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The Guardian
3 days ago
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- The Guardian
‘Tomorrow today': Porto biennial shows photography as catalyst for change
There is an urgency to the theme of this year's Fotografia do Porto, Amanhã Hoje (Tomorrow Today). It wants us consider how we want the world to look in the future and to start making changes now. The environmental crisis and the role played by society are the burning issues in which photography is revealed as a force for change, not just a means to document it. This is a small operation with a big heart and an ambitious raison d'être. There is nothing flashy or corporate in sight, and all 16 exhibitions in venues across the city are free. The co-director Virgílio Ferreira says most of the investment is spent in the invisible areas: paying honest fees and not wasting money on expensive framing. Instead, images are projected or displayed on screens to create engaging and ingenious exhibitions. There is also a refreshing lack of hierarchy – curators and artists, well-known and emerging, work in collaboration with local communities, scientists, and government bodies. Clouds rising from geothermal wells in Hellisheidi power station in Iceland. Geothermal is one of the most circular ways to produce energy while respecting the environment. It could be applicable in many countries with volcanic activity, and used instead of burning coal or oil. Photograph by Luca Locatelli The great indoors provides optimal growing conditions for lettuce and other leafy greens at Siberia BV in Maasbree, the Netherlands. Each acre in the greenhouse yields as much lettuce as 10 outdoor acres, and cuts the need for chemicals by 97%. Photograph by Luca Locatelli In the series Future Studies, Luca Locatelli photographs landscapes that have been altered through farming and industry on a massive scale. He often uses aerial photography to reveal views that are inaccessible from the ground. The images of vast greenhouses and a geothermal power plant are jaw-dropping for their enormity. Locatelli is interested in how technology is being used to increase the supply of food and generate energy in a world moving away from fossil fuels. The photographs from inside these structures reveal a clinical and truly dystopian view of the future in which humans, if present at all, are wearing hazmat suits. Mid-air Collisions, a video and sound installation by Kathrin Stumreich Mid-air Collisions by Kathrin Stumreich Kathrin Stumreich's video and sound installation, recorded at the futuristic-looking Ivanpah concentrated solar power plant in the Mojave desert in the US, sizzles with images of puffs of smoke against blue skies and the sound of crackling pops. It takes a moment for the reality of what those images and sounds are to sink in: they are birds burning up in the intense heat. There are more than 170,000 motorised mirrors that reflect the sun's rays on to three central solar towers where temperatures reach up to 1,000F (535C). The birds are drawn in by insects that have been attracted to the light. For the exhibition Vivificar (to live, to stay), three photographers were sent to live with families in three different parts of the rural Douro region outside Porto with the aim of being completely immersed in the local culture. The resulting work is rich and unexpected, even for the artists themselves. In the summer, after the festival is over, the three projects will be exhibited in the communities in which they were created in a gesture that completes the circle. Lara Jacinto, In the time of cherries, 2025 Lara Jacinto, In the time of cherries, 2025 With one of the families in Sabrosa, Lara Jacinto discovered a community in a state of change. The lack of jobs had driven young people to seek work and opportunities elsewhere, leaving behind a small and ageing population. The government has tried to solve the problem by repopulating the area with migrants from countries as distant as Ukraine, Angola and Nepal. Jacinto's portraits show the isolation and restlessness that this diverse group have experienced as they struggle to become part of a community that has lost its identity. Portugal's recent elections saw the far-right anti-immigration Chega party making record gains, leaving Sabrosa's new community in an even more precarious position. Joana Dionísio's installation Rhizomes in the S Bento metro station, Porto The importance of community and exchange is the thread that binds these diverse exhibitions. Joana Dionísio explores social activism in the Geopark Algarvensis, where local communities are brought together to protect the ecology and cultural history of the area. This idea of building sustainable grassroot networks is nicely contrasted by this exhibition's installation inside a metro station. The images are beguiling. They show people tenderly helping each other and doing manual conservation work. The layout of the exhibition means that commuters have to walk, or rush, through the images and will probably see something new on every journey. The Yanomami Struggle: Catrimani, Roraima, Brazil, 1972-1974. Photograph: Claudia Andujar Photographers are also celebrated as actors in the fight against state-driven environmental and social destruction. Claudia Andujar, who is one of the artists featured in Lightseekers, has spent her life tirelessly campaigning for Brazil's indigenous Yanomami people, whose lives in the Amazon have been devastated by the expansion of roads and agriculture. In 1992 her images helped bring about the demarcation of Yanomami territory, but the Yanomami are still under threat. Thyago Nogueira, who looks after her archive, says that what is happening today is as 'bad and as violent' as in the past because 'the lives of the Yanomami are very connected to the frontline of capitalism because they have gold in their territory.' An image rephotographed from Andujar's archive When she first went to live with the Yanomami, Andujar found that straight photojournalism could not translate the experience of being there, which was rooted in shamanic rituals, so she began to experiment with film to create images that conveyed feeling. Now at the age of 93, Andujar uses that same creative approach with images that she mines from her archive. By re-photographing and symbolically using gold tints she continues to educate people about the Yanomami. There are many more exhibitions worth highlighting – this feels like a very small bite of a rich and intellectually stimulating biennial that will provoke conversations and collaborations long after it has ended. Karin Andreasson travelled to Porto at the invitation of the biennial organisers.
CNN
5 days ago
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- CNN
Legendary Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado dead at 81
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has died at age 81, according to CNN Brasil citing his nonprofit Instituto Terra. 'It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Sebastião Salgado, our founder, mentor, and eternal source of inspiration,' Instituto Terra said in a post on Instagram. 'Sebastião was much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time,' the post continued. 'Alongside his life partner, Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado, he sowed hope where there was devastation and brought to life the belief that environmental restoration is also a profound act of love for humanity.'
CNN
5 days ago
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- CNN
Legendary Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado dead at 81
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has died at age 81, according to CNN Brasil citing his nonprofit Instituto Terra. 'It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Sebastião Salgado, our founder, mentor, and eternal source of inspiration,' Instituto Terra said in a post on Instagram. 'Sebastião was much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time,' the post continued. 'Alongside his life partner, Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado, he sowed hope where there was devastation and brought to life the belief that environmental restoration is also a profound act of love for humanity.'
CNN
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
Legendary Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado dead at 81
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has died at age 81, according to CNN Brasil citing his nonprofit Instituto Terra. 'It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Sebastião Salgado, our founder, mentor, and eternal source of inspiration,' Instituto Terra said in a post on Instagram. 'Sebastião was much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time,' the post continued. 'Alongside his life partner, Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado, he sowed hope where there was devastation and brought to life the belief that environmental restoration is also a profound act of love for humanity.'
Vogue
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Guido Guidi, the Photographer Who Reminds Us That Truth Can Be Found in Shadow
Guido Guidi: Interview with Alessandro Rabottini, Curator of the Exhibition Dedicated to the Photographer of the Essential, On View at 10 Corso Como. There are artists whose practice, over time, settles into a form of thought that eludes the logic of spectacle. Guido Guidi is one of them. Through a steadfast dedication to photography as his sole medium and a gaze that appears modest yet is profoundly subversive, Guidi has shaped an aesthetics of the essential—where every peeling wall or reflection of light becomes a silent epiphany of time's passage. Da un'altra parte, the exhibition dedicated to his work at 10·Corso·Como originates from the visionary eye and curatorial sensitivity of Alessandro Rabottini, one of the most perceptive and radical voices in today's contemporary art scene. With his ability to move fluidly across media and disciplines, Rabottini has built a project that does more than simply present Guidi's work: it listens to it, inhabits it, questions it. The exhibition moves along the thread of a 'poetics of attention'—an invitation to linger, to truly observe, to be touched by shadow—not as a void, but as a place where light, space, and memory meet. The curatorial choice to break apart the photographic series in favor of poetic and formal tensions reinforces the idea of photography not as description, but as evocation; not as affirmation, but as inquiry. We spoke with Rabottini about this project, which stems from years of reflection and desire—about the political value of attention, the quiet radicality of Guidi's visual language, and the potential held by an image that appears 'empty' to restore an ethical stance toward the world. In an age dominated by urgency and overexposure, Da un'altra parte reminds us that to see is already to think, that in shadow lies a form of truth, and that perhaps it is only through what escapes us—through emptiness, silence, and reflection—that we can truly learn to inhabit the world again.
