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May 3,4 and 5 | NARRATIVA and Fernando Lopes Cinema | Lisbon
CICLO NARRATIVA 2024
The annual event that marks NARRATIVA's programming and celebrates the space's anniversary, returns with a new exhibition, portfolio reviews with international publishers, book presentations, debates, an open call for emerging authors, a masterclass and even a documentary.
In CICLO 2024, NARRATIVA pays special attention to the photography book and has the presence of publishers Blow UP Press, XYZ Books, Fotografika Publishing and VOID.
Over three days, NARRATIVA will be the stage for conversations, debates and book presentations with: Tommaso Protti, Leonel de Castro, Aneta Kowalczyk, Grzegorz Kosmala, Katya Bogachevskaya (RU), João Cruz, Francesca Faulin and Catarina Cesário Jesus.
CICLO 2024 also features the screening of All Beauty and Carnage, a documentary directed by Laura Poitras, which focuses on the career of artist Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family's pharmaceutical empire.
The film that NARRATIVA shows for free, in partnership with Fernando Lopes cinema, won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary category.
The 3rd edition of CICLO NARRATIVA starts with the opening of the exhibition Terra Vermelha, by Tommaso Protti, at NARRATIVA’s gallery, on May 3rd, at 7pm. The entire CICLO’s program is available here.
May 9 | Casa da Música | Porto
FUJIFILM IMAGin
NARRATIVA participates in the IMAGin event, organized by Fujifilm Portugal.
11am - Open guided tour to photography schools with the photographer and director of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz
2:30 pm - Documentary Street Photography talk with Arlindo Camacho
4:30 pm - Portfolio reviews with the photographer and director of NARRATIVA, Mário Cruz.
The full event program and registration for portfolio reviews is available here.
May 9 | 7:30pm | Casa da Música | Porto
Launch and presentation of the book, ROOF, by Mário Cruz
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.
The session closes the IMAGin event, organized by Fujifilm Portugal.
May 10 | 7pm | NARRATIVA | Lisbon
Conversation with Gustavo Minas
Brazilian photographer Gustavo Minas visits NARRATIVA and talks about his work process and the way in which street photography is a constant search in his life.
About the author:
Gustavo Minas was born in Cássia, in 1981. He studied journalism and photographic language with Carlos Moreira. In 2017, his work Rodoviária won Pictures of the Year Latin America in the category "The Future of Cities", having been exhibited in Montevideo (2018) and at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021). He published his first book, Maximum Shadow Minimal Light, in 2019, with a solo exhibition at the Freelens gallery in Hamburg. In 2022, he exhibited his Liquid Cities project at Galeria Fiesp in São Paulo. The same project was one of the finalists for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023.
May 11 and 12 | NARRATIVA | Lisbon
Workshop: Street photography with Gustavo Minas
Gustavo Minas ends his visit to Portugal with a two-day street photography workshop in Lisbon, which will take place in part at NARRATIVA. The workshop is sold out.
May 18 | 3pm | Antigo Recolhimento das Merceeiras | Lisbon
ROOF: Conversation with Mario Cruz
In this unique session, Mário Cruz talks about his work process during the long-term project already published by The New York Times and awarded by Magnum Photos Agency.
ROOF (2013-2023) culminates in an immersive exhibition and a book consisting of four pieces.
The author will discuss the different steps that led to the completion of this project in 2024, in connection with the celebrations of 25th of April 50th anniversary.
Free entry