Talk of the Terraces with Ed Woodward for Telegraph Luxury.
Lorenzo Viotti in Lisbon for Financial Times.
DAM Designers for Le Monde.
From Oct 2021 to May 2022, I’ve curated a series of talks titled Fragilidade e Transitoriedade (Fragility and Transience) focused on the Community, and 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 Criatorio (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 and everyone who participated in the talks and portfolio reviews.
Featured on WÜL Magazine with an interview by Nastasia Khmelnitski.
Behind the Hill published in Youthies Magazine n3, The Folkloric Issue.
I’ve been shortlisted to the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2020 by Fannie Escoulen, former deputy director of Le Bal and independent curator.
Behind the Hill published in the South Korean magazine MAPS #140.
The Buzzer on Publico P3 by Ana Maria Henriques.
A Glitch in the System exhibition curated by Alessia Glaviano and Francesca Marani on Photo Vogue Festival from 14–17 Nov at BASE in Milan.
The dummy book of The Buzzer has also been shortlisted for the Fiebre Photobook Dummy Award, and can be seen in Madrid during the festival from 25-27 October.
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 19–22 September.
Elastic Forms, Elastic Visions on Lens Culture by Sophie Wright.
Senior curator Karen McQuaid about The New Talent 2019 on view at The Photographers’ Gallery from 14 Jun to 6 Oct 2019. Join us on July 18 at 6pm to find more about the projects.
Meet Eight of Tomorrow’s Most Exciting Young Photography Talents on Hero Magazine.
I’m one of the artists selected by Jim Goldberg for The Photographers’ Galery New Talent 2019. The exhibition curated by Karen McQuaid is on view from 14 Jun to 6 Oct 2019.
The Buzzer is among the selected winners of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2019.
Fotografia + Arquitectura
Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design (ESMAD) on June 6 (15h30)
Álvaro Domingues, José Maçãs de Carvalho, Marta Ferreira, Miguel Proença, Sérgio Rolando
in conversation with Ângela Ferreira
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.
The Photographers’ Gallery reveals the eight artists it plans to support in 2019 on Creative Boom.
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.
Imagens do Real Imaginado – Fluxos
Pós-Academia: A prática artística posterior à formação
Biblioteca Almeida Garrett, Porto on October 30 at 15h30
in conversation with João Leal
Hiraeth USW MA Documentary Graduate Show
University of South Wales, MA Documentary Photography
From 4–7 Oct 2018, Truman Brewery T4 – 91 Brick Ln, London E1 6QR
Behind the Hill on It’s Nice That by Billie Muraben.
The Buzzer was selected for the SOURCE Graduate photography issue 2018.
Been shortlisted for the BJP Fractured Stories, a British Journal of Photography commission about fracking in the UK supported by Ecotricity.
A Tension Span USW MA Documentary Show
University of South Wales, MA Documentary Photography
From 11–14 July 2018 at Ffotogallery – 29 Castle St, Cardiff CF10 1BZ
Currently showing work at RAVE Projeto 18, a group show of Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design (ESMAD). From 7 Jul–16 Sep 2018 at Centro Português de Fotografia (CPF) in Porto.
I’m grateful to have been awarded a Gulbenkian Scholarship to study on the MA in Documentary Photography at the University of South Wales (formerly Newport).
Common Thinking will be a long 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.
BASE Milano – via Bergognone 34 – Sala Principale/Cortile
5 June 2017 from 21:00 – 01.00
Free Entrance
Letters from Lisbon for Christie’s Magazine. A typographical tour of a city written by Steven King.
The Portuguese Experiment for Internazionale.
New collaboration with Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto (MHNC-UP) and Colectivo, about museum’s large renovation project underway until 2017.
Been awarded the VSCO Artist Initiative Grant to work on a collective project about the EU borderlines.
Encontros da Imagem 2015
Collective exhibition Thin Line with Lara Jacinto, Antonio Pedrosa and Tommaso Rada
From 25 Sep–31 Oct, Museu de Arqueologia D. Diogo de Sousa, Braga
Curated by Pedro Leão Neto
Kingdom for a Stage at Fotoweek DC
Group exhibition of Contemporary Iberoamerican Photography
From 6–28 Nov 2015 at Hillyer Art Space, 9 Hillyer Court NW, Washington, DC 20008
Curated by Susana Raab
Sala de Festas on Ain’t Bad by Carson Sanders.
Living with the Dead — Inside Cairo’s Necropolis Inhabited by Thousands of People on FotoRoom.
I’m showing work at the group exhibition A Process curated by Der Greif at Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus. From 28 Mar–18 May at Maximilianstraße 48, 86150 Augsburg, Germany.
Behind the Hill published in OjodePez Magazine #36, selected among the portfolio reviews of PhotoEspaña in Madrid (Descubrimientos) and America (Trasatlántica).
On Conscientions blog 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.”
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).