7pm | Opening of the exhibition Permissions by Emma Hardy.

Permissions, the first monograph by British photographer Emma Hardy, is a tender document of motherhood and childhood, love and yearning, and leaving home. The images in the book are gathered and distilled from Hardy’s personal archive and span a period of 20 years. The photographs now displayed for the first time in Portugal show moments from the author's private life, interspersed with idyllic scenes that reflect Hardy's attempts to balance her creative professional life with motherhood.

Free entry.

10am - 1pm | Portfolio Review: Emma Hardy, Katya Bogachevskaya and Mário Cruz (online registration required)

10am - 1pm | Workshop: Street photography with José Sarmento Matos (limit to 10 people and online registration is required)

3pm | Conference: Emma Hardy

4:30pm | Book: Permissions by Emma Hardy

6:30pm | Talk: Opening Masterclass Narrativa 23/24 with Mário Cruz

9pm | Documentary Screening: Garry Winogrand, All Things Are Photographable

10am - 1pm | Masterclass: Emma Hardy (limit to 10 people and online registration is required)

3pm | Book: Through the Eyes of the Leopard by Rui Bernardino

4:30pm - 5:30pm | Debate: Photography Book with Fábio Miguel Roque, Rui Ribeiral and João Baptista

6:30pm | Talk: Maria Oliveira

Emma Hardy is a self-taught photographer based in London. After a professional career in acting, he embraced photography as her main occupation, producing intimate portraits of her subjects. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Telegraph, Time and Vanity Fair. The National Portrait Gallery in London has 39 of her portraits in its permanent collection.

Permissions, the first monograph by British photographer Emma Hardy, is a tender document of motherhood and childhood, love and yearning, and leaving home. The images in the book are gathered and distilled from Hardy’s personal archive and span a period of 20 years. The photographs now displayed for the first time in Portugal show moments from the author's private life, interspersed with idyllic scenes that reflect Hardy's attempts to balance her creative professional life with motherhood.

Editor and co-founder of the Preto Books project.

He started as a photojournalist and now his work lies between the personal and the documentary.

In recent years, he has individually and collectively exhibited his work both in Portugal and abroad. In addition to being selected for several festivals and awards.

His work has been regularly published and self-published, in a variety of formats of which stand out the books “Origin”, “Everything Lay Still” and more recently “Orion”.

He regularly collaborates with the Italian gallery, The Bid.

He is represented by Galeria Adorna, Porto, Portugal.

João Miguel Baptista has a degree in Sociology and has been working as a cultural programmer, social media manager, event producer and debate moderator. With a degree in Photography from Ar.Co, he is the author of the photobook My Frontiers and founder/co-organizer of the Lisbon Photobook Fair.

José Sarmento Matos is a Portuguese documentary photographer based in London and Lisbon. JSM focuses his work on long-term projects about issues of identity and inequality, and he also dedicates himself to street photography series that portray the changing social and urban landscapes through time.

He has collaborated and published his work in media such as The New York Times, New Yorker, National Geographic, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Le Monde, among others.

He completed is Masters degree in Documentary Photography in 2014 at the London College of Communication, where he has been teaching since 2016.

In 2020, he won the Estação Imagem Award with his project Abandoning the Venezuelan Dream and in 2015, along with 30 other photographers, he was selected by Magnum Photos as one of the 30 best photographers in the world under 30 years old, with his project The turn of the page.

Katya Bogachevskaya is a Russian curator and editor based in Lisbon, Portugal.

She is currently the director of the Academy of Documental and Art Photography Fotografika and is the founder of Fotografika Publishing, a publisher that aims to support young photographers with their first books.

The developed projects were distinguished internationally through the World Press Photo, Sony World Photography Award, International Photography Grant, among others.

Born in Ponte de Lima and currently resides in Porto.

Exhibits regularly since 2011, in Portugal and abroad. In 2022, she participated in the exhibition NATURE FUTURE - Young European photography, organized by the French Presidency of the EU Council, in Prague and Berlin.

In 2021, as part of the Bienal de Fotografia do Porto (Photography Biennial of Porto), she participated in the exhibition Sustentar with the work De Vagar o Mar, shown at Fotofestiwal in Lodz, Poland and at Cooperativa Árvore, in Porto, among other spaces.

In 2020, she obtained the Sustentar creation grant, Ci.clo Plataforma de Fotografia, and edited the book Save the fire for low light days by Scopio Editions.

In 2019, she participated in the Bienal de Fotografia do Porto (Photography Biennial of Porto) and in the exhibition Now, for the future, at the Open Eye Gallery, in Liverpool. In the same year, she won the Novos Talentos FNAC award, was a finalist for the ESPY 2019 photography award and received an honorable mention at the 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award.

Her work is also present in the MAR-Museu de Arte do Rio collection, the Municipal Art Collection of Porto and private collections.

Mário Cruz is an independent photographer dedicated to themes related to human rights and social injustice.

Double World Press Photo winner with the projects Talibes Modern Day Slaves and Living Among What’s Left Behind.

He is the founder of Narrativa, a meeting point in Lisbon that promotes photography as a form of expression and communication.

Rui Bernardino [Beja, 1979] is licensed in Veterinary Medicine.

Currently, he is Clinical Director of the Zoological and Veterinary Directorate of the Lisbon Zoo. As a veterinary advisor for the EEP [Ex-situ Program] of the EAZA Persian-Leopard [European Association of Zoos and Aquaria], he has directed work in the conservation of the Persian Leopard [Panthera pardus tulliana].

In parallel, he has been developing his work as a photographer, having been exclusively dedicated to the Through the Eyes of the Leopard Project since 2016.

Rui Ribeiral studied photography at Ar.Co.

He is a photo editor and curator.

He is the Photo Book Corner bookshop director. With a careful selection of contemporary photography books and monographs, Photo Book Corner is one of the main online bookstores in Europe.

Fujifilm Portugal is a brand that supports the development of Portuguese contemporary photography. It is present in Narrativa, Novos Talentos FNAC and Prémio Estação Imagem, among other initiatives.

The Narrativa Masterclass is the origin of Narrativa.

Since 2018, Mário Cruz has accompanied working groups in the development of authorial and documentary projects. In three editions it has more than 10 distinctions.

Photo Book Corner was born in 2012 with a careful selection of contemporary photography books and monographs and, since then, has become one of the main online bookstores in Europe. In 2020, it opened a physical store in the heart of Lisbon.

A portfolio review offers feedback from an outsider viewpoint, support in editing/revising a project/photographic work and offers practical advice for possible next steps, either in the continuation of the project or in the promotion of the work.

Portfolios can be presented on paper or in digital format.

Each participant has the possibility to present projects or a set of images that reflect their work.

Maximum number of photographs: 20

Each reading lasts approximately 20 minutes.

Online registration required. Portfolio reviews are free and will be held in order of arrival.

A Narrativa promoted workshop: Street Photography with photographer José Sarmento Matos. In this workshop, the author accompanies the participants on a walk through the Alvalade neighborhood, sharing his work process in this context.

Limit: 10 participants

Online registration required.

The workshop is free.

Photographer Emma Hardy presents her different works and discusses her creative process. In this private talk, participants will have access to how the author plans and executes her projects.

Limit: 10 participants

Price: 50€

Payment by bank transfer.