Loulé is the next stop on the “Photographic Trip to the Algarve”

The exhibition “Photographic trip to the Algarve” will open this Wednesday, October 4th, at 17pm, at the Loulé Municipal Library – Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, in Loulé.

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.

In the excerpt he dedicates to the then town of Loulé, Saramago fails to visit its most emblematic churches: the Igreja Matriz, the Igreja de Misericórdia and Nossa Senhora da Conceição. If you were to return today, there would be many reasons to linger a little longer in this city, including a visit to the Convento da Graça and the Islamic Baths and Casa Senhorial dos Barreto, classified in July as a National Monument.

The Algarve photographer André Boto, distinguished by the FEP – Federation of Professional European Photographers, as “European Photographer of the Year” in 2023, participates in the project with the photography of Silves and with the editing of the remaining photographs selected for the exhibition.

The “Photographic Journey to the Algarve” exhibition has already visited Vila Real de Santo António, Castro Marim, Lepe (Spain), Olhão and Alcoutim, and will cover all the municipalities that make up the “Saramago Literary Route in the Algarve”.

The exhibition will be open to the public until October 31st.

The exhibition is promoted by the Algarve Regional Directorate of Culture (DRCAlg) and the Loulé City Council.