Photographs of the Revolution on display at the Almeida Moreira Museum (Viseu)

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This Tuesday, the museum opens the exhibition “A photographer in the Revolution” with images by photographer Sérgio Valente. The exhibition recalls several events and personalities in the years before and after the Carnation Revolution

Photographer: Sérgio Valente

The Almeida Moreira Museum, in Viseu, opens this Tuesday (April 30) the exhibition “A photographer in the Revolution” with images by photographer Sérgio Valente. The exhibition recalls several events and personalities in the years before and after the Carnation Revolution.

The inauguration is scheduled for 3pm tomorrow. The exhibition consists of several photographs, in color and black and white, taken by Sérgio Valente between 1964 and 1982 in the city and district of Porto.

Sérgio Valente was born in the undefeated city, in the midst of a dictatorship, into a needy and politically awakened family, and early on began social and political participation that became increasingly active and was marked by three moments: the electoral campaign of General Humberto Delgado in 1958; the successful attempt not to be mobilized for the Colonial War and the three arrests he was subjected to by PIDE in 1969, 1971 and 1973.

A photographer by profession, he discovered in his camera a weapon with enormous potential for denunciation and memory. The exhibition can be visited at the Almeida Moreira Museum until June 1st.