A 3-volume publication | 2 photobooks softcover with flaps | 1 volume with photographs and texts in Portuguese and English | 324 pages | 244 × 297 mm | sold only as a set
The publication with a full overview of the portuguese prison photo project was published on 25 October 2024.
Volume 1: 144 pages, 88 black and white photographs from Luis Barbosa, taken 2016–2023 in the prisons (Estabelecimento Prisional) of Beja, Guarda, Évora, Leiria (Jovens), Odemira, Silves, Viseu.
Volume 2: 144 pages, 164 Color photographs from Peter Schulthess, taken 2016–2022 in the prisons of Carregueira, Izeda, Lisboa, Pinheiro de Cruz, Ponta Delgada (Açores), Porto, Santa Cruz do Bispo (feminino).
Volume 3: 36 pages, 54 pictures. Concept and history of the project, conferences. Exhibitions at the Centro Português de Fotografia in Porto 2017, at the Museo do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade in Lisbon 2019, at the National Archives Torre do Tombo 2021, and at the Museu de Portimão in 2024. Description of the prisons and legends of the photographs in volumes 1 and 2. All texts by Daniel Fink, Gilda Santos, Mélanie M. Tiago and Cândido da Agra are in Portuguese and English.
The publication can be ordered from United Kingdom (ISBN 978-3-905731-14-9) online over the website of University of Porto Press. See
For Portugal and other countries except Switzerland please send orders to the University of Porto Press (ISBN 978-989-746-390-7).
Previous publications
2 books of conference proceedings | One volume of the international conference 2017 in Porto | One volume of the international conference 2019 in Lisbon
The international conference 2017 in Porto, which was held as part of the exhibition the portuguese prison photo project, covered topics of prisons, culture and photography, with contributions from several European countries. In Portuguese and English.
the portuguese prison photo project - Atas da Conferência / Maria José Moutinho Santos et al.
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The international conference 2019 in Lisbon, which was held as part of the exhibition the portuguese prison photo project, dealt with topics such as the abolition of torture, the evolution of prison regimes and prison surveillance in Portugal and Switzerland.
the portuguese prison photo project - Monitoring of Prisons and Regimes of Monitoring. Daniel Fink (Ed.)
Available from U. Porto Press