Traditional olive harvesting in Trás-os-Montes

Images that transport us to other time.
The olive harvest has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Machines began to replace people and began changing work modes.

The way thet this tradition was alive was passing it from generation to generation, parents taught their children year after year. Today this cycle stopped, the olive harvest is mechanized and this knowledge falls invariably in oblivion.

With this documentary the author intends to keep a faithful retracto one way of doing things forgotten, lost in time.

This documentary shows how for centuries the olive is picked up from the buckling to the traditional clean, is a trip to the past, a trip to a time still alive in the memories of many.


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September 2012 – Portugal (Tras os Montes ) Making bread on centenary hoven

This series was made in a community oven with more than 200 years old. Although in poor condition, the oven is used from time to time for special ocasions.

I grew up in this environment, involved by it and now I see it all disappear. I intend to create a turning point, freeze those moments in time to be able to show and explain them in other time.

On the process of making bread is a deep knowledge and a tradition passed down from generation to generation. In Mourão no one makes bread. This knowledge and tradition are lost in time: they are past, hopefully never forgotten.



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Traditional plowing

I went to Mourão and find João at 7 pm. I asked him where he was going.
- Look're plowing afternoon. The land're f ***dry, leaving lumps of 50 KG.
I will now take  Lazão (his horse) and will plow the land! But now everything is f*** dry again.

ME - I'm going with you then.

This series was made in photographic unfavorable circumstances . The light was low and unstable.
I tried to capture all the stages from which we get the horse, until leaving the slough.

I had to continuously adjust the machine settings to compensate for the decrease of  daylight.
The last one I put it on the blog to tell the story ends. It was taken without a tripod, now completely night. With a very high ISO had to still use too low speeds without a tripod advisable nothing much less moving subjects. The photograph becomes stronger with contextualized meaning.

Plowing, seek, take Lazão, smoking a cigarette and talking time spent running. Our eyes became accustomed to the darkness that is not interrupted after 9 pm hours watering the garden. We reached home by 9:30 pm, a quiet night, clear with temperatures in July.

"Sometimes when I walk around this lands and realize it's 11 pm, i see everything on it like daylight" (João)


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Trawl fishing

Pure pleasure ...

I got up early, I wanted to catch the first light and make a full report of all phases of this method of fishing, from the moment that cast a net into the sea to fish be loaded for sale.

In the first photo the light was poor, taking pictures without light and moving subjects are not ideal conditions.

The strings were collected with a calm and slowness impressive. When the first network was collected, the morning light was at its best, the reflections and contrasts began to have color and depth.

It was a pleasure to photograph this abundance of content, movement, color and life.
A special thanks to the entire community, taking part in this collection and allow its disclosure.


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DOUROVALLEY

This series was done for 3 days at 13 º RAID TT Douro Superior (2012). 3 days were shooting one of the most beautiful in the world!

Days were (too) sunny clear sky not god for photography. There were photographs taken without tripod or planned in advance. The goal was to photograph the raid, but this Douro leaves no one indifferent.

I will soon publish another series of these three days. I appreciate the patience of the driver of the car broom, some photographs always need a little more time. Thank you to those who wait :).

There is much to say about the Douro and its people. In this series I chose landscape images and a taste of some flowers.


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