Cadernos Portugueses is a collective project by NARRATIVA dedicated to observing contemporary Portugal through photography. It's an ongoing exercise in interpreting the territory, its transformations, and the social, political, and cultural realities that define it.

With a development horizon until 2030, the project is organized into territorial volumes, each dedicated to a region of Portugal. In each edition, several authors develop autonomous visual investigations based on a common geography, starting from their own questions, interests, and methodologies. The gathering of these works constitutes a collective work, in which different photographic approaches contribute to a plural reading of the same territory.

Each volume is an independent publication and, simultaneously, part of a growing visual archive. Photography is, in this project, a form of discovery, a space for reflection, and an instrument for constructing memory.

Cadernos Portugueses begins with a fascicle dedicated to the Alentejo region, through the observations of Bárbara Monteiro, Guillermo Vidal, José Fernandes, Mário Cruz, and Rui Costa.

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