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A Slow Summer…

Returning to a Summer where a pandemic made me slow down.

The Purifying Fire

Fire as a central element of the Entrudo dos Máscaros de Vila Boa.

Demons of New Year

The pagan New Year traditions in Portugal's Mirandese Plateau

Festa dos Rapazes, or Young Men’s Festival – Ousilhão

Festa dos Rapazes, or Young Men's Festival, a winter solstice masked tradition that was "adopted" as Catholic, but with the boundaries of what's holy and pagan still very clear.

My weeks of confinement

A visual diary of my days, or weeks, under the Covid-19 confinement.

A flashback…

Remembering the first time I drove to the North of Portugal to shoot the Winter Solstice celebrations.