
25.11.2023
Opening of the exhibition 50 Anos - 50 Retratos, which brings together 25 authors from different areas of photographic intervention in an exercise of authorial freedom and cultural appreciation. The exhibition is on display in 14 locations in the city of Almada, featuring works by established and emerging photographers and photographers from the city.
NARRATIVA is responsible for the curation and editorial coordination of this project that aims to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city of Almada.
24.11.2023
NARRATIVA is grateful for the invitation and the opportunity to present its project and cultural program at the Lisbon Photobook Fair 13th edition.
NARRATIVA’s founder, Mário Cruz, shared NARRATIVA's journey and its editorial plan for the first half of 2024.
22.11.2023
Conversation with X-Photographer Rebecca Gaal
A conversation about her work process and the way she uses photography to construct visual narratives that relate human health to the environment.
Rebecca Gaal is graduated in public health and environmental sciences, currently directs the creative and photography strategies at Tandem Stills and Motion, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, a state-of-the-art hospital and life-supporting rehabilitation facility local wild.
Her work is published in National Geographic, Adobe, Rockefeller, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
18.11.2023
Fujifilm Workshop: Introduction to photography
A second edition of this workshop was concluded, a workshop that focus on photographic technique, composition and authorial development.
The workshop was led by André Dias Nobre, with the support of Mário Cruz, Patrícia de Melo Moreira and Inês Ventura.
14.11.2023
The photographer and founder of Narrativa, Filipa Leite Rosa, presents the project Póvoa e Meadas at Exodus Aveiro Fest 2023.
The work was developed in the Masterclass Narrativa 21/22 and resulted in the publication of her first book.
11.11.2023
Void Photo, a Greek publisher specializing in photography books, donated 14 works to Narrativa.
Our library with more than 200 books, including rare copies, can be freely consulted.
Narrativa thanks Void for its help in its mission to promote free access to visual culture.
04.11.2023
OMNIS book: the first publication of Narrativa as a collective of authors.
The book, which condenses the authors' work and launched this Saturday, during the opening of OMNIS exhibition, was limited to 100 copies and sold out on the same day.
04.11.2023
The opening of OMNIS exhibition, Narrativa's first collective project, was attended by more than 150 people.
Thank you all for your presence support. This is the only way for the continuity of Narrativa’s mission in making photography accessible to everyone.
The exhibition is supported by Fujifilm and Moldura Minuto.
29.10.2023
The Instax Workshop: Halloween took place today with the participation of 12 children who created small visual narratives through photography, collage and drawing.
Thank you to Instax for your continued support of Narrativa.
28.10.2023
We finish the exhibition Ukraine: A War Crime with a visit that honors us and marks the Narrativa’s program. Narrativa received and is grateful for the visit of the ambassadors of Ukraine, Poland, Denmark, Croatia, Hungary, Sweden, Canada, Finland and Australia.
Ukraine: A War Crime, based on the book published by FotoEvidence, was visited by more than 600 people, fulfilling its purpose of sharing and valuing photography as evidence.
27.10.2023
Today we welcomed students from the Professional Image School for a visit to the exhibition Ukraine: A War Crime.
The exhibition ends tomorrow and aims to draw public attention to the need to reflect on what this conflict is and its deeper impacts.
25.10.2023
Rui Soares, one of the authors of the Masterclass Narrativa 2022/2023, presents his projecto, Lugar, at the Fujifilm IMAG(IN) event, taking place on October 27th, in Ponta Delgada, Azores.
The project, developed throughout the masterclass, documents the territorial and social dimensions of Lugar de Remédios de Lagoa, a village on the island of São Miguel.
21.10.2023
The Masterclass Narrativa 2023/2024 has begun, taught by the founder of Narrativa, Mário Cruz.
Until February, six projects will be developed in which photography will act as a form of communication and expression.
For this edition, the following authors were selected: Bárbara Monteiro, Elisa Freitas, Emanuel Amorim, Guillermo Vidal, Maria Abranches and Rafaela Araújo.
07.10.2023
Podcast Narrativa
#05 Svetlana Bachevanova and Oksana Parafeniuk – The role of photography as evidence
We spoke with FotoEvidence director Svetlana Bachevanova and the Ukrainian photojournalist Oksana Parafeniuk, in an episode about the book and the exhibition Ukraine: A War Crime.
27.09.2023
Today we welcomed IEFP students from Setúbal to visit the exhibition Ukraine: A War Crime.
School visits can be scheduled on the Narrativa website.
23.09.2023
The participants selected for the Masterclass Narrativa 2023/2024 are: Bárbara Monteiro, Elisa Freitas, Emanuel Amorim, Guillermo Vidal, Maria Abranches and Rafaela Araújo.
The exhibition that will show these authors works will open to the public in March 2024.
18.09.2023
RTP spoke with photojournalist Oksana Parafeniuk on the day of the Ukraine: A War Crime book’s presentation.
Today, the work published by FotoEvidence was awarded the Book of the Year award at the International Photography Awards.
17.09.2023
Narrativa welcomed the presentation of the book Ukraine: A War Crime, which is the starting point for the homonymous exhibition. This work, published by FotoEvidence, was highlighted at the Arles Meetings and brings together the work of 93 photojournalists from 29 countries.
The presentation featured testimonies from the founder and director of FotoEvidence, Svetlana Bachevanova, and Ukrainian photojournalist Oksana Parafeniuk.
16.09.2023
Ukraine: A War Crime
There were almost two hundred people who filled Narrativa’s gallery for the opening of an exhibition that we believe to be of the greatest importance.
Tomorrow, the presentation of the book is scheduled for 5pm, with testimonies of FotoEvidence’s director, Svetlana Bachevanova, and photojournalist Oksana Parafeniuk.
15.09.2023
Ukraine: A War Crime
SIC has already visited the exhibition and spoke to Ukrainian photojournalist, Oksana Parafeniuk.
The exhibition opens on September 16th.
14.09.2023
Exhibition “Ukraine: A War Crime” in this week's Visão magazine.
19.08.2023
Podcast Narrativa
#04 Martin Parr – Photography in transformation by those who changed it
We spoke to Martin Parr in a special episode marking World Photography Day.
We talked about what this Magnum photographer, who is one of the most represented authors in the Narrativa library, still wants to achieve in photography; about the work carried out by the Martin Parr Foundation, created in 2017; and about photography books.
02.08.2023
QUEENS exhibition | Inês Ventura
The exhibition that reveals the project entitled QUEENS, developed in the 22/23 Narrativa Masterclass, is open until September 9th, at Maus Hábitos, Porto.
Curated by Narrativa.
29.07.2023
The last day of the exhibition that showed the FNAC 2023 New Talents Award winning project.
The last guided tour was a summary of what happened over the last month: an author always present and available and many visitors interested in learning more about his work.
15.07.2023
Fujifilm Workshop: Portrait (Module III) w/ João Carlos
This Fujifilm workshop is the culmination of the portrait training given by X-Photographer João Carlos. In this last module, participants will explore advanced lighting techniques (natural light, flash), composition and posing.
12.07.2023
Presentation of the book 88/98, by Inês Gonçalves. 88/89 is a compendium built from fragments collected from the many other books and catalogs that the photographer published throughout the decade that culminated in the turn of the millennium.
The book, which is from now on available at the Narrativa’s library, shows the different authorial layers of Inês Gonçalves and, on the other hand, has the ability to reveal a decade of unique work.
06.07.2023
O Mais Comprido Museu do Mundo is a book that will give space to a new way of seeing and thinking one of the oldest and longest Portugal roads, Estrada Nacional 2, with photographs by Álvaro Domingues, Duarte Belo, Valter Vinagre, Daniel Malhão, Nuno Cera and Paulo Catrica.
Today, in conversation with Duarte Belo, Eduardo Costa Pinto and Valter Vinagre, there was unanimous confidence that the book will be published soon.
03.07.2023
Podcast Narrativa
#3 Rui Costa – Photography as a tool to understand who surrounds us
In this episode we hear Rui Costa, winner of the 2023 Fnac New Talents Photography award, about his project Uma Azeitona Bordada em Azul, which is in exhibition on Narrativa’s gallery until 29 July. We talk about how this project was conceived and built and what the author intends to take from photography in the future.
29.06.2023
Imagem Foto Corpo Lugar
The presentation of the book Imagem Foto Corpo Lugar, by Lucília Monteiro, demonstrated how photographic work created from archives is a path of infinite possibilities.
22.06.2023
Uma Azeitona Bordada em Azul exhibition opening.
The return of the New Talents FNAC 2023 exhibition to our gallery is the confirmation that Narrativa is currently a unique stage for the projection of emerging names in Portuguese photography.
14.06.2023
Queens project, by Inês Ventura, is featured in Público P3.
The work was developed in the Masterclass Narrativa 22/23 and will culminate in the publication of a book.
07.06.2023
Passos com Cultura (steps with culture)
Today we received a visit from several users of the Santa Joana Princesa Residence, in Alvalade, with the aim of making known the historical and cultural heritage of that parish and bringing its residents closer to culture. This visit took place within the scope of the Passos com Cultura project, which aims to make known different areas of artistic intervention and to create a newspaper to publicize the parish's cultural offer among the resident population.
03.06.2023
Project developed in the Masterclass Narrativa wins New Talents FNAC Photography 2023.
Rui Costa, 33 years old, born in Vila Franca de Xira, was distinguished with the photography category award with the project Uma Azeitona Bordada em Azul.
The exhibitions’s opening of Rui Costa’s work, which addresses themes such as loneliness and suicide, is scheduled for June 22nd, at 7pm, at Narrativa
One of the honorable mentions in this edition was given to photographer Rodrigo Vargas, one of the founding members of Narrativa, for his Delta project, an essay on the connections and disconnections of the Ribatejo territory and its people.
03.06.2023
We celebrated Children's Day with an Instax Workshop at Academia do Johnson.
Participants created small narratives through instant photography, drawings and collages.
Academia do Johnson is a non-governmental organization, located in Bairro do Zambujal, which aims to promote human development and well-being, through personalized mentoring of children and young people from fragile family and social backgrounds.
26.05.2023
Matt Stuart was at Narrativa this Friday and spoke to a packed room about street photography and some of his most acclaimed works, such as All That Life Can Afford, a book about the beauty and contradictions of London.
His visit ended that weekend with a photography workshop in the streets of Lisbon.
20.05.2023
Workshop Fujifilm: Post-production, taught by photographer Paulo Correia, took place today at Narrativa.
A day dedicated to acquiring and updating knowledge in post-production using Adobe's CameraRaw (Photoshop - Lightroom).
14.05.2023
Chat with Emma Hardy today at Público P2.
The exhibition is open until June 9th.
13.05.2023
This week we received a visit from ETIC students.
Scheduling school visits can be done here.
06.05.2023
Launch of the book Looking For a Poem, by Adriano Sobral. The author's first book is now available at the Narrativa library.
01.05.2023
Photographer Emma Hardy spoke with journalist Cristiana Reis, from SIC Notícias, about the exhibition “Permissions”.
01.05.2023
Podcast Narrativa
#02 Emma Hardy - The tenderness and emotion of photographing with the heart
In this episode you hear Emma Hardy, the guest of this year’s Ciclo Narrativa, talk about her Permissions project, which is on display at the Narrativa gallery until June 9th. She talks about the passage of time, loss, and how the act of photographing her family allowed the author the freedom to build a moving reality.
29.04.2023
Ciclo Narrativa 2023 | Documentary “Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable”, by Sasha Waters Freyer.
The screening of this edition of Ciclo Narrativa focuses on the life and work of the North American photographer Garry Winogrand, presented in a 2018 documentary, signed by filmmaker Sasha Waters Freyer, which is shown for the first time in Portugal.
29.04.2023
Emma Hardy was the guest author of the Ciclo Narrativa 2023.
The author shared the creation process behind “Permissions” project and spoke about the book, a conversation that ended with an autograph session.
28.04.2023
The Ciclo Narrativa 2023 was celebrated over three days with a new exhibition, portfolios reviews, books, discussions, a documentary screening and a lot of photographic sharing.
28.04.2023
Emma Hardy's exhibition “Permissions” featured on CNN.
28.04.2023
Launch of the exhibition “Permissions”, by Emma Hardy.
The first monograph by British photographer Emma Hardy is a document that highlights the tenderness of motherhood and childhood, but also the love and yearning to leave home. The images that make up this exhibition span a period of 20 years, having been selected from the photographer's personal archive. The photographs now shown for the first time in Portugal show moments from the author's private life, interspersed with idyllic scenes that record Hardy's attempts to balance her creative professional life with motherhood.
The exhibition was produced by Moldura Minuto and is open until June 9th.
27.04.2023
A year of Narrativa, featured today in Público.
Full article here.Discussion Narrativa 22/23
15.04.2023
Discussion Narrativa 22/23
Discussion with the authors of the exhibition Narrativa 22/23, Bruno Saavedra, Inês Ventura, João Santos, Rui Costa, Rui Soares and Teresa Ribeiro on the last day of the exhibition at Narrativa.
08.04.2023
Narrativa Podcast
#01 Mário Cruz - Plans for the future and what lies beyond the act of photographing.
Starting today, Narrativa has a podcast available on different streaming platforms (in Portuguese). The objective is to generate conversations around photography with the authors who bring Narrativa's cultural program to life.
In the first episode Sebastião Almeida talks with Mário Cruz, founder of Narrativa and winner of two World Press Photo awards, about plans for the future of this cultural space dedicated to photography.
08.04.2023
The exhibition “Póvoa e Meadas”, by Filipa Leite Rosa, will be patent, starting tomorrow, in the village that names this project.
The project was developed in the Masterclass Narrativa 21/22 and resulted in the author's first book.
This exhibition could only have been curated by Narrativa.
31.03.2023
The three-month project with the primary and middle school Teixeira de Pascoais, in which the founder of Narrativa, Mário Cruz, accompanied more than 100 students, ends today with the opening of the exhibition “Narrativa na Escola”.
This exhibition reveals a unique perspective, that of students. With an Instax camera they photographed different parts of a common property, the school.
30.03.2023
Talk with António Júlio Duarte
Photographer António Júlio Duarte talks with the editorial director, Cláudio Garrudo, about his retrospective published in the Ph Series book.
Ph.10 António Júlio Duarte is a journey through the photographer's worlds and reflects his constant wandering through urban spaces. The book reveals several new works by the artist and has a markedly chronological structure, where AJD revisits some concepts and identity forms of his work.
15.03.2023
Fujifilm Workshop: Introduction to photography taught by photographer André Dias Nobre.
Between the 15th of March and the 15th of April, Narrativa and Fujifilm develop a workshop on photographic technique, composition and authorial development.
04.03.2023
The inauguration of Narrativa 22/23 exhibition was attended by more than 400 people who, over three hours, celebrated the result of the 4th edition of the Masterclass Narrativa.
The exhibition reveals the projects of Bruno Saavedra, Inês Ventura, João Santos, Rui Costa, Rui Soares and Teresa Ribeiro.
24.02.2023
On the day that marks one year since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Narrativa projects the work of Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk, who documented the war for Time magazine.
19.02.2023
Instax Workshop: Carnival
Celebration of Carnival at Narrativa through an Instax workshop. Small narratives were created with instant photography, collages and drawings.
18.02.2023
Guided tour of the Safe House exhibition with the author, the photographer Lea Thijs.
14.02.2023
Editing of the works developed in the Narrativa Masterclass 22/23.
08.02.2023
Talk with Público's editor and photojournalist, Miguel Manso. The session focused on the work carried out in Ukraine between March 2022 and January 2023 and the importance of photojournalism and photography as evidence and as an object of information.
29.01.2023
Fujifilm Workshop: Portrait Workshop’s second module with photographer João Carlos.
28.01.2023
Talk with Luís Barbosa, photographer and one of the authors of the Prison Photo Project. The project provides a vision of contemporary Portuguese prisons.
20.01.2023
Launch of Kioskzine 6.0, dedicated to the work República, by Augusto Brázio.
In República, Augusto Brázio starts from a reflection around a more hidden, less oneiric Portugal.
15.01.2023
Inauguration of the exhibition Safe House, by South African-Belgian photographer Lea Thijs.
Safe House is an authorial work centered on the author's father, recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
21.12.2022
Launch of the book CONFINS, the first book by photojournalist Enric Vives-Rubio.
Far from the immediacy of the news, this work, done during the pandemic, is an invitation to reflect on the territory, borders and confinement that we all went through.
15.12.2022
Presentation of “Louisville” w/ Pedro Sousa Pereira and Mário Cruz.
20.11.2022
Fujifilm workshop: Street photography with Arlindo Camacho
17.11.2022
Presentation of the book "Order 7161", by Marc Schroeder
“Order 7161” tells the story of Romanian Germans deportation through a combination of portraits, archive and contextual footage with testimonies from 40 survivors.
12.11.2022
Presentation Exodus Aveiro Fest 2022 / Jamaika Project with Bernardo Conde and José Sarmento Matos.
Consult the festival program here.
10.11.2022
Exhibition opening and launch of the book “Despedido”, by Valter Vinagre and Emília Tavares. The exhibition was sponsored by Fujifilm and Moldura Minuto.
30.10.2022
Instax workshop: Halloween - Instant photography for children
23.10.2022
Fujifilm workshop: Portrait - Studio (Module I) with João Carlos
15.10.2022
Exhibition “Living Among What’s Left Behind”, by Mário Cruz, in Almada.
The winning exhibition of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores returns to Portugal with a new format.
The exhibition was curated by Narrativa.
13.10.2022
Presentation of the book “Presentes Ausentes”, by Augusto Brázio.
8.10.2022
Exhibition “Living Among What’s Left Behind”, by Mário Cruz, in Ponta Delgada.
The winning exhibition of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores returns to Portugal with a new format.
The exhibition was curated by Narrativa.
3.10.2022
Masterclass Narrativa 22/23
Participants:
Bruno Saavedra, Inês Ventura, João Santos, Rui Costa, Rui Soares and Teresa Ribeiro.
The collective exhibition is scheduled for March 2023.
29.9.2022
Launch of Kioskzine 5.0 dedicated to the work “Na Terra”, by Ana Brígida.
For those who were not present and want to purchase a copy, you can do so here.
17.9.2022
“Where The City Ends”, by Alex Paganelli was distinguished with a Estação Imagem Award.
The project was developed in the Masterclass Narrativa 21/22.
Congratulations, Alex!
15.9.2022
Presentation of the book “Maré Baixa”
with Nuno Andrade.
10.9.2022
Fujifilm workshop: Edition/Post-Production
with Paulo Correia
6.9.2022
Narrativa is responsible for curating the exhibition “PASSADO | PRESENTE”, by Patrícia de Melo Moreira. The exhibition can be visited from September 6th to October 1st, at the Santa Maria Maior gallery, in Lisbon.
21.8.2022
3rd Day Ciclo Narrativa:
Talk Antonio Faccilongo
Kioskzine presentation
Photography Conversation with Patrícia de Melo Moreira, Pauliana Valente Pimentel and Luísa Ferreira
Launch of the book “Póvoa e Meadas” with Filipa Leite Rosa
21.8.2022
RTP (public service broadcast tv) visited Narrativa and spoke with Antonio Faccilongo about the Habibi exhibition.
View this conversation here.
20.8.2022
2nd Day Ciclo Narrativa:
Portfolio reviews with Antonio Faccilongo and Mário Cruz Habibi
FotoEvidence conference with Antonio Faccilongo
Projection of the documentary Nturudu, by Arlindo Camacho
19.8.2022
1st Day Ciclo Narrativa:
Workshop: Introduction to photography with Arlindo Camacho
Presentation of the book Laudalino da Ponte Pacheco with Blanca Martin-Calero
Opening of Narrative Masterclass 22/23 submissions
Projection of the documentary Lisboa Cidade Triste e Alegre
19.8.2022
SIC visited Narrativa and the “Habibi” exhibition.
View the reportage here.
18.8.2022
Inauguration of the exhibition “Habibi”, by Antonio Faccilongo, winner of the World Press Photo Story of the Year.
16.8.2022
Preview of Ciclo Narrativa and the “Habibi” exhibition in the Observador.
You can read it here.
23.7.2022
Guided tour to the exhibition “Do teu ombro vejo o mundo”, by João Silva, New Talents FNAC winner, and with Aliu Baio presence.
21.7.2022
NiT visited Narrativa.
16.7.2022
Opening of the exhibition 75 Dias Ucrânia, by João Porfírio, at the Antiga Lota de Portimão. The exhibition was curated by Narrativa.
14.7.2022
Talk: Emerging Photography with the New Photography Talents FNAC jury.
5.7.2022
Event IMAGin by Fujifilm.
29.6.2022
“Do teu ombro vejo o mundo” featured in Público. The project by João Silva, FNAC New Talents winner, is featured in Narrativa until August 1st.
22.6.2022
Talk “Photographing Culture” with Paulo Pimenta and Vera Marmelo.
16.6.2022
Opening of the exhibition “Do teu ombro vejo o mundo”, by João Silva, FNAC New Talents winner.
4.6.2022
Instax workshop: Children’s Day
2.6.2022
Book with author: André Paxiuta - Oil Dorado
The portrait of Alentejo disfigured by intensive monocultures.
28.5.2022
Guided tour to the Narrativa 2021/2022 exhibition with Alex Paganelli, André Dias Nobre, Filipa Leite Rosa, João Pedro Cardoso, Maria Beatriz de Vilhena and Mauro Silva.
27.5.2022
Workshop: Editorial project and book photography narrative with Cláudio Garrudo, Ph Series editorial director.
14.5.2022
Narrativa is at Time Out Lisboa.
11.5.2022
Talk with Leonel de Castro about his project “Despojos de Guerra”. A project distinguished by Estação Imagem and Pictures Of The Year International awards.
6.5.2022
Narrativa is on Público.
25.4.2022
Opening of Narrativa 2021/2022 exhibition.