NEWS

“Le Jour il fait Nuit”
with Adriana João, Anne Lefebvre, Cristiana Ortiga, Diogo Simões, Fala Mariam, Leonardo Martins, Mariana Maia Rocha, Marta Mateus, Pedro Leitão, Rui Moreira. Curated by André Cepeda, the group show is part of the Ciclo da Cobra project, from 22 Feb–5 Apr, Kubikgallery, Porto
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15.10.2021

EDO Fragilidade & Transitoriedade

From October 2021 to May 2022, I’ve curated a series of talks titled Fragilidade e Transitoriedade (Fragility and Transience), taking place at Instituto Português de Fotografia (Porto). The talks included the following artists, curators and editors: Awa Konaté, Ben Krewinkel and Desirée Desmarattes; Anthony Luvera; Josh Lustig; Haley-Morris Cafiero; Jim Goldberg and Alessandra Sanguinetti; Ana Catarina Pinho, Pablo Berástegui, Susana Lourenço Marques and Tiago Casanova. The programme was supported by Plaka (Porto) and sponsored by Ricoh and Sandeman.

Programme:
21 Oct – Decolonise/Re-Activate: Archives and Representation
with Awa Konaté and Ben Krewinkel, in conversation with Desirée Desmarattes

18 Nov – Photography and Social Activism
with Anthony Luvera

24 Feb – Female Body and Social Construction
with Haley Morris-Cafiero

24 Mar – Photography and the Community
with Jim Goldberg and Alessandra Sanguinetti (Magnum Photos)

28 Apr – Photobook à La Portugaise
with Ana Catarina Pinho (Archivo), Susana Lourenço Marques (Pierrot Le Fou) and Tiago Casanova (XYZ Books) in conversation with Pablo Berástegui (Salut au Monde)

26 May – Commissioning Photography
with Josh Lustig (Financial Times)

Thank you to the team involved and to everyone who participated in the talks and portfolio reviews.

4.4.2021

WÜL Magazine

Portfolio and interview by Nastasia Khmelnitski.

10.5.2020

Youthies Magazine

Behind the Hill published in The Folkloric Issue S/S 2020.

26.2.2020

Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2020

I’ve been nominated to the 25th edition of Prix HSBC pour la Photographie by Fannie Escoulen, former deputy director of Le Bal and independent curator.

15.1.2020

MAPS Magazine

Behind the Hill in MAPS Magazine, January 2019, volume 140

13.11.2019

Publico P3

The Buzzer on Publico P3 by Ana Maria Henriques.

5.11.2019

A Glitch in the System

Photo Vogue Festival curated by Alessia Glaviano and Francesca Marani
November 14–17, 2019
BASE, Via Bergognone 34, Milan, IT

9.10.2019

Fiebre Photobook Dummy Award 2019

The dummy book of The Buzzer has been shortlisted for the Fiebre Photobook Dummy Award 2019, and can be seen in Madrid during the festival from October 25-27.

10.9.2019

Unseen Dummy Award 2019

The dummy book of my long-term project The Buzzer has been shortlisted for the Unseen Dummy Award 2019, and can be seen during the book market at Unseen Amsterdam from September 19–22.

20.7.2019

Lens Culture

Elastic Forms, Elastic Visions on Lens Culture by Sophie Wright.

26.6.2019

The Photographers’ Gallery New Talent 2019

Senior curator Karen McQuaid about the exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery from June 14 to October 6, 2019. Join us on July 18 at 6pm to find more about the projects.

13.6.2019

Hero Magazine

Meet Eight of Tomorrow’s Most Exciting Young Photography Talents on Hero Magazine.

8.6.2019

The Photographers’ Gallery New Talent 2019

I’m among the artists selected for The Photographers’ Galery New Talent 2019. The exhibition curated by Karen McQuaid is on view from June 14 to October 6, 2019.

5.6.2019

Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2019

The Buzzer is among the selected winners of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2019.

25.5.2019

Fotografia + Arquitectura ESMAD

Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design (ESMAD)
Álvaro Domingues, José Maçãs de Carvalho, Marta Ferreira, Miguel Proença, Sérgio Rolando
in conversation with Ângela Ferreira on June 6 – 15h30

10.5.2019

Another Mag

Ten Photographers to Have on Your Radar by Jacob Charles Wilson.

7.5.2019

Riga Photomonth 2019

The Buzzer will be shown on the projection Eating Pineapples on the Moon taking place during the opening of Riga Photomonth on May 15 at the Kaņepes Culture Centre in Riga, Latvia.

15.4.2019

Creative Boom

The Photographers’ Gallery reveals the eight artists it plans to support in 2019 on Creative Boom.

22.2.2019

MACK First Book Award 2019

The dummy book of my long-term project The Buzzer was shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award 2019, and it will be exhibited during Photo London from 16–19 May 2019.

19.10.2018

Imagens do Real Imaginado – Fluxos

Pós-Academia: A prática artística posterior à formação
Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto on October 30 – 15h30
in conversation with João Leal

25.9.2018

Hiraeth – USW MA Documentary Graduate Show

University of South Wales, MA Documentary Photography
From 4–7 October 2018, Truman Brewery T4
91 Brick Ln, London E1 6QR, UK

22.8.2018

It’s Nice That

Behind the Hill on It’s Nice That by Billie Muraben.

10.8.2018

SOURCE Magazine

Graduate Photography, Autumn 2018

30.7.2018

BJP Fractured Stories

Been shortlisted for the British Journal of Photography + Ecotricity commission about fracking in the UK.

5.7.2018

A Tension Span – USW MA Documentary Show

University of South Wales, MA Documentary Photography
July 11–14, 2018 at Ffotogallery
29 Castle St, Cardiff CF10 1BZ, UK

25.6.2018

RAVE Projecto 18

Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design (ESMAD)
July 7 – September 16, 2018
Centro Português de Fotografia (CPF), Porto

15.6.2017

Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship

I’m grateful to have been awarded a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship to study on the MA in Documentary Photography at the University of South Wales (formerly Newport).

28.5.2017

Common Thinking

Video projection starring groups of young photographers representing the most significant and contemporary projects and languages. Collectives are the alternative to agencies, new forms of association that allow photographers to produce ideas and projects, distribute them and find financing. Common Thinking is curated by Cesura (an Italian collective) for Milano PhotoWeek, and will allow us to meet, among others, the French Fractures, the Portuguese Colectivo, the Peruvian Versus Photo, the Serbian Kamerades, and the American MJR. The evening will be introduced by a dialogue led by Alessandra Capodacqua, with photographers from the Italian collectives Cesura, Riverboom and Terra Project.

June 5, 2017 from 21:00 – 01.00
BASE, via Bergognone 34, Milan – Sala Principale/Cortile

5.4.2017

Christie’s Magazine

Letters from Lisbon with Steven King for Christie’s Magazine, April 2017.

3.3.2017

Internazionale

The Portuguese Experiment in Lisbon for Internazionale.

22.2.2016

VSCO Artist Initiative

Been awarded the VSCO Artist Initiative Grant to work on a collective project about the EU borderlines.

20.9.2015

Encontros da Imagem 2015

Thin Line – with Lara Jacinto, Antonio Pedrosa and Tommaso Rada 
September 25–October 31, 2015
Museu de Arqueologia D. Diogo de Sousa, Braga, PT
Curated by Pedro Leão Neto

14.9.2015

Fotoweek DC 2015

Kingdom for a Stage – Contemporary Iberoamerican Photography
November 6–28, 2015
Hillyer Art Space, 9 Hillyer Court NW, Washington, DC 20008
Curated by Susana Raab

28.6.2015

Ain’t Bad

Sala de Festas on Ain’t Bad by Carson Sanders.

9.5.2015

FotoRoom

Living with the Dead — Inside Cairo’s Necropolis Inhabited by Thousands of People on FotoRoom.

15.3.2014

Der Greif – A Process

March 28–May 18, 2013
Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus
Maximilianstraße 48, 86150 Augsburg, DE
Curated by Der Greif

15.2.2013

OjodePez Magazine: Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña 2013

Behind the Hill published in OjodePez Magazine #36, selected among the portfolio reviews of PhotoEspaña in Madrid (Descubrimientos) and America (Trasatlántica).

22.5.2012

Conscientious

With nice words by Jörg Colberg: “It’s hard to pick just one photograph from Miguel Proenca’s Behind the Hill, but I figured this one would do. Faith and superstition (or rather their remnants) in the modern world.”

25.3.2012

Estação Imagem 2012

Been awarded the first prize of the daily life category at Prémio Estação Imagem 2012, the jury was composed by Emilio Morenatti (NPPA), Frédérique Babin (Le Monde Magazine), Patrick Baz (Agence France Press), Marion Durand (Newsweek) and Arianna Rinaldo (Ojodepez). 

6.5.2011

RAVE Projecto 11

Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo (ESMAE)
July 9–September 11, 2011
Centro Português de Fotografia (CPF), Porto

MAMLUK

Cairo, 2013

MAMLUK

Cairo, 2013

INVENTÁRIO

Inventário is a collaboration with Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto (MHNC-UP) about the museum collections and its ongoing renovation process.

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in collaboration with MHNC-UP/Colectivo, June 2016

INVENTÁRIO

Inventário is a collaboration with Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto (MHNC-UP) about the museum collections and its ongoing renovation process.

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in collaboration with MHNC-UP/Colectivo, June 2016

SALA DE FESTAS

Portugal, 2013–

SALA DE FESTAS

Portugal, 2013–

BEHIND THE HILL

The birth of science was the death of superstition.
—Thomas Huxley (Darwin’s bulldog).

We always searched for answers.
Throughout history, through the ages, we have been continuously looking for ways to justify our existence, reasons to justify what our minds could not. Since ancient times, the idea of cosmos responded to the human need to rely on the order of nature and the world, that can link and put things in order. However, this concept evolved through different civilisations and eras, the dawn of monotheism gave ground to the divine.

Healers, men and women of faith, said to hold the cure for all ills, to have the answers to all concerns. Bearers of wisdom that ordinary mortals could envision without ever understanding. Today, they seem to have disappeared, driven into obscurity by the impetus of scientific progress, remain there, hidden from the gaze of modern world.

Behind the Hill documents the healer’s practice and its deep connection to the native landscapes and plants of northeastern Portugal. In the physical and mystical realm, scenes often relate to nature and superstition. Proença catalogues rituals, artefacts, and performances linked to the land—overlooked by the western cumulative model of resource exploitation. The project points to the ongoing tension between technology and the natural world, it also explores humanity’s enduring quest for answers beyond purely an empirical framework.

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The series was exhibited during The New Talent (TNT 2019) at The Photographers’ Gallery.

2011–2019

BEHIND THE HILL

The birth of science was the death of superstition.
—Thomas Huxley (Darwin’s bulldog).

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The series was exhibited during The New Talent (TNT 2019) at The Photographers’ Gallery.

2011-2019

THE BUZZER

There is a bear in the woods.
For some people, the bear is easy to see. Others don’t see it at all.
Some people say the bear is tame. Others say it’s vicious and dangerous.
Since no one can really be sure who’s right,
isn’t it smart to be as strong as the bear?
If there is a bear.

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In 2019 the dummy was shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award, Unseen Dummy Award and Fiebre Dummy Award, being exhibited at Photo London, Unseen Amsterdam and Fiebre Photobook Festival.

2015–2019

THE BUZZER

There is a bear in the woods.
For some people, the bear is easy to see.
Others don’t see it at all.
Some people say the bear is tame.
Others say it’s vicious and dangerous.
Since no one can really be sure who’s right,
isn’t it smart to be as strong as the bear?
If there is a bear.

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The dummy was shortlisted for the Unseen Dummy Award, Fiebre Dummy Award and MACK First Book Award in 2019, and exhibited at Unseen Amsterdam, Fiebre Madrid and Photo London.

2015–2019

SURFACE WORKERS MANUAL

Porto, 2019–

SURFACE WORKERS MANUAL

Porto, 2019—