The photographic projects are the result of the work developed by the students of Photography II, in the degree of Audiovisual Communication, ESMAD.

Lost zone - São Brás

by Jorge Filipe Silva

We know São Brás, through a narrative that traverses the landscape and the construction of a territory, approaching the evolution and how a place can be interpreted, and the way their own visual culture, become, a lost and forgotten area between the lines of the city of Vila do Conde. In a non-expressive way, we visited a place with traces of humanity, but empty of its presence. The abandoned houses, the absence of people on the street, the careless animals. We are almost called to new critical interpretations, due to the way they live and what is the vision of those who dwell the streets of São Brás. The cement walls intersect with the green of the fields, where these colors merge and become the color of São Brás. A normal environment, in a daily life in which we are unknown.

Disruptive

by Inês Trindade

“Disruptive” is reading of the territory surrounding the Vila do Conde metro station, whose role in the territory has brought changes and helped to shape the essence of the structures around, creating a disruptive and dividing “line” in this territory, many times functioning has a barrier between different realities in the area. Human action in the appropriation and transformation of the landscape accentuates even further this disparity and antagonism, between the rural and the urban world. We are able to understand the role inherent to some of the places, where today, that role is reassigned and renewed by those who live in there. Despite the Metro’s association with the concept of “urban”, it’s in the area closest to it that everything is more rural. The “disintegrated urbanism” provided by this element in the territory is the main premise of the project, which rules the territory planning dynamics in Vila de Conde area.

More Than A Warehouse, An House

by Inês Eloi

“More Than A Warehouse, An House” is a project based on architectural photography, but which creates a bridge with documentary photography, where it is possible to observe a community of emigrants who settled in the region of the Industrial Zone of Varziela in Vila do Conde, some earlier than others, but who will remain in that same place for years if not decades. However, this project shows more than an industrial zone where trade is carried out, but where families of several generations live on top of their stores / warehouses. These same families left tracks through the streets of this area through sporadic details and other more permanent ones, ending up creating a visual game of searching for details that can be anywhere.