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Teresa Freitas' work explores the potentiality of colour in photography influenced by painting and cinematic language. For FUTURES, she presents two long-term projects. The first, The Flower Chronicles: Rosa damascena, was developed in small communities around the world who work with traditions based on flower production. In this series, Freitas’ images depict the historical, cultural and socioeconomic dimensions of this activity, while the second project, Cinematica, is a work-in-progress that documents subjects around the world, focusing on the visual impact of colour in composition.
Rui Costa's work explores the poetic and subjective dimension of documentary photography. The project UMA AZEITONA BORDADA EM AZUL is an emotional manifestation about his grandmother, where signs of rupture and restlessness are the matrix of a dense photographic narrative. By interconnecting images from different sources – captured directly by the artist and taken from family albums – Costa creates multiple meanings.
Maria Beatriz de Vilhena's practice examines human nature through systems of belief and collective identity. Her portfolio includes three different bodies of work: Irene is an ongoing project that probes the emotional side of memory through personal photographs and family archives; OMNIS, generated as a collective collaboration, depicts a young religious community during World Youth Day in Lisbon; and Fractal represents the diverse practices of faith and worship present in religious communities in Lisbon.
Katya Bogachevskaia embraces photography as a therapeutic process, expressing her feelings about Russia's invasion of Ukraine while also questioning her own identity. Through the rituals of her daily life, Bogachevskaia documents her emotional state, probing themes of war, emigration, a loss of home, the uncertainty of the future, guilt and death.
João Ramilo's work metaphorically appraises different socio- and economic perspectives around his own village, Louriceira, in the Portugal interior. His ongoing project From rock to bone is an ontological reflection based on his concerns about the disappearance, resignation and preservation of place.
Teresa Freitas' work explores the potentiality of colour in photography influenced by painting and cinematic language. For FUTURES, she presents two long-term projects. The first, The Flower Chronicles: Rosa damascena, was developed in small communities around the world who work with traditions based on flower production. In this series, Freitas’ images depict the historical, cultural and socioeconomic dimensions of this activity, while the second project, Cinematica, is a work-in-progress that documents subjects around the world, focusing on the visual impact of colour in composition.
Rui Costa's work explores the poetic and subjective dimension of documentary photography. The project UMA AZEITONA BORDADA EM AZUL is an emotional manifestation about his grandmother, where signs of rupture and restlessness are the matrix of a dense photographic narrative. By interconnecting images from different sources – captured directly by the artist and taken from family albums – Costa creates multiple meanings.
Maria Beatriz de Vilhena's practice examines human nature through systems of belief and collective identity. Her portfolio includes three different bodies of work: Irene is an ongoing project that probes the emotional side of memory through personal photographs and family archives; OMNIS, generated as a collective collaboration, depicts a young religious community during World Youth Day in Lisbon; and Fractal represents the diverse practices of faith and worship present in religious communities in Lisbon.
Katya Bogachevskaia embraces photography as a therapeutic process, expressing her feelings about Russia's invasion of Ukraine while also questioning her own identity. Through the rituals of her daily life, Bogachevskaia documents her emotional state, probing themes of war, emigration, a loss of home, the uncertainty of the future, guilt and death.
João Ramilo's work metaphorically appraises different socio- and economic perspectives around his own village, Louriceira, in the Portugal interior. His ongoing project From rock to bone is an ontological reflection based on his concerns about the disappearance, resignation and preservation of place.
João Ramilo Gomes Barros de Figueiredo, known as João Ramilo, was born in 1999 in Porto, Portugal. His interest in photography dates back to his adolescence, and ever since, he has beenexploring new techniques and approaches. He studied Photography at IADE – Creating Creatorsin Lisbon and is a finalist for his Master's in Photography at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto. He learned from remarkable photographers such as José Luís Neto, Paulo Catrica, CarlosLobo, António Júlio Duarte, and Tito Mouraz.
As an artist, João Ramilo aims to document human intervention in the world, capturing theinteraction between them. The essence of his work is to portray social and economic issues through images and immortalize those moments in time.
Currently, he resides in Lisbon and works as a freelance photographer.
Katya Bogachevskaia (*1986) is a visual artist, curator, editor, and lecturer from StPetersburg, Russia, now based in Lisbon, Portugal.
Having worked as a photo editor, curator, and lecturer for many years, Katya picked up acamera after moving from Russia to Portugal. Photography has become a tool forBogachevskaia to express her feelings about forced emigration and the war unleashed byher native country, Russia, in Ukraine. Through her work, she reflects on the intense impactof this devastating war, searches for her own identity, copes with the loss of her home,experiences fear for her children, and navigates the process of integrating into a newenvironment.
Observing her children and the world around her - primarily nature, Katya createsmetaphorical images infused with subtle, hidden meanings.
Katya is the founder of the Academy of Documentary and Art Photography Fotografika, ofthe independent photobook publishing house Fotografika Publishing, and editor ofPhotojournal of Republic Media.
Rui Costa, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, 1989.
He began his studies at the Portuguese Institute of Photography in Lisbon in 2020, wherehe became interested in developing documentary and authorial projects. In 2022 heattended the Masterclass Narrativa with the photographer Mário Cruz. Since 2023, he hasbeen a teacher at the Portuguese Institute of Photography in Lisbon. Winner of the Fnac New Talents Award 2023, in the Photography category, with the essay“Uma Azeitona Bordada em Azul".
Teresa Freitas (b. 1990) is a Portuguese artist and colourist based in Lisbon,Portugal. She graduated from Lisbon University’s Faculty of Fine Arts with a degreein Multimedia Art and a Masters in Design and New Media. Initially drawn to blackand white film, Teresa followed her influences from Painting and Cinema to apply aknowledge of colour theory and harmony to develop a signature style, characterisedby bright yet calming hues. Her photography now skilfully navigates the impact ofcolour in composition, subject, and place, and in the viewer's aesthetic response.
Teresa aspires to delve into the realm of post-documentary photography,characterised by a more intimate connection to the tangible world, and placing strongemphasis on a subjective, poetic method of crafting images and narratives. Shecontinues to be dedicated to the exploration of colour in photography and itsexpression as an individual artistic style.
Maria Beatriz de Vilhena (b. 1991) is Lisbon based photographer, with a professional background in architecture. She studied photography at CFP Bauer Milan and holds a master's degree in architecture from the University of Lisbon.
In parallel with her artistic and professional work, she has been collaborating since 2022 with the photo collective and cultural association Narrativa, as a founding member. Her photographic work explores the pluralism of human nature through belief and collective identity, as well as issues related to memory and noetic.
Her first long-term project, Fractal, a visual investigation into the heterogeneity of worship and its relationship with the city, was exhibited in Lisbon and was published by several media outlets. The same project was selected by an international jury to be presented at the Descubrimientos event at the PHotoESPAÑA photography festival, with a grant from the Embassy of Portugal in Madrid and the Camões Institute.
In 2023 she participated in the group show and book OMNIS, presenting her view on religion through an essay based on the World Youth Day. Her ongoing project, Irene, explores the role of memory in the construction of a present nostalgia, through personal photographs and family archives.
