Apresentação Pessoal

She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, where she teaches Photography and the History of Photography. Holding a PhD in Communication and Art from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the Nova University of Lisbon, she developed the thesis Photography-History, Thinking in Images: Contributions to Reading the History of Photographic Images in Portugal, 1839–1997 as a Hyperdocument (2016). She attended the Recherches Doctorales Libres program (2010/2011) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and was a Visiting Researcher at the George Eastman House, Rochester (2012). In 1998, she participated in the Erasmus program at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

She is a researcher and integrated member of I2ADS, where she was part of the research project team Bioimages: Production of Images and Their Capture Devices Through Ecological Processes, coordinated by Tiago Assis. She currently leads the project What They Saw, What We See — Women Photographers in Portugal, 1860–1920. She also coordinated the project Photographic Books in Portugal, 1860–1910 at the Institute of Art History (FCSH.UNL).

She is the author of the books Ether: A Photography and History Laboratory (Dafne, 2018), Dust, Ash, Fog: An Essay on Absence (2018), Crocodile Tears: Photography and Criticism in Portugal, 1980–2000 (2022), and co-editor of Photographic Books in Portugal: From the Revolution to the Present (2023) and Pedagogy of the Streets, Porto 1977(2019).

She has participated in conferences and published articles in specialized journals, including: The Grain of the Mountain: Notes on Photography and Extractivism (2023), Postcolonial Images: From the Carnation Revolution to Independence Processes. Propaganda, Resistance, and Freedom Works (1974–1984) (PERSPECTIVE, 2021, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris), Fleeting and Triumphal Images: Photographs and Films from the First Presidential Trip to the Colonies, 1938/39 — A Comparative Reading, Accattone/Pierrot le Fou: An Improbable Script (Centre Pompidou, 2019), and The Insurgence of Small Scale: Self-Publishing and Micro-Photography Publishing in Portugal (Serralves, 2019).

Curating and book editing have been central to her artistic work, with projects including: Who Taught You? — No One, by Elvira Leite (Exhibition Pavilion, FBA.UP, 2016); Portable Gallery PLF (Criatório, 2018); Pedagogy of the Streets, Porto 1977 (Mishkin Gallery, New York, 2019); Image/Technique: The Inventories of Emílio Biel (2019); Opacity of Water(2021); Eternal Youth (2023); In the Time of Slow Days (Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, 2023); and Portugal Year Zero(Centro de Arte Oliva, 2024).

In 2014, she co-founded the publishing house Pierrot le Fou (www.pierrotlefou.pt).

Áreas de Interesse

1. Humanities > Arts