Think about the future: Porto's photography biennale imagines 'tomorrow today'
Porto’s Bienal’25 Fotografia has gathered international artists and curators across multiple venues in the city to look through the lens of the future to capture visions of themes ranging from climate change and post-colonial legacies to gender and migration.
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Porto’s Bienal’25 Fotografia has gathered international artists and curators across multiple venues in the city to look through the lens of the future to capture visions of themes ranging from climate change and post-colonial legacies to gender and migration.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/03/think-about-the-future-portos-photography-biennale-imagines-tomorrow-today
Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.
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00:27We have the artists working through photography to actually provide alternative visions of maybe the way the world is.
00:35And the artists are really working with very current issues from post-colonial legacy in this edition to migration, genocide, the issue really of identity and gender is all embedded in this particular Biennale.
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01:07The project was developed with a collaborative practice between artists, curators, communities, entities.
01:17And this collaborative practice, the outcomes are plural visions, but with common purpose.
01:25This vision really highlights the role of art and culture as a driver for social and ecological transformation.
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01:53Photography is not anymore photography. I always think and I have the idea that photography is not enough.
02:01Photographers today are about to tell stories and stories are complex and each story needs sometimes archival material, sometimes video, sometimes sound.
02:13So the notion of photography has been now turned, I would say, into the idea of the image.
02:18So the image itself could be a moving image, could be also a stage image and then we could mix.
02:24Some of them work with images, they have some, their books are present in these exhibitions.
02:29You can, you are able to see their work as publication and then that work would also jump into the idea of the audiovisual or the visual elements that you've been able to see.
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02:59So the work I showed here is called, it's titled, Between Two Trees and Many Worlds.
03:03And it's about how climate change-induced ecological disaster is observed and experienced through different scales.
03:10So on a micro scale, there's the beetle and the tree.
03:14On the human scale, there's me in the forest experiencing the death of the forest.
03:19And on a larger scale, it's in terms of remote sensing and satellite imaging, how these technologies is helping us monitor and understand climate change.
03:28Even though these are very specific issues that are happening in this very specific region, there are also issues that can be extrapolated to all around the world.
03:56The toxicity and runoff and contamination and who's responsible, which country, when it passes over a border.
04:06Those are problems that are happening all around the world.
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