The jury recognized Nuno Andrade's project “PicNic” for its remarkable ability to transform a peripheral and seemingly marginal territory into a space of revelation and belonging. At Ponta dos Corvos, between the Tagus estuary and the city, the artist finds a symbolic confluence where gestures of freedom, coexistence, and collective celebration are reflected.

Without resorting to artifice, Nuno Andrade constructs a visual essay that prioritizes authenticity and spontaneous gestures. Through refined and attentive photography, he gives visibility to communities that are often portrayed under the sign of deprivation, exclusion, or marginalization. Here, however, these same communities appear in open view, in dialogue with the Lisbon skyline — a city both distant and close, a reflection and counterpoint.

The chosen territory, Ponta dos Corvos, also known as Praia dos Tesos, is more than a setting; it is a place of communion and daily resistance. Its geography — a strip of land stretching across the Tagus River — functions as a metaphor for a threshold: between the center and the margin, between the visible and the invisible, between the city and the river. It is in this interstice that the photographer finds his subject, capturing the vibrancy of a space where conviviality transforms into an expression of freedom and belonging.

“PicNic” reveals an approach of rare subtlety, in which the documentary gaze intersects with the symbolic dimension of photography. Nuno Andrade's work asserts itself as a reflection on the possibility of community and the construction of a shared culture, on the margins of a Lisbon in constant transformation, establishing itself as a singular project capable of transforming a seemingly peripheral territory into a space of an alive and contemporary narrative.