Far Away From The Place Where You Are

Far Away From The Place Where You Are

by David egan

This work is a response to my own personal anxieties and desires to be alone. It is about a search and struggle to find a safe space. It is about home, it is about my love of nature and want to be in it, it is about connecting to something, it is about loss, it is about repetition, it is calm, it is about life and death, it is about a destination.

Over time I have come to realize that the area that I have chosen to return to and photograph represents those feelings for not just me but many people. All of the photographs from this series were made in and around the Salton Sea, in Southern California. Once a bustling vacation destination of the 1960’s and 1970’s, it has slowly become a place that is struggling to survive. The sea itself is evaporating and filled with dead fish and birds. There is a smell in the air. There are unruly people that want to be left alone. There are homes and structures that have been abandoned. It is occupied by a lot of people looking to avoid societal norms as well as those who just can’t afford to live anywhere else. It is one of the hottest places in the country. It is an unstable desert landscape. It is beautiful.

Bio

David Egan is an American photographer raised in the Washington metropolitan area now residing in Los Angeles, California. He creates long-term bodies of work focusing on the changing American landscape. Egan is primarily known for his large format long exposure color night landscape work in the state of Nevada. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States.

Website: https://www.egandavid.com/

Instagram: http://instagram.com/baronegan

The mooring island

The mooring island

by Bartolomeo Rossi

I traveled to Iceland driven by a force that carried me north to try to understand why in a landscape completely foreign to me, I felt at home, protected by the walls of an imaginary refuge. Without giving me answers, I realized that this land has managed to ignite the sparks of memory in me, stimulating my unconscious to recognize places and objects as familiar even though I met them for the first time on my journey. So traces have become signs, objects have become childhood memories and an unknown land has become home.

This is the story of my relationship with the island; land of "ancient solitude" as Manganelli defines it on his book Isola Pianeta, it is this feeling of solitude, not sought but somehow necessary, that carried me along the endless coasts of the west fjords.

The path I trace guides me inside this refuge made of land and sea, finally aware that home has never been so close.

Bio

Bartolomeo Rossi (1993) is an Italian photographer. From 2017 to 2019 he attended the master's degree in contemporary image at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, which ended with the acquisition of his diploma project Camera Mia by the foundation’ collection. In 2015 he meets Iceland and his landscapes, which lead him to return to the island for the following five years. The project The mooring island develops from these trips.

His research has always been centered on the landscape and on the intimate and private perception of it, with a particular interest in the roots that bind an individual to his imaginary.

Website: https://www.bartolomeorossi.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bartolomeeo/

Dream Moons

Dream Moons

by Yurian Quintanas Nobel

A full moon was watching me in my sleep, but I could not see her in my dream. She traveled throught the spaces to pull me into her world. She found me alone and caught me unprepared.

Her gravitational pull was effecting everything, the way it effects the oceans. Although everything looked unestable and confusing, I knew that from this moment on she was in custody of my being.

Unreachable sunny day outside. A thin mesh kept it far. I felt lost and dazed. Something happened in the past. Why did the sun looked so dark inside?

My house looked like a maze, a tenebrous shelter where nobody could enter but that was harder to leave. I walked through its corridors and up and down the stairs, but I couldn’t reach the exit. Darkness everywhere.

Fear unsettled me as a deadly poison, but I knew it was a subtle and breakable trap. I just had to follow the traces that time had left behind and repair its damage.

Everything around me was fading away, like if somebody had invoked a devastating mechanism to erase all that I harbored in my brain.

A distant squeak, muffled breath of a starving beast. This was the place where everything started, but now nobody was there. I left the most essential of my self and fled with the moon to settle somewhere else. An unknown state of silence and dust.

Bio

Yurian Quintanas Nobel was born in Amsterdam in 1983, but he grew in Catalunya (Spain), where he is currently living. His personal photographic projects are focused on using photography to approach the intangible, the hidden side of life, and explore its mysteries.

Yurian’s works has been exhibited internationally and has been chosen for awards like the SFR Jeunes Talents for ParisPhoto (2014), the Open Call award of the Encontros da Imagem (2015) and the selection as LensCulture Emerging Talent (2018) among others.

Website: https://yurianquintanas.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yurian_quintanas/

Book: https://void.photo/dreammoons

Eure

Eure

by Ben Osborne

Eure is an ongoing project that has grown out of a number of visits to the department of Eure in Normandy in Northwestern France. The project focuses on the landscape and rural villages within the department.

Bio

Ben Osborne is a photographer who lives in East Sussex, England. 

Website: https://www.benjaminosborne.co/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/b.e.n.osborne/

Walk by day because night is ours

Walk by day because night is ours

by Alejandra Vacuii

Galicia, a Spanish region in the Northwest, is a territory of myths and superstitions that go back to the night of time. One of these legends is La Santa Compaña, a procession of souls led by a living person with a cross who goes out every night through the woods announcing death. There is only one way to get rid of their curse: meet another living person and give them the cross. In the sepulchral silence that occurs as it appears, it can only be heard from time to time some soul screaming "walk by day because the night is ours!".

Today, pessimism and hopelessness seem to have settled in Western societies as a response to the economic, health, ecological and moral crises that we have been chaining for years. As hauntology predicted, there is a general feeling that the future has been cancelled: we can no longer imagine a better future, the idea of progress has disappeared, and instead of feeling that the world is improving it seems that we are headed towards disaster without warning. The fear floats in the air as if something terrible is going to happen, is the end of the world near?

Walk by day because the night is ours tells the metaphorical story of this omen. Through the legend of La Santa Compaña, which has been a warning that death was near when the Galician people still believed in the supernatural, this project tells us about this pessimistic hunch that is contaminating our current feeling. Something dark, mournful and terrible is about to happen. Like the people who were with La Santa Compaña in the middle of a dark and silent forest, we are being warned of the arrival of death. 

Bio

Alejandra Vacuii (1987) is a Spanish visual artist based in A Coruña (Spain). She is graduated in Artistic Photography and has completed her MA in Photographic Creation at Escuela Lens where she was awarded with a scholarship in 2021. In her work, she's looking for a poetic space where she can express herself through dense and mysterious images. Her projects revolve around abstract sensations and emotions such as loss, melancholy, nostalgia or anxiety. 

She has participated in multiple exhibitions in Europe since 2009 (Istanbul, Berlin, Madrid). Her work has been reviewed in numerous digital media (Fisheye Magazine, Phroom Platform, C41 Magazine, Sola Journal). She has been selected to participate in photo festivals such as Getxophoto, Descubrimientos PHotoESPAÑA, SCAN Tarragona or Imaginària. She has publish her work in different collective publications and recently her project La Mala Fortuna was published by UFCA Collective (2023) as a printed work in the fanzine Fotofobia. 

Website: https://www.alejandravacuii.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lamalafortuna/

Our Hidden Room

Our Hidden Room

by Mohamed Hassan

"Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness." 

Caruth, C.

Our Hidden Room.

As an artist with dual nationality, this project explores my identity as part of an ever-expanding diasporic community based in Wales.  I draw inspiration from the memory of my complex yet loving relationship with my father. I reflect on his own personal struggle with bipolar disorder, made clear to me by his erratic, reclusive, behaviour and his obsession with the small dark room, hidden within our family home.

Through my lens, I seek to explore the complexity of the human experience and the legacy of a traumatic and uncertain childhood, of living within a fragile environment and the desire to escape memories. My personal conflict about belonging is represented through the people I meet and the lands that I explore, both in Egypt and Wales. The constant feeling of displacement and questions of identity are forever present.

Bio

Originally from Alexandria, I have been living and working in Pembrokeshire, in west Wales in the UK since 2007, graduating with a 1st class honours degree in Photography from Carmarthen School of Art in 2016. I have been shortlisted for several awards and competitions and my work has been exhibited at the prestigious Mission Gallery, the Waterfront National Museum in Wales the Trajectory Showcase Competition Exhibition in Shoreditch, London, Nova Cymru 2018 and had a portrait included in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait exhibition 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

More recently I am exhibiting 4 images in 'Facing Britain', curated by Ralph Goertz at Kunsthalle Darmstadt Museum Goch - touring to Koslar and Krakow in 2022. In Wales, the Many Voices, One Nation 2' supported by the Senedd and exhibiting at Ffotogallery included 11 of my images and 5 images at Oriel Davies in the Responding to Rembrandt exhibition.

Website: https://www.mohamedhassanphotography.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mohamed_hassan.photo/

CHAMADA ABERTA | Landscapes of Care. Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices

The Campo di Marte, La Giudecca, Venice, 2018. IACP (Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari, 1983). Courtesy: Jorge Marum

CHAMADA 1º MANUSCRITO - NOVO PRAZO DE ENTREGA - 31 março

Landscapes of Care. Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices

Editores: Maria Neto (UBI-FAUP), Paz Nuñez Martí (UAH-ETSAM)
Editores Convidados: Igea Troiani (LSBU), Joan Mac Donald (U. Chile), Jorge Tárrago Mingo (ETSAUN)
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A Revista Sophia está atualmente a aceitar o 1º manuscrito / artigo completo para o seu terceiro ciclo temático "Landscapes of Care" centrado na produção de habitação de promoção pública “Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices”.

Prazo de entrega do 1º manuscrito: 31 de março de 2024
Prazo para o 2º manuscrito: 1 de setembro de 2024

Prazo para apresentação na conferência: 10 de setembro de 2024
Conferência Internacional (dtbc): 15 e 16 de setembro de 2024

Prazo para o 3º Manuscrito (Revista): 5 de outubro de 2024
Data de publicação (tbc): até dezembro de 2024

O terceiro ciclo temático de Sophia Journal "Landscapes of Care", aborda investigações, projectos, experiências e práticas fotográficas e visuais contemporâneas que se preocupam sobre o modo como a arquitectura, entendida num sentido amplo, pode ajudar a curar as relações entre o homem e habitat, bem como a crise sócio-ambiental que o planeta vive.

O conceito de Landscapes of Care tem sido cada vez mais adoptado em diversas áreas do conhecimento, desde a geografia da saúde até às artes e arquitectura, transposta aqui como a acção do estado social no sector da habitação, que gera uma relação de cuidado entre o estado e sociedade, enquadrada nos direitos económicos, sociais e culturais. Neste call interessam-nos investigações e práticas visuais que nos ajudem a compreender e documentar procedimentos (formas de atuar?) fora das narrativas dominantes, que promovam o direito à habitação, mas também o direito à cidade, convocando a cidade e o território como organismos vivos e inclusivos, reconhecendo a importância dos recursos públicos e das respostas sociais, os processos participativos e a co-responsabilização, para a promoção de uma sustentabilidade global.

Este número ao focar-se na produção de habitação de promoção pública, permite centrar as contribuições numa leitura dinâmica da cidade condicionante e condicionada pela tipologia habitacional. Associando arquitectura, habitação de cariz público, habitat e planeamento urbano convocam-se trabalhos que explorem uma narrativa interpretativa sobre a habitação e quem nela habita, projectos piloto de intervenções em comunidades-de-estudo, capazes de gerar visões estratégicas sobre o possível futuro da cidade e do território, da habitação e das vidas que (trans)forma, nesta relação ontológica entre a casa e o Homem.

A habitação de promoção pública deveria ser um exemplo de práticas inovadoras quer de projecto quer de desenvolvimento urbano e territorial, no entanto a maioria das intervenções realizadas através de políticas de habitação ou de acções específicas e isoladas sobre habitação pública, não são suficientemente conhecidas e/ou disseminadas quer pelas autoridades quer por parte dos técnicos e investigadores, não chegando a produzir conhecimento alargado e debate. O nosso objectivo é dar a conhecer estas práticas que cruzam teoria e acção, e explorar de que modo a fotografia, os levantamentos, testemunhos e os documentários podem ser utilizados como instrumentos significativos de investigação nas dimensões socioeconómica, política, histórica, técnica e ecológica da habitação social, da cidade e do território, desvelando boas práticas e modelos a estudar. Lançando um olhar crítico sobre o fazer cidade a partir do seu programa dominante - a habitação - pretendemos também estabelecer relações de continuidade e/ou ruptura, alinhamentos e/ ou desfasamentos entre habitação e pensamento urbanístico, sociopolítico e arquitectónico quer no quadro nacional como no internacional.

Nesta convocatória de artigos e ensaios visuais para este número da revista Sophia Journal Vol. 9 | Landscapes of Care. Social housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices convidamos os autores a submeterem trabalhos teóricos, registo de experiências em programas de habitação social, e ensaios visuais sobre iniciativas ou programas piloto em habitação pública, onde a fotografia, o registo gráfico, o testemunho e o documentário estão presentes de forma significativa. Projetos descritivos, analíticos e interpretativos, capazes de oferecer uma percepção única e um novo entendimento sobre a habitação, os seus moradores e a cidade, bem como a sua capacidade de responder e reflectir as condições locais e ser elemento de coesão socio-territorial. Projectos que são territórios críticos capazes de expandir a nossa compreensão sobre a arquitectura e paisagem social, em termos da sua linguagem, localização, moradores e vizinhança.

Interessam-nos também trabalhos fotográficos e cinematográficos que nos permitam reconhecer a dimensão social da arquitectura e da paisagem e compreender a arquitectura como fez Alvar Aalto, “as a great synthetic process of combining thousands of definite human functions” juntamente com o enfoque de Donna Haraway na interacção humana e não humana - novas “naturecultures” capazes de contribuir para uma maior compreensão do potencial da arquitectura e da paisagem do social para um equilíbrio e uma interacção mais ecológica e sustentável entre a arquitectura e a natureza.

Instruções para a apresentação de propostas
Para apresentar a sua proposta, envie um resumo de 500 palavras (incluindo referências e um máximo de cinco imagens) e uma breve biografia de cada autor (até 70 palavras cada) até 1 de dezembro de 2023. A submissão de resumos é feita através da nossa plataforma OJS, registando-se e submetendo em: https://www.up.pt/revistas/index.php/sophia/index

Os autores seleccionados serão notificados até ao dia 11 de janeiro de 2024 e deverão entregar um artigo completo (entre 3000 e 6000 palavras) ou um ensaio visual (comprimento entre 6 e 8 páginas, mais texto entre 500 e 1000 palavras) até ao dia 11 de março de 2024.

Note-se que todos os artigos teóricos serão sujeitos a revisão por pares. As outras modalidades de submissões que publicamos (ensaios visuais, entrevistas e recensões críticas) não estão sujeitas a revisão por pares.

A aceitação de um resumo em qualquer uma destas modalidades não garante a publicação.

BIOGRAPHIES

IGEA TROIANI
Igea Troiani (PhD) is a Professor of Architecture and Head of Division for Architecture at London South Bank University (LSBU). She is an architect and filmmaker with almost 30 years-experience of working in a university, architecture practice and universities gained in the UK (London, Oxford and Plymouth), China (Suzhou), Germany (Münster) and Australia (Brisbane and Melbourne). Her three key areas of research are 1) the social production of architecture; 2) architecture and media (focusing on publishing and filmmaking) and 3) architectural labour, neoliberalism and sustainable ecologies. She studies architecture from transdisciplinary perspectives to determine the conditions in which architecture is, and architects are, socially, culturally and economically produced. Her books include The Politics of Making (2017/2007); Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture (2017); Architecture Filmmaking (2019); Visual Research Methods in Architecture (2021); and Spaces of Tolerance (2021), and Work-life Balance in Architecture (in press).

JOAN MAC DONALD
Joan MacDonald is an architect and expert in housing and urban planning, especially in vulnerable contexts. She was the first architect to head the Housing Department at the UC School of Architecture and the first woman to assume the position of Undersecretary of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning (1990-94). Throughout her career, she has fulfilled different urban and housing management leadership roles. Among them, she was a consultant for the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division of ECLAC, and between 2000 and 2014, she directed the Latin American Service, African and Asian Popular Housing (SELAVIP). From there, she promoted the execution of more than 500 housing and neighborhood improvement projects for poor urban communities in the developing world.

JORGE TÁRRAGO MINGO
Jorge Tárrago Mingo. Registered Architect. PhD. University of Navarra (2005). He is a Professor of Architecture and collaborates in research and editorial initiatives. He is Director of RA, Revista de Arquitectura. He has published articles in ARQ, Future Anterior, Bauwelt, Rita, PPA, Revista 180, Arquitetura rivista, ZARCH, and he is a regular reviewer for some others. He is author, co-author or editor of several books and book chapters, the most recent being Aguinaga, Echaide, Sobrini. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (Pamplona, 2020), awarded at the XV BEAU, and the chapter 'A Certain Praise for Drawings' in Approaching Architecture. Three Fields, One Discipline (New York & Oxon, 2023). In 2015 he co-chaired the internacional conference Inter: Photography and Architecture (2016) and the four volumes with the proceedings that were awarded at the XIV BEAU. He founded alcolea+tárrago in 2005. His work has been awarded in more than 20 national and international competitions, published in many magazines and books, and has received several architecture prizes for built work.

MARIA NETO
Maria Neto is an architect, invited assistant professor at DECA-UBI, and researcher at CEAU-FAUP and ICHaB-ETSAM. PhD in Architecture (EA-UAH+ICHaB-ETSAM, 2022) with an individual research scholarship from FTC, worthy of nomination for the Prémio Extraordinário UAH, holds post-graduation in Development of Human Settlements in the Third World (ICHaB/ETSAM) and professional practice in Humanitarian Shelter Coordination (IFRC/UNCHR/Oxford Brookes University). She has collaborated with the UNHCR and the BRC supporting refugees in Kenya and the UK. She was the recipient of the Távora Award, a guest speaker representing Portugal at the 17th International Exhibition of Architecture from the Venice Biennale and selected for the anthology of the Lisbon University Triennial Award. In addition to teaching at DECA-UBI and practicing in her architectural studio with architect Jorge Marum, she has collaborated with IHRU on the program “Da Habitação ao Habitat” within the framework of the New Generation of Housing Policies.

PAZ NUNEZ MARTI
Paz Núñez-Martí (Madrid, 1971) PhD in Architecture (Univ. Politécnica Madrid, 1998); Technical Specialist in Heritage Recovery and Rehabilitation (Univ. Politécnica Madrid, 2000) and Technical Specialist in Development Cooperation (Univ. Politécnica Madrid, 2005). PhD in Architecture (Univ. Politecnica Madrid, 2016) and currently Phd from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Univ. Alcalá (2002-act). She coordinates the area of Habitat and Territory of the Research Group applied to development cooperation COOPUAH. She has been Technical Advisor to the Madrid City Council for the shanty town settlement of Cañada Real (2015-2019) and currently conducts applied research on spatial justice, urbanism and citizenship from various civic platforms with political impact in the city of Madrid.

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Mycophilia

Mycophilia

by Nika Sandler

In "The Romance of the Fungus World", researchers Rolfe write that in literature, folklore and science, fungus are often associated with pestilence, death and decay, and their physicality appears creepy and repulsive. In this series, I move away from the mycophobic images of fungoid entities in terms of conventional ideas and show their ability to be creative and hospitable. I depict fungus as being like unearthly creatures, as in myths and theories about their cosmic origin.

Bio

Nika Sandler is an artist working with photography and text. She explores the themes of human and non-human gaze, gender, pleasure, creepy and disgusting. She was published in the magazines i-D, Libération, Der Greif, Phroom Platform, Calvert Journal, Metal Magazine, L'Oeil de la Photographie, BROAD, Bird in Flight, FK Magazine, F-STOP, Float Magazine, ect. She is also the winner of the Small File Photo Festival 2023 organized by The Photographers' Gallery.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nikasandler/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nika.sandler/?hl=pt

OPEN CALL | Landscapes of Care. Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices

The Campo di Marte, La Giudecca, Venice, 2018. IACP (Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari, 1983). Courtesy: Jorge Marum

CALL 1st MANUSCRIPT - NEW DEADLINE - 31 MARCH

Landscapes of Care. Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices

Editors: Maria Neto (UBI-FAUP), Paz Nuñez Martí (UAH-ETSAM)
Guest Editors: Igea Troiani (LSBU), Joan Mac Donald (U. Chile), Jorge Tárrago Mingo (ETSAUN)
Open Call Video Presentation

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Sophia Journal is currently accepting 1st Manuscripts for its third thematic cycle “Landscapes of Care” focused on “Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices”

1st Manuscript deadline: 31 of March 2024
2st Manuscript deadline: 1 of September 2024

Deadline for Conference Presentation: 10 of September 2024
International Conference (dtbc): 15 and 16 of September 2024

3rd Manuscript deadline (Journal): 5 of October 2024
Publication date (tbc): by December 2024

Sophia Journal's third thematic, “Landscapes of Care”, addresses research, projects, experiences, and contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture, understood in a broad sense, can help to heal the relationships between man and habitat, as well as the socio-environmental crisis that the planet is experiencing.

The concept of “Landscapes of Care” has increasingly been adopted by diverse areas of study, from health geography to the arts and architecture, transposed here as the action of the social state in the housing sector, which generates a relationship of care between the state and society, framed by economic, social, and cultural rights. In this call, we are interested in investigations and visual narratives that help us understand and document practices outside the dominant narratives, which promote the right to housing but also the right to the city, calling on the city and the territory as living and inclusive organisms, recognizing the importance of public resources and social responses, participatory processes, and co- responsibility, for global sustainability.

This issue, focusing on public housing, allows contributions to be centered on a dynamic reading of the city that is conditional and conditioned by housing typology. Combining architecture, public housing, habitat, and urban planning, we are convoking works that explore an interpretative narrative about housing and those who live in it, pilot projects with communities of practice capable of generating strategic visions about the possible future of city and territory, housing and the lives it (trans)forms, in this ontological relationship between the Man and house.

Public housing should be an example of innovative practices, whether in design or urban and territorial development. However, most interventions carried out through housing policies or specific and isolated actions on public housing need to be sufficiently known and disseminated by authorities, technicians, and researchers to produce broad knowledge and debate. Our objective is to make known and amplify these practices that intertwine theory and action and explore how photography, surveys, testimonies, and documentaries can be used as significant research instruments in the socio-economic, political, historical, technical, and ecological dimensions of social housing, the city and the territory, revealing good practices and models to study. Launching a critical look at city-making from its dominant program - housing - we also intend to establish relationships of continuity and/or rupture, alignments, and/or gaps between housing and urban, socio-political, and architectural thought nationally and internationally.

In this call for articles and visual essays for this issue of Sophia Journal Vol. 9 | Landscapes of Care. Social housing across multiple geographies: Crossing theories and practices, we invite authors to submit theoretical work, records of experiences in social housing programs, and visual essays on initiatives or pilot programs in public housing, where photography, graphic recording, testimony, and the documentary are present in a significant way and allow adding a differentiating layer for its understanding and recording. Descriptive, analytical, and interpretative projects offer a unique perception and new knowledge about housing, its residents, and the city, and its ability to respond to and reflect local conditions and be an element of socio-territorial cohesion. Projects that are critical territories capable of expanding our understanding of architecture and social landscape in terms of their language, location, residents, and neighborhood.

We are also interested in photography and film work that allows us to acknowledge the social and political dimension of architecture and landscape and understand architecture as Alvar Aalto did, “as a great synthetic process of combining thousands of definite human functions,” together with Donna Haraway’s focus on human and non-human interaction - new “nature cultures” capable of contributing to a greater understanding of the potential of architecture and landscape for a more ecological and sustainable balance and interaction between architecture and nature.

Submission instructions

To submit your proposal, please send a 500-word abstract (including references and a maximum of five images) and a short bio for each author (up to 70 words each) by the 1st of December, 2023. Submission of abstracts is done through our OJS platform by registering and submitting at: https://www.up.pt/revistas/index.php/sophia/index   Selected authors will be notified by the 11 of January 2024 and will be expected to deliver a full paper (between 3000 to 6000 words) or a visual essay (length between 6 to 8 pages, plus text between 500 to 1000 words) by the 11 of March 2024.   Please note that all theoretical papers will be subject to peer review. The other modalities of submissions we publish (visual essays, interviews, and critical reviews) are not subjected to peer review.    
                                                                                        

Acceptance of an abstract in any of these modalities does not guarantee publication.

BIOGRAPHIES

IGEA TROIANI
Igea Troiani (PhD) is a Professor of Architecture and Head of Division for Architecture at London South Bank University (LSBU). She is an architect and filmmaker with almost 30 years-experience of working in a university, architecture practice and universities gained in the UK (London, Oxford and Plymouth), China (Suzhou), Germany (Münster) and Australia (Brisbane and Melbourne). Her three key areas of research are 1) the social production of architecture; 2) architecture and media (focusing on publishing and filmmaking) and 3) architectural labour, neoliberalism and sustainable ecologies. She studies architecture from transdisciplinary perspectives to determine the conditions in which architecture is, and architects are, socially, culturally and economically produced. Her books include The Politics of Making (2017/2007); Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture (2017); Architecture Filmmaking (2019); Visual Research Methods in Architecture (2021); and Spaces of Tolerance (2021), and Work-life Balance in Architecture (in press).

JOAN MAC DONALD
Joan MacDonald is an architect and expert in housing and urban planning, especially in vulnerable contexts. She was the first architect to head the Housing Department at the UC School of Architecture and the first woman to assume the position of Undersecretary of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning (1990-94). Throughout her career, she has fulfilled different urban and housing management leadership roles. Among them, she was a consultant for the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division of ECLAC, and between 2000 and 2014, she directed the Latin American Service, African and Asian Popular Housing (SELAVIP). From there, she promoted the execution of more than 500 housing and neighborhood improvement projects for poor urban communities in the developing world.

JORGE TÁRRAGO MINGO
Jorge Tárrago Mingo. Registered Architect. PhD. University of Navarra (2005). He is a Professor of Architecture and collaborates in research and editorial initiatives. He is Director of RA, Revista de Arquitectura. He has published articles in ARQ, Future Anterior, Bauwelt, Rita, PPA, Revista 180, Arquitetura rivista, ZARCH, and he is a regular reviewer for some others. He is author, co-author or editor of several books and book chapters, the most recent being Aguinaga, Echaide, Sobrini. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (Pamplona, 2020), awarded at the XV BEAU, and the chapter 'A Certain Praise for Drawings' in Approaching Architecture. Three Fields, One Discipline (New York & Oxon, 2023). In 2015 he co-chaired the internacional conference Inter: Photography and Architecture (2016) and the four volumes with the proceedings that were awarded at the XIV BEAU. He founded alcolea+tárrago in 2005. His work has been awarded in more than 20 national and international competitions, published in many magazines and books, and has received several architecture prizes for built work.  

MARIA NETO
Maria Neto is an architect, invited assistant professor at DECA-UBI, and researcher at CEAU-FAUP and ICHaB-ETSAM. PhD in Architecture (EA-UAH+ICHaB-ETSAM, 2022) with an individual research scholarship from FTC, worthy of nomination for the Prémio Extraordinário UAH, holds post-graduation in Development of Human Settlements in the Third World (ICHaB/ETSAM) and professional practice in Humanitarian Shelter Coordination (IFRC/UNCHR/Oxford Brookes University). She has collaborated with the UNHCR and the BRC supporting refugees in Kenya and the UK. She was the recipient of the Távora Award, a guest speaker representing Portugal at the 17th International Exhibition of Architecture from the Venice Biennale and selected for the anthology of the Lisbon University Triennial Award. In addition to teaching at DECA-UBI and practicing in her architectural studio with architect Jorge Marum, she has collaborated with IHRU on the program “Da Habitação ao Habitat” within the framework of the New Generation of Housing Policies.

PAZ NUNEZ MARTI
Paz Núñez-Martí (Madrid, 1971) PhD in Architecture (Univ. Politécnica Madrid, 1998); Technical Specialist in Heritage Recovery and Rehabilitation (Univ. Politécnica Madrid, 2000) and Technical Specialist in Development Cooperation (Univ. Politécnica Madrid, 2005). PhD in Architecture (Univ. Politecnica Madrid, 2016) and currently Phd from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Univ. Alcalá (2002-act). She coordinates the area of Habitat and Territory of the Research Group applied to development cooperation COOPUAH. She has been Technical Advisor to the Madrid City Council for the shanty town settlement of Cañada Real (2015-2019) and currently conducts applied research on spatial justice, urbanism and citizenship from various civic platforms with political impact in the city of Madrid.

Born and Raised

Born and Raised

by Vlad Bulenkov

As a child, I thought that when I become an adult, I would also have children. And back then it seemed that this moment was very far away, and as if it would never come. I did not imagine myself as someone else, someone bigger and more important than I am. Now I am still the same as I was when I was 31 years old. But there is a feeling of anxiety and expectation from things familiar to the eye. Outwardly, nothing has changed, but everything seems to be different. Imminent changes excite me and inflame the atmosphere around me. And I feel like time is speeding up, the gap between me and me in the new role of a father is shortening. I’ve heard a lot from friends about what it’s like to have a baby. Now I can only imagine what will await me in the future after my son is born.

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Vlad Bulenkov is a visual artist. He was born in Leningrad, based in St. Petersburg. He studied at the faculty of photojournalists named after. Yu.A. Galperin and the school of modern photography Docdocdoc. He is a participant of group exhibitions and a finalist of international competitions.

Website: https://vbulenkov.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deubrazil/

AFAR

AFAR

by Büşra Kuzu

A child who tried to start over every time but couldn't break away from the past as she kept trying to recall all of it, all over again. Despite her poor memory, she is always on the lookout for the best capture she can memorize. She is a distant watcher; seeking, tracking, and observing from afar.

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Büşra Kuzu is a 25-year-old photographer who also likes to call herself a "visual experiencer". Not like any other people, she takes pleasure in delving into the past, making real stories out of it with what she photographs today. She's been also writing about mental imagery - mental representation and how these are related to photographic images, which she hopes one day she can turn into a comprehensive work. 

Website: https://busrakuzu.net/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/busrakuzuu/

8ª CONFERÊNCIA INTERNACIONAL DE SOPHIA JOURNAL - FAUP | SEPT 2023

8ª CONFERÊNCIA INTERNACIONAL DE SOPHIA JOURNAL

Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage

Organização: Hugh Campbell, Igea Troiani, João Leal, Mark Durden, Olívia Marques da Silva, Pedro Leão Neto, Rikke Munck Petersen, Teresa Ferreira

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Nos dias 15 e 16 de setembro, na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP), realizou-se mais uma edição da nossa conferência internacional Sophia Journal, dando continuidade ao ciclo anual bem-sucedido de fóruns internacionais dedicados à exploração crítica das interseções entre a imagem e a arquitetura.

Tendo como motivo de interesse as práticas fotográficas e visuais contemporâneas que exploram como a arquitetura, no seu sentido mais amplo, pode contribuir para a cura de um planeta em crise, a 8ª Conferência Internacional do Sophia Journal: "Landscapes of Care: Photography, Film, Modern Architecture, and Landscape Heritage" centrou-se tanto na reflexão teórica como no trabalho de campo. A conferência analisou de que forma a fotografia e a produção cinematográfica podem servir como ferramentas descritivas, analíticas e interpretativas, transmitindo perspectivas originais e novas visões sobre a arquitetura moderna e o património paisagístico.

O evento compreendeu um programa que combinou sessões ao vivo e videoconferências, transmitidas online, permitindo assim a participação de uma maior audiência. O programa apresentou uma variedade de atividades ricas e diversas, incluindo:

·       Três mesas-redondas, cada uma dedicada a um tópico específico (Types, Places e Processes), onde as discussões giraram em torno da fotografia, cinema, arquitetura moderna e patrimônio paisagístico, com apresentações de artigos e ensaios visuais enviados.

·       Uma exposição de fotografia intitulada "The Idea of Álvaro Siza"

·       Uma discussão em painel/mesa-redonda com autores convidados sobre o tema "Documentary Artistic Publications About Architecture,", com a apresentação de quatro publicações, nomeadamente "Another Approach to the Works of Álvaro Siza" by Pedro Leão Neto e a coleção scopionewspaper "The Idea of Álvaro Siza" by Mark Durden and João Leal.

·       Chamada Aberta (Open Call) Sophia Journal, Vol. 9, "Landscapes of Care. Public housing across multiple geographies: Crossing theories and practices". 

A conferência emergiu como uma plataforma dinâmica capaz de abordar questões significativas centralizadas na discussão da fotografia e do cinema, permitindo-nos compreender a dimensão social da arquitetura. O evento incentivou a compreensão da arquitetura, como Alvar Aalto preconizou, como "a great synthetic process of combining thousands of definite human functions." Acreditamos que esta perspectiva contribui para um entendimento mais profundo do potencial do equilíbrio ecológico e sustentável entre arquitetura e natureza na arquitetura moderna e paisagística.

Organizado pelo Centro de Estudos em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, sediado na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto (CEAU/FAUP), em colaboração com a University College Dublin (UCD), London South Bank University (LSBU), University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Newport – University of South Wales (USW/eCDR), e a School of Media Arts and Design (P.PORTO/ESMAD), a 8ª Conferência Internacional Sophia Journal marcou a continuação de uma série de conferências intimamente alinhadas com a revista científica com revisão por pares Sophia Journal que publica artigos teóricos e ensaios visuais que investigam e pensam criticamente as intersecções entre a imagem e a arquitectura.

Estamos muito satisfeitos com o sucesso da 8ª Conferência Internacional do Sophia Journal, que ocorreu quer online quer presencialmente na nossa magnífica Cidade e Escola de Arquitetura do Porto, projetada por Álvaro Siza. O evento provou ser não apenas um fórum importante para fomentar a reflexão e o debate nos campos da Arquitetura, Arte e Imagem, mas também uma plataforma significativa para criar um ambiente amigável que facilitou trocas construtivas de ideias e networking entre investigadores e colegas de diversos países. Além disso, os participantes tiveram a oportunidade de conhecer através uma experiência pessoal alguns dos edifício icónicos de Álvaro Siza, como as Piscinas das Marés de Leça de Palmeira e o Pavilhão Carlos Ramos da Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto. A Exposição da conferência "The Idea of Álvaro Siza" foi inaugurada com uma recepção de Vinho do Porto, cortesia da Niepoort e Vieira de Castro, que contou com a presença do Vice-Reitor para a Investigação e Inovação da U. Porto, Prof. Doutor Pedro Rodrigues.

Queremos expressar a nossa gratidão a todos os participantes desta 8ª Conferência Internacional Sophia Journal, que tem sido uma parte integral da nossa comunidade acadêmica já há mais de oito anos. A conferência tem desempenhado um papel significativo para a criação de uma rede internacional focada na interseção entre Fotografia e Arquitetura. A comissão organizadora está muito satisfeita por ter conseguido realizar esta conferência com sucesso, tanto virtualmente quanto presencialmente, e esperamos que todos os participantes tenham desfrutado o melhor possível da sua estadia na nossa magnifica cidade do Porto.

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8th SOPHIA JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - FAUP | SEPT 2023

8th SOPHIA JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage

Organized by: Hugh Campbell, Igea Troiani, João Leal, Mark Durden, Olívia Marques da Silva, Pedro Leão Neto, Rikke Munck Petersen, Teresa Ferreira

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On September 15th and 16th, at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), another edition of our Sophia Journal International conference took place, continuing the successful annual cycle of international forums dedicated to the critical exploration of the intersections between image and architecture.

Focusing on contemporary photographic and visual practices that explore how architecture, in its broadest sense, can contribute to healing a planet in crisis, the 8th Sophia Journal International Conference: "Landscapes of Care: Photography, Film, Modern Architecture, and Landscape Heritage" centered on both theoretical and fieldwork. The conference examined how architectural photography and filmmaking serve as descriptive, analytical, and interpretive tools, conveying original perspectives and fresh insights into modern architecture and landscape heritage.

The event comprised a program that combined live and video-conferencing sessions, which were broadcast online and allowed a large audience to participate. The program featured a rich and diverse set of activities, including:

• Three roundtables, each dedicated to a specific topic (Types, Places, and Processes), where discussions revolved around photography, film, modern architecture, and landscape heritage, with presentations of submitted articles and visual essays.

• A photography exhibition titled " The Idea of Álvaro Siza"

• A panel/roundtable discussion with invited speakers on the topic of "Documentary Artistic Publications About Architecture," featuring the presentation of four scopio Editions publications, namely "Another Approach to the Works of Álvaro Siza" by Pedro Leão Neto and the "scopionewspaper" collection "The Idea of Álvaro Siza" by Mark Durden and João Leal.

• Launching the new call of Sophia Journal, Vol. 9, "Landscapes of Care. Public housing across multiple geographies: Crossing theories and practices". 

The conference emerged as a dynamic platform for addressing thought-provoking issues central to the discussion of photography and film, enabling us to view the social dimension of architecture. It encouraged us to perceive architecture, as Alvar Aalto did, as "a great synthetic process of combining thousands of definite human functions." This perspective contributes to a deeper understanding of the potential for a more ecological and sustainable balance between architecture and nature within modern architecture and landscape.

Organized by the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, based at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (CEAU/FAUP), in collaboration with University College Dublin (UCD), London South Bank University (LSBU), University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Newport – University of South Wales (USW/eCDR), and the School of Media Arts and Design (P.PORTO/ESMAD), the 8th Sophia Journal International Conference marked the continuation of a series of conferences closely aligned with Sophia's peer-reviewed publication. Sophia supports and disseminates scientific research by publishing theoretical articles and visual essays that critically explore the intersections between image and architecture.

We are delighted with the success of the 8th Sophia Journal International Conference, which took place both online and in person at our magnificent City and School of Architecture in Porto, designed by Álvaro Siza. The event proved to be not only an important forum for fostering reflection and debate within the realms of architecture, art, and imagery, but also a significant platform for creating a congenial atmosphere that facilitated constructive exchanges of ideas and networking among researchers and colleagues from various countries. Additionally, attendees had the opportunity to experience in person some of Álvaro Siza's iconic buildings, such as the Tidal Pools of Leça de Palmeira and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto's Carlos Ramos Pavilion. The exhibition exhibition integrated in the conference opened with a Port Wine reception, courtesy of Niepoort and Vieira de Castro, which all attended, having had the presence of Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation of U. Porto Pedro Rodrigues, marking the inauguration of the exhibition "The Idea of Álvaro Siza".

We extend our gratitude to all participants in this 8th Sophia Journal International Conference, which has been an integral part of our academic community for over eight years. It has played a significant role in establishing an international network focused on the intersection of Photography and Architecture. The organizing committee is thrilled to have successfully hosted this conference, both virtually and in person, and we hope that all attendees enjoyed their time in our beautiful city of Porto.

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8th SOPHIA JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Exhibition The Idea of Álvaro Siza by Mark Durden and João Leal

Exhibition The Idea of Álvaro Siza by Mark Durden and João Leal

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INTEGRATED PROGRAM TO CONFERENCE: Exhibition The Idea of Álvaro Siza by Mark Durden and João Leal

The exhibition shows the photographic work developed around two of Siza´s paradigmatic buildings, which are the Carlos Ramos Pavilion and the Faculty of Architecture of Porto, resulting in the publication of the the first of the three volumes of the collection 'scopionewspaper journal The Idea of Álvaro Siza.

About The Idea of Álvaro Siza

The Idea of Álvaro Siza is a photographic project that has its origins in the work developed by Mark Durden and João Leal in response to Siza's architecture since 2017.

The project involving a selection of architectural buildings designed by Álvaro Siza has been supported from the outset by the research group Architecture, Arte and Image - CEAU | AAI – and has given rise to the editorial | graphic design project scopionewspaper journal The Idea of Álvaro Siza with the seal of scopio Editions, being also supported by the University of South Wales.

The Idea of Álvaro Siza understands architecture as both subject and artistic matter exploring a visual strategy that moves away from traditional mainstream architectural photography. It expands the comprehension of architecture, investigating photography’s ability as a unique form of expression, capable of creating a visual narrative that moves between the real and the poetic. The photography series of this project allow viewers to sense both the magical experience that Siza’s architectural spaces produce for us and how light and nature interplay within those spaces and how Siza’s spatial forms relate with the context, offering a deeper understanding of the architect’s oeuvre.

The project is now expanding to include works by other architects. In 2023, in addition to the publication “Ocean Swimming Pool”, two more will be launched focused on the work of Carlos Scarpa and Aldo Rossi, namely “Brion Memorial” and “Aldo Rossi: San Cataldo Cemetry”.

About the curatorial work of the Exhibition The Idea of Álvaro Siza in Pavilion Carlos Ramos

It was sought to explore a site-oriented approach to the exhibition The Idea of Álvaro Siza in the Pavilion Carlos Ramos taking advantage of the building´s unique architectural characteristics in terms of natural light, rich relations between interior and exterior spaces and the white boards of many walls ready to be pinned with students work.

The objective was to communicate and exhibit the work in a more alternative way, as well as related to the project concept itself, withstanding from common strategies and challenge the viewer's relationship to the work exhibited, exploring the “architectural promenade” concept and trying to break any sequential monotony and barriers between the work and the public.

DATE
15th and 16th of September 2023

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The Conference will be held in person and online at FAUP - Auditorium Fernando Távora - and the Exhibition will be at Carlos Ramos Pavilion - 19h00 | Pavilhão Carlos Ramos

Opening and visit to the Exhibition 'The Idea of Álvaro Siza'
Port Wine reception | Ocean Swimming Pool Launch - scopionewspaper journal collection

CONFERENCE LIVE STREAMING VIA ZOOM
Zoom link: https://videoconfcolibri.zoom.us/j/91965794170?pwd=TUZIWUlIdHlWQkxhRE5URU9vTWxZZz09

Meeting ID: 919 6579 4170

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Wavering

Wavering

by Josef Kovac

Oscillating between real and surreal, fighting with loneliness and longing for deeper human connection. Moments of epiphany get rarer and searching for them becomes an obsession, that rush of happiness and satisfaction that floods the brain for a moment is addictive and becomes another emotional longing. The constant remnants of unpleasant personality traits from the past, those that you thought had disappeared with maturity. Up and down, up and down like a rollercoaster seeming to move forward towards the void of a future but feeling caught in an unbreakable repetitive loop.

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Josef Kovac (*1982, former Czechoslovakia) is a photographer and artist currently situated in Gothenburg, Sweden. He pursued his photography education at the Institute of Technology in Dublin, Ireland, as well as at the HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg, Sweden. Kovac’s artistic focus lies in exploring the dynamic between photographic images and fiction. He achieves this by transforming everyday objects and spaces into new narratives, thereby prompting a reevaluation of how these elements interact. Through his work, Kovac challenges our perceptions of the relationship between photographs and fictional storytelling, using ordinary subjects to create new imaginative contexts.

Website: https://josefkovac.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josef_kovac/

Iceland Ahoy!

Iceland Ahoy!

by Przemyslaw Mioduszewski

I always want to capture surroundings and my personal life on camera. Most of the photographs show me in raw surroundings where I fight for survival, becoming wild and mismatched in the nature with an absolute inability to find myself in a rough terrain.

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I was born in Łapy, a small town in east Poland and moved to USA at age fourteen. First New York and them I made my way west, to California. After sixteen years, working as a carpenter, jeweler, jazz radio persona and sixty other different jobs I went back to Poland where I became a seaman on a cargo ship. That became load of a job at some point so I tried to settle up for a while in Iceland. I spend half a year working both as a fisherman and a lifeguard in Icelandic village in the north and another half in Poland.

Website: http://suddenweatherchange.com/info/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/przemyslaw.mioduszewski/

Fordlândia 9

Fordlândia 9

by JM Ramírez-Suassi

The Amazon is much more than a river. It is the visible appearance, infinitely rich in analogies, of the reality of things. This seems obvious, when poetic languages intervene to describe reality, the latter loses its documentary sharpness and is converted into a creative fantasy, especially in the specific sense that the river embodies the ironic and sombre essence of the universe.

I have contemplated this river and its affluents in small doses, and small steps, because like a bashful child, it only showed its epidermis; this I found irritating. But traveling so sedately meant that all that surrounded me remained hidden until the river itself disgorged all its “splendours” along its various stretches: globetrotters, beggars, preachers, drunken aborigines, ruined foremen, minor politicians, lumberjacks, monks, soldiers, melancholic prostitutes... I find it strange that the beautiful image of this river, is in reality a beautiful imperfection. Conversely Fordlândia, Henry Ford’s attempt to transform the jungle into a fantasy of the American Mid West, is the perfect imperfection: a perfect failure of the American Way of Life.

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JM Ramírez-Suassi was born in Mallorca (Spain) and now lives and works in Madrid. His photographs, which at first sight appears to fit seamlessly into the great nowhere, involve many visits to the same landscapes to observe the change year after year. His work occupies an ambiguous position somewhere between portraiture and social landscape. Has published the photobook One Eyed Ulysses (2018) and Fordlândia 9 (2020). Is a self-taught.

Website: https://www.ramirezsuassi.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jmsuassi/

Unutursan Darılmam

Unutursan Darılmam

BY Ci Demi

Unutursan Darılmam (No Offence If You Forget, 2018 - 2023) is a photobook project about clinging to Istanbul and rediscovering life after a three-year-long depression.

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I was born in Beyoglu, Istanbul on July 6th,1986. I studied Italian Language And Literature at Istanbul University. Following that, I worked for advertising agencies as copywriter and creative director for many years. I was 28 when I discovered visual story-telling. I did music photography and photojournalism for a while, then I decided to devote my time solely on my own stories. 

My work is focused on Istanbul and its personal psychogeographies. Adopting documentary as secondary function, I tell stories using the scenes of my city. My distinct color palette is a derivation of the look of Italian giallos of '70s, and I take clues from the cinematography of classic horror films in my visual language. All of my photographs take place in the daytime.

Website: https://cidemi.art/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ci_demi/

Ermo

ERMO

BY BRUNO SILVA

Muito tempo antes de saber o que Ermo significava, já lá brincava com amigos meus. Na verdade, achei que o Ermo só existia ali: naquelas duas ou três ruas cercadas por árvores. Ermo era o nome de um lugar nos arredores do porto muito próximo de onde vivi a minha infância e adolescência. Chegou a ser uma floresta extensa e densa até ao início dos anos 70. Altura em que o urbanismo transformou essa floresta extensa em dezenas de pequenos bosques. Foi nessa espécie de arquipélago de bosques que passei grande parte da minha infância. De dia, a luz: a aventura e a descoberta. De noite, a escuridão, o medo: o som dos animais, o cheiro a fumo das queimadas e a certeza dos fantasmas. Num desses bosques havia uma casa onde vivia uma mulher que tinha um problema de visão - os olhos dela eram brancos, mas não era cega. Ela vivia sozinha e quando lhe perguntavam como conseguia fazer a sua rotina sem qualquer ajuda, ela sorria e respondia que havia uma mão no ombro que a guiava através das árvores. Mas isso não a assustava - o que a assustava eram as árvores. Entre o documento e a representação, Ermo pretende ser um mapeamento sensorial de um território distante na memória. Abordando e rodeando questões entre o lar e a casa, o subúrbio e a infância, a forma e o símbolo, tentando criar um universo onírico, ambíguo e acima de tudo interpretativo. Tornando este “Ermo” que me é tão particular, no mais universal possível.

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Utiliza a fotografia como veículo narrativo em projectos na área da fotografia documental tendo especial interesse pelo território e a memória. Apenas em 2017 começou a apresentar trabalhos publicamente. Nesse mesmo ano, recebeu a Bolsa Emergente Fotografia Documental I.P.C.I que lhe permitiu frequentar o Master em Fotografia Artística no I.P.C.I. Em 2020 fez parte da programação do Photo Alicante e foi selecionado para o Festival Circulations, Paris. Em 2021 foi um dos vencedores do Urbanautica Institute Awards. Em 2022 integrou o ciclo de exposições da Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Cerveira e recebeu uma Menção Honrosa na Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira.

É representado pela Galeria Adorna, na cidade do Porto.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/o_bruno_silva/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
Website: https://cargocollective.com/brunoleitesilva

Bunker

bunker

BY Vincenzo Pagliuca

In the years leading up to the Second World War the whole Alpine area was involved in the building of a complex system of fortifications wanted by the fascist regime to protect the Italian border against the neighboring countries. A section of this defensive system, named Alpine Wall, was located in the valleys along the border with Austria where, with an incalculable waste of resources, the construction of about 350 bunkers was completed. A huge architectural heritage that remained unused and presided by the army until 1993, year in which the structures were finally decommissioned. At that time some of the bunkers were bought by private citizens and converted into agricultural deposits, others were demolished or abandoned for good. Despite the present state of oblivion these visionary structures, expression of the fear of loss and desire of control, continue to generate interest for their architectural characteristics, for the ingenious systems of camouflage and for the relationship they have established with the natural and social context in which they are situated. A difficult heritage worth preserving to keep the collective memory alive of a dramatic historical period marked by nationalistic ideology and by the inability to resolve conflicts through peaceful means.

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Bio

Vincenzo Pagliuca was born in Italy in 1980. His photographic practice focuses on the landscape and man intervention on the land, especially bringing the attention to rural and suburban Italian locations.  His work has been featured in galleries, museums and festivals such as Copenhagen Photo Festival, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Centro Italiano della Fotografia d’Autore (Bibbiena), Foto Forum (Bolzano), Galleria del Cembalo and Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), Villa Pignatelli (Naples), Belfast Photo Festival. He published the photobooks “Napoli Nord • Case Rom” (The Velvet Cell, 2020) and “mónos” (Hartmann Books, 2022).

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_vincenzopagliuca_
Website: https://www.vincenzopagliuca.com