Work by Alfredo Cunha makes “a portrait of a place that was Portugal in the 70s” (with photos)

Around four dozen photographs by photojournalist Alfredo Cunha, which create “a portrait of an entire place that was Portugal in the 70s” will be on display at the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, starting on Saturday.

Entitled “The Time of All Questions”, the exhibition will open on March 16th and can be visited until October, at the Art and Culture Center (CAC) of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation (FEA).

As curator Patrícia Reis explained to us, this exhibition “is a way of remembering and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April”, and is also “a way of thinking about what this country was like and what it was like 50 years ago.”

There are 36 photographs “of children who, although some scenario may seem very miserable, are effectively children who have their future in their hands, they are children who have the purity to be able to ask all the questions and, therefore, it is an exhibition that I would say which is about freedom, the freedom of what comes next, the freedom of time, but it is also an exhibition with hope”, said the curator.

Patrícia Reis states that “Alfredo Cunha, an iconic photographer, because he was 20 years old when he was hit by the 25th of April, comes from a family that had a business photographing weddings, parties and baptisms, his grandfather was a photographer, his father was also he starts photographing these children on the street, because they were his friends”.

“We have field photographs, we have city photographs, we have photographs that portray an entire place that was Portugal in the 70s and in a slightly different way to what we are used to in terms of what is seen and what is displayed”, he highlighted. .

According to Patrícia Reis, the images presented “are almost childish, in some way very naive, with very hopeful looks”, highlighting that “Alfredo sent us hundreds of photographs and it was the children who somehow stood out, because these are the heirs of democracy, they are truly those who asked all the questions for the future, because they could ask them”.

The curator concluded by saying that the exhibition “tells a story from the 1970s, through 36 photographs, all of them with a common trait: the eyes of those who were children on the 25th of April”.