Janela Portuguese word for window
The town of Faro is located in the South of Portugal: it is the capital and main town of Algarve, the most popular tourist destination in the country for its sunny beaches. The region boasts a yearly average of 300 sunny days. It is paradise for tourism companies – but a hellish reality for those who need different weather conditions for their activities. Faro is not an indoor town; there people don’t live within four walls. It is rather a place of the outdoors – of the street, of conviviality and warmth, of terraces and hugs.
The Window is now taken as a metaphor for the bidimensional geometric space giving onto the outside, the place we now long for. The screens that used to separate us are now bringing us closer together. We look into them as we look through a window. Will it rain?
Verónica; João and Ana; Tiago, Karen and Mafalda; Filipe, Andreia; Pedro, Célia, and Martim and Leonor, they live in Faro – now, they are at home.
The Window is now taken as a metaphor for the bidimensional geometric space giving onto the outside, the place we now long for. The screens that used to separate us are now bringing us closer together. We look into them as we look through a window. Will it rain?
Verónica; João and Ana; Tiago, Karen and Mafalda; Filipe, Andreia; Pedro, Célia, and Martim and Leonor, they live in Faro – now, they are at home.
Tiago, Karen and Mafalda
João and Ana
Veronica
Filipe and Andreia
Pedro, Célia, Martim and Leonor
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Vasco CélioThe Portuguese photographer Vasco Célio was born in Angola in 1975. He came to Portugal at an early age and has since lived in the Algarve. From this Southern region of Portugal he has pursued a continual demand for a documentary gaze over his country, over Europe, and Africa. This permanent contemplation and profound reflection has resulted in several photo publications, and solo as well as collective exhibitions, commissioned by different institutions, curators, researchers, and other artists.
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