FUTURES is a Europe-based photography platform bringing together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artists across the world. Since 2017, it aims to add long term value in empowering early and mid-career photographers – launching initiatives to promote their work and granting them access to an unprecedented network of professionals, markets and audiences.

Every year, the Futures members nominate a group of artists to join the platform. By bringing together a wealth of resources and curatorial expertise, each talent selected by the members gains access to an unprecedented network of professionals, markets and audiences. The platform aims to stimulate the photographic economy from the bottom up by expanding the market. Being selected within Futures is a proof of quality of the artists and increases their commercial opportunities.

Futures organizes a series of events across Europe within each of its member countries, online activities to professional and artistic development, and collaboration between art professional and our talents. Every year, they are all brought together at the Futures main event in the second semester. In this annual event, Futures offers workshops, portfolio reviews, coaching sessions, exhibitions and more.

Patience Gallery is an online gallery set up by the artist Georgia Watkins in 2022. It is a platform that allows for the exhibition of artwork as well as a showcase of written work. Still in its early stages, the Gallery aims to carry out ‘curatorial experiments’ to explore innovative ideas about what the gallery context is and how it can use art to create a dialogue around subjects. It is a community for both artists and art lovers to start conversations about artwork in an accessible context.

Transference Magazine is an online outlet and research platform with a focus on contemporary art and photography.

ADFPHOTO is a site where you can find information, news, and a personal reflection on Photographic Culture.
It is a place, not commercially or industrially linked to anything or anyone, where the author's vision and perspective on Photography is displayed and expressed.
It is a space edited and kept alive by Francisco González, an independent curator with over 30 years of experience in different areas of Photography.

The Estação project is being explored with the aim of promoting the work of national and international artists from various artistic areas, by holding several exhibitions and offering the municipality of Estarreja access to current cultural projects, while also ensuring the quality of the works showcased, from emerging artists in the artistic scene. This project provides a unique opportunity for residents in the parish and surrounding areas to consume art for free.

          

   
   

Project about three fishing communities that reflects the coexistence of people connected to the sea in these three places in the Porto Metropolitan Area.
It builds an interdisciplinary artistic practice, where photography, text, interviews, music and design coexist with the aim of raising the importance of the life stories of people with a personal and professional passion for the sea.
This project integrates a contemporary approach, in which two forms of photographic representation coexist that accompany the development of the history of photography, in these almost two centuries that it has existed: family or popular photography (as Liz Wells calls it, to avoid what she considers reductive in the popular term), which had an important contribution to the construction of photography and memory: and professional authorial and expository photography, which appears here with a contemporary interpretive intervention, carried out in the studio by five authors - photographers capable of live in contrast and harmony.

Photographers:

Helena Flores
Joana Dionísio
Luís Filipe Ribeiro
Olívia da Silva
Sérgio Rolando

Financiamento:
Norte 2020
Portugal 2020
Fundos Europeus Estruturais e de Investimento
Gal
P.Porto
ESMAD
Bind’ò peixe associação cultural

Publications:
Público: “O que o mar uniu, as fronteiras do Homem não podem separar” de Mariana Correia Pinto
Mais Semanário: “História de gentes do mar apresentadas em livro e exposição na Póvoa do Varzim”
Caxinas TV: Cobertura videográfica de Abraão Marques
Câmara de Matosinhos: “Projeto homenageia famílias de pescadores de Matosinhos, Vila do Conde e Póvoa de Varzim”
Câmara de Vila do Conde: “Apresentação do livro e inauguração da exposição Rostos da Maré no Centro de Memória de Vila do Conde”

     

   

   

   

  

Experimentalphotofestival is a non-profit cultural association based in Barcelona, Spain, whose objective is to create, promote and disseminate experimental photography in all its forms and throughout the world. It is responsible for the organization of the Experimental Photo Festival and the Ágora, school of experimentation.

The name Superpresent conveys multiple meanings. It could be something very much in the here and now, or something beyond the present state of being or thinking, or something surreal, or it could simply be a great and wonderful gift. In this sense, we seek to present poetry, essays, short stories, and visual arts that are compelling and in someway represent an aspect of the super present.

Biennial competition promoting cultural creation and valuing young creators, in which all finalist works are presented in an exhibition and the three best works are awarded a cash prize. The winner is also invited to exhibit this and other works in a municipal space.

  

Encontros da Imagem, with more than thirty years of existence, is a non-profit cultural association that promotes annually an International Photography and Visual Arts Festival in the city of Braga, Portugal. The festival celebrates classic and contemporary photography and visual arts in general by showcasing emerging and established artists.