Portrait nominee

"Taking the leap" or "go assault" are terms often used to denote the phenomenon of illegal immigration to France, which occurred mostly during the 60s.
This phenomenon was extremely important for Portugal sociocultural, because beyond our contibutions brought by immigrants to their homelands, was forever changed French genealogy, where today you can usually find family names of Portuguese origin, fruit of generations of pioneer heritage.
This work aims to rescue a visual memory alive, through testimonies of people who were part of this history, and the specific locations used for crossing the border, related to Vila Nova de Cerveira. The same was performed on a medium format camera 6x6 film analog and ISO 3200 sensitivity.

Bruno Fonseca is a Portuguese photographer born in 1972. Following his great passion, he took a professional photography course at the Portuguese Institute of Photography (IPF) between 2005 and 2007, and immediately began working as a freelancer.
He has been living in Angola since 1995, starting to collaborate with the Portuguese News Agency (LUSA) until 2011, being represented by the 4SEE Agency since 2012.
Passionate traveler, your photos capture the new, the surprise and respond to the senses: Look, for the first time, feel, for the first time, falling in love for the first time. His work in documentary photography has focused mainly on the social and cultural aspects of communities in Portugal and Angola.
He has been present at collective and solo exhibitions in Portugal, Slovakia, Angola and Australia and his work has been published regularly in the main Portuguese newspapers / magazines and in several international media.
He participated in an Artistic Residency of the Biennial Foundation of Cerveira, having developed a documentary work of memory on the Salto: phenomenon of illegal emigration to France in the decade of the 70, having been selected to be present in the XVIII Biennial of Cerveira of 2015.