Luísa Ferreira: a sensitive photography

Authors

  • José Oliveira Instituto de História da Arte, FCSH/NOVA/UNL Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/fotocinema.30.2025.21127

Keywords:

Luísa Ferreira, photography, Lisbon, Territory, memory, identity, gentrification

Abstract

The interview with Luísa Ferreira aims to reveal the key areas of her photographic work which, beginning in the mid-1980s, has spanned more than 35 years of activity, both in the field of photojournalism as well as in the development of personal projects and commissions from different entities.

In the transition between the last two decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century, the city and social environment of Lisbon, where she was born and lives, has undergone profound changes that have been recorded by her documentary and critical eye, which she describes in various photographic series.

With a personal taste for geography (she attended university), she tries to find out how this area of knowledge has influenced her work, as well as her visual references from other artistic practices.

It is clear from her statement that Luísa Ferreira is particularly attentive to her day-to-day life and sensitive to friendship and affection, which in some way also shapes several of her works.

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Author Biography

José Oliveira, Instituto de História da Arte, FCSH/NOVA/UNL

Biographical note:
José Oliveira holds a PhD in Contemporary Art History and is a researcher at the Institute of Art History (FCSH-UNL).
He has been a fellow at the Portuguese Photography Center and the Foundation for Science and Technology in various multi-year research projects related to photography in Portugal. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at NOVA University of Lisbon in the doctoral program "Artistic Studies - Arts and Mediations" (2018-2023) and of Photography and Visual Culture at other higher education institutions.
He is a curator and external collaborator of the Center for Modern Art of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, having produced several texts for catalogs and exhibitions.

References

Duchamp, M. (1990). Engenheiro do Tempo Perdido. Entrevistas com Pierre Cabanne, Assírio & Alvim.

Saraiva, António e Gomes, Manuel (2010). Orlando Ribeiro, Itinerâncias de um Geógrafo. Portugal: B´lizzard - Criatividade, Comunicação e Serviços, Lda e Pedro Canavilhas.

Published

2025-01-30

How to Cite

Oliveira, J. (2025). Luísa Ferreira: a sensitive photography. Fotocinema. Revista científica De Cine Y fotografía, (30), 357–372. https://doi.org/10.24310/fotocinema.30.2025.21127