The exhibition “Photographic Journey to the Algarve” will open this Thursday, July 20, at 18 pm, at the Álvaro de Campos Municipal Library, in Tavira.
José Saramago, in his work “Journey to Portugal”, from 1981, traveled through several municipalities in the Algarve and visited some of the most emblematic places in the region.
More than 40 years later, the places visited by the Nobel Prize set the motto for the project “Photographic journey to the Algarve”, by Associação 1/4 Escuro – Association of Amateur Photographers of Vila Real de Santo António, in partnership with Taller Municipal de Photography from Lepe (Spain), with the support of DRCAlg.
The challenge launched to the photographers, who are part of the project, was to visit the Algarve municipalities and be inspired, photographically, by the texts written by José Saramago when he passed through the region.
Including the surroundings, Tavira has 37 churches, with Saramago visiting the Igreja da Luz de Tavira. In the exhibition, we can see a photograph of this church, by Manuel Rosa.
The photographer from the Algarve, André Boto, distinguished by the FEP – Federation of Professional European Photographers as “European Photographer of the Year” in 2023, participates in the project with Silves’ photography and with the editing of the remaining photographs selected for the exhibition.
The exhibition “Photographic Journey to the Algarve” has already visited Vila Real de Santo António, Castro Marim, Lepe (Spain) and Olhão, and will cover all the municipalities that make up the “Saramago Literary Route in the Algarve”.
The exhibition will be open until the 31st of July.
This project was supported by the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve.
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