the portuguese prison photo project

Museo de Portimão 19.4. – 1.9.2024

Your guide through the exhibition

We welcome you to the exhibition the portuguese prison photo project. With the help of this multimedia guide, you will get more information about the project, the photographs, the photographers, but also about today’s prisons and the historical and political prisons in parts H and P of the room. Listen to us – preferably with your headphones. In general, the spoken text doesn’t last more than a minute.

i1.1 About the project

i1.1 About the project - the books

A publication of the portuguese prison photo project in three volumes is in preparation. Two volumes present hundreds of photographs from Luis Barbosa and Peter Schulthess. A third volume, written by Daniel Fink, Gilda Santos and Cândido da Agra, in Portuguese and English, describes the project, the exhibitions, the prisons and contains the legends of the photographs.

Release date planned for October 2024. Price and publisher will be communicated later.

A pre-sale (subscription) starts soon.
www.prisonphotoproject.pt/publications.html

i1.2 Luis Barbosa

B2.2 Lying in bed

B3.1 Making contact

B4 Behind bars

B5 Inner life

B6 Common cell

i1.2 Peter Schulthess

S1 Cells views

S3.1 Open cells

S3.2 Time to eat

S4 Projections

The projections show further images of the eight areas selected by the photographer Peter Schulthess from everyday life behind bars.

S5 Work

S6.1 Cell views – part 2

S6.2 Visits

S6.3 Architecture

S6.4 The guards

S7 Health services

i1.2 Historic Prisons Photographs

H1.25 Women in the Prison of Porto

H2.3 Prison of Porto

H2.9 Penitentiary of Lisbon

H2.13 Prison of Monsanto

H2.15 Regional Prisons

i1.2 Political Prisons

P1.9 Concentration Camp of Tarrafal, Cabo Verde

P1.16 Fort Peniche

P2.1 Prison of Aljube, Lisbon

P3.1 Headquarters of the PIDE, Lisbon

P3.6 Tarrafal never again!