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.