SıHHALTER OLSUN (GOOD LUCK)
Aslı Özçelik
NARRATIVA

Sıhhalter Olsun (Good Luck) tells the story of the author’s mother, a young woman from a small village in the northeast of Turkey, who emigrated to Germany at the age of 20.

This work focuses, in particular, on her past, while at the same time 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 those who consult our library and is now the basis for this exhibition.

DESPOJOS DE GUERRA
Leonel de Castro
Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto

Despojos de Guerra is an essay and also a memorial collection, which focuses on the wounded veterans of the Colonial War (1961-1974).

The exhibition and the book are the culmination of a long-term work by photojournalist Leonel de Castro, who traveled to different territories documenting the past and present of Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Angola.

NARRATIVA has followed the work since its initial phase, now taking on the co-editing of the book and the curatorship of the exhibition that will be on display at the Centro Português de Fotografia, in Porto.

Despojos de Guerra was distinguished, nationally and internationally, by Estação Imagem Awards and Pictures Of The Year International.

TUDO É INCÓMODO QUANDO A TERRA TREME
Joana Dionísio
NARRATIVA

NARRATIVA, through its relevant partnership with FNAC New Talents award, displays in its gallery the 2024 winning work in the photography category.

Tudo é incómodo quando a terra treme, 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 in the synopsis of this 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.

TERRA VERMELHA
Tommaso Protti
NARRATIVA

Terra Vermelha, Picture of The Year International award and the Carmignac Foundation award winning work.

Tommaso Protti 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.

Protti’s work results in a dense and disorienting journey through a region ravaged by conflict, uncovering stories about land appropriations, forest fires and gangs.

Deforestation, unregulated development, pollution - all these layers are driven by the same causes: poverty, institutions permeable to corruption and limitless interests.

More than in other places, in the Amazon it is clear that the 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.

ROOF
Mário Cruz
Antigo Recolhimento das Merceeiras
Rua Augusto Rosa, 13, Lisbon

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.

ROOF was published by the New York Times and distinguished by the Magnum Photos agency.

MASTERCLASS NARRATIVA 23/24
NARRATIVA

Masterclass NARRATIVA 23/24 reveals the results of its 5th edition in a collective exhibition that covers themes such as death, identity, territory and housing.

The authors selected for this edition are: Bárbara Monteiro, Elisa Freitas, Emanuel Amorim, Guillermo Vidal, Maria Abranches and Rafaela Araújo.

Masterclass NARRATIVA has taken place annually since 2018 and brings together authors with the aim of creating projects in which photography is explored as a form of communication and expression.

The Masterclass is mentored by photographer and founder of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz.

JAMAIKA
José Sarmento Matos
NARRATIVA

JAMAIKA follows part of the history of Bairro da Jamaica – a community in Seixal made up of around 700 inhabitants, often racialized and marginalized –, recounting their struggle for decent housing.

The exhibition, along with the book JAMAIKA, co-edited by NARRATIVA, is the last chapter of a documentary work developed over three years in this location, by Sarmento Matos.

The work portrays, in an intimate way, the life of a community made up mainly of immigrants from former Portuguese colonies – Angola, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe – and Portuguese people of African descent.

PORTUGAL LIVRE 1974 - 2024
Restauradores, Lisbon

In 1974, the editorial O Século published a publication almost exclusively dedicated to photographs by 20 photographers about “Revolução das Flores” (the flower revolution): Abel Fonseca, Alberto Peixoto, Alfredo Cunha, António Xavier, Armando Vidal, Carlos Gil, Correia dos Santos, Eduardo Baião, Eduardo Gageiro, Fernando Baião, Francisco Ferreira, Inácio Ludgero, João Ribeiro, José Antunes, José Tavares, Lobo Pimentel Jr., Miranda Castela, Novo Ribeiro, Rui Pacheco and Teresa Monserrat.

These photographs now serve as a motto for another collective made up of young photographers born years after the 25th of April who, through their images, reflect on today's democratic country through their images.

Ana Brígida, Bruno Colaço, Diana Tinoco, Filipe Amorim, Igor Martins, João Porfírio, José Fernandes, José Sarmento Matos, José Sena Goulão, Mariline Alves, Patrícia de Melo Moreira, Pedro Rocha, Ricardo Lopes and Rodrigo Antunes provided their images, thus contributing to raising awareness of the need for free, plural, independent and valued (photo)journalism.

UMA AZEITONA BORDADA EM AZUL
Rui Costa
Galeria da Estação, Braga

Uma Azeitona Bordada em Azul addresses themes such as loneliness and suicide, allowing the public to reflect on the reality of an increasingly pressing issue in Portuguese society.

This work, exhibited within the scope of Encontros da Imagem, was developed in the Masterclass Narrativa 22/23 and distinguished with the 2023 FNAC New Talents award.

OMNIS
Mário Cruz, Inês Ventura, Francisco Romão Pereira, Rodrigo Vargas e Maria Beatriz de Vilhena
NARRATIVA

Everything, everyone, totally. This is how, in a free translation from Latin, the title chosen for OMNIS can be understood, in which five of the founding members of NARRATIVA present different, but complementary, views on how photography relates to religion, in the ambit of the World Youth Day, which took place in Lisbon, between August 1st and 6th, 2023.

Just like the common faith of the millions of believers who flock to Lisbon for World Youth Day, the five authors share a photographic practice governed by collective codes that, in a stripped-down way, can be analogous to what unites believers around religion. Each individual has a way of relating to it and putting their faith into practice. The same occurs with the authorial vision of the photographers represented in the exhibition: each one recreates a reality subject to countless readings. Everything, everyone is able to observe and reflect.

UKRAINE: A WAR CRIME
FotoEvidence
NARRATIVA

Ukraine: A War Crime aims to draw public attention to the need to reflect on what this conflict is and its deeper impacts.

It does so by showing the work of some of the world's best photojournalists and highlighting the work of several Ukrainian photojournalists from the homonymous book published by FotoEvidence which brings together the work of 93 photojournalists from 29 countries.

Daniel Berehulak, Fabio Bucciarelli, Ron Haviv, Eric Bouvet, David Guttenfelder, Finbarr O'Reilly, multiple World Press Photo winners, are some of the authors with photographs featured in the exhibition, highlighting the work of Carol Guzy, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes, and Evgeniy Maloletka, Ukrainian photojournalist winner of the World Press Photo of the Year and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize.

UMA AZEITONA BORDADA EM AZUL
Rui Costa
NARRATIVA

Uma Azeitona Bordada em Azul is the essay by photographer Rui Costa after his grandmother's suicide attempt, in early 2022. An abrupt event, synonymous with disruption and restlessness. A limit that was reached, saturated and dense.

This was the first time that Uma Azeitona Bordada em Azul was shown in full, allowing the public to reflect on the reality of an increasingly pressing issue in Portuguese society.

The work was distinguished with the FNAC New Talents 2023 award.

PERMISSIONS
Emma Hardy
NARRATIVA

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 this exhibition 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.

MASTERCLASS NARRATIVA 22/23
NARRATIVA

The Masterclass NARRATIVA 22/23 exhibition reveals the projects developed in the 4th edition of the NARRATIVA.

Annually, a collective of authors is formed that will work over 4 months with the photographer, Mário Cruz, with the aim of creating documentary and authorial work.

NARRATIVA Masterclass has more than 10 distinctions and has already revealed 20 emerging names in Portuguese photography.

In this edition, the works of Bruno Saavedra, Inês Ventura, João Santos, Rui Costa, Rui Soares and Teresa Ribeiro delve into various themes such as gender identity, population desertification, territorial limits and suicide.

SAFE HOUSE
Lea Thijs
NARRATIVA

Safe House, by South African-Belgian photographer Lea Thijs, is an authorial work centered on her father, recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

“Dismantling the walls of my house in order to examine the foundations of my family, I wanted to photograph my father, who was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Being able to name to his condition and explain his patterns of behaviour after 20 years has enabled him to construct a sustainable environment around himself. Now under medication, I felt it was time for me to document his home in South Africa and revisit the memories associated with his childhood in Brussels. Safe House, a title taken from The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz's, is an open door to exploring my relationship with him.” Lea Thijs

DESPEDIDO
Valter Vinagre
NARRATIVA

Despedido presents photographs of the old Feira Popular de Lisboa, after its closure.

The symbolism of the place, as a democratization of the recreational space, and the enormous controversy that arose from the city council's decision to proceed with its deactivation, justify this last look at the ruins of what was then the Fair.

As he wandered through the vast space, Valter Vinagre found, among the various rubble, a set of records of the employees of the company Divertimentos Mecânicos Águia.

This fortuitous encounter gives a new and complementary approach to that place.

HABIBI
Antonio Faccilongo
NARRATIVA

Habibi, which means 'my love' in Arabic and is also the name of the exhibition, "tells love stories against the backdrop of one of the longest and most complicated conflicts in modern history", the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Winner - World Press Photo Story of the Year.

DO TEU OMBRO VEJO O MUNDO
João Silva
NARRATIVA

EXHIBITION NEW PHOTOGRAPHY TALENT FNAC 2022
João Silva's subtle essay enters into the intimacy of Aliu Baio (blind in one eye until he was 4 years old; blind in both shortly after) to show us the power of the latency of representation and how at the slightest opportunity this predisposition for the image finds its way to appear.

MASTERCLASS NARRATIVA 21/22
NARRATIVA

The exhibition Masterclass NARRATIVA 21/22 shows the projects developed over 4 months in the Masterclass.

Authors: Alex Paganelli, André Dias Nobre, Filipa Leite Rosa, João Pedro Cardoso, Maria Beatriz de Vilhena, Mauro Silva