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João Pina

Tarrafal

João Pina

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English
GOST Books
24 October 2024
Photographic reportage
The visual history of the camp is told through the only known photographs taken inside the Tarrafal camp, combined with correspondence, archives, objects and Pina’s own contemporary photographs. Collectively these materials create a new dialogue about the Portuguese fascist regime of the past—and the resistance to it—on the 50th anniversary of its demise.

In 1949, Pina’s grandfather Guilherme da Costa Carvalho—a young communist militant— was sent to the camp. Later that year Guilherme’s parents were granted unprecedented permission to visit their son and using a Rolleiflex camera they photographed all the living prisoners and the graves of the ones who had died in the camp. This extensive visual record—the only one ever made inside the concentration camp—was created with the intent of reporting back to the families of the other prisoners held in the camp or had died there.

Seventy years later, in 2019, Pina began investigating a box in his family archive containing the negatives, contact sheets, vintage prints of these pictures made inside the camp, along with related letters and telegrams sent from his grandfather.
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Imprint:   GOST Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 186mm, 
ISBN:   9781915423375
ISBN 10:   1915423376
Pages:   284
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

João Pina,( b. Portugal in 1980) began working as a professional photographer at the age of eighteen, and graduated from the ICP’s Photojournalism and Documentary Photography programme in New York in 2005. His photographs have been published internationally in outlets including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Time magazine, National Geographic magazine, GEO, Stern magazine, El Pais and Le Monde and the subject of numerous international exhibitions.

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