“a space revisited”
“Braço de Prata” Military Plant

The idea for ​​this project was born on a exploratory ride on the eastern zone of Lisbon, and by the attention I always deserved to the numerous areas, once built with factories and warehouses, which, between the Tagus river and the hills, mediate the prime area of ​​the city and the buildings adjacent to the novel Parque das Nações.

The search for meaning in the passage of time, the ephemeral that affects us day-by-day, the big changes and transitions that run through society as a whole, always deserved great attention from me.

The life experiences have redoubled this search for meaning, which is focused on two major concerns, deeply interconnected: on one hand, I’m interested in the human experiences, by reading and observing documents which, in text or image, enable to (re)construct the past, and, on the other side, the search for the ephemeral in objects, buildings, spaces, has served for a better understanding of those experiences.

Photography, while archive, has served this dual purpose of understanding the past, throughout the images that I gather and see in family documents or other supports, but has primarily served as a mean to capture the passage of time, by reading the traces they present nowadays.


The photographic reading I have undertaken on “Braço de Prata” Military Plant, more than a systematic survey of a rundown area, was an attempt to understand everything that justified it in the past, from labour between man and machine, which filled now empty rooms.