23.03.2024
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.