A number of black and white images are being showcased in a photography exhibition entitled “New Independencies” by Portuguese photojournalist Alfredo Cunha at the Former Barra Slaughterhouse Site.
Held until Sunday, the exhibition, which features just some of the thousands of images shot by Cunha throughout his over 50-year career, is the second of three exhibitions in the ongoing 14th Macau Literary Festival, which held its opening ceremony on Friday and ends on Sunday.
Curated by Macau-based Portuguese lensman João Miguel Barros, a lawyer by profession, his curator statement displayed at the venue noted that Cunha is “widely regarded as one of the most prominent figures in the realm of Portuguese photography”.
Cunha has travelled the entirety of Portugal and, prior to the April 1974 Carnation Revolution, had photographed the countries then still under Portuguese colonial rule, according to the statement. The exhibition aims to be seen as a celebration and tribute to people, places and the future, as well as photography, the statement added.
The statement said that the exhibition was supposed to be part of a larger one that has meanwhile been postponed until next year’s festival, adding that though its size has been reduced, its ambition has not.
One can visit the gallery from noon until 7 p.m. throughout the exhibition period.
Meanwhile, the festival will be focusing on screenings from today through Thursday, with a number of acclaimed films, shorts and documentaries to be shown at Capitol Theatre and The Portuguese Consulate General’s Auditorium.
Among the screenings that one can catch is Luís Filipe Rocha’s film “Love and Short Toes”, which will be shown at the Capitol Theatre on Rua de Pedro Nolasco da Silva (伯多祿局長街) today at 8:30 p.m. The film is in Portuguese, with no subtitles. More festival details and activities can be found on
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Photos taken on Friday by Rui Pastorin
