“Under the surveillance of ancient animals” is a photography project in analog of 35mm I that developed during a year in a small village in northern Portugal, the place where I was born. This project works as little annotations of my return to this place and all the memories that I had of my experiences there. I was looking for paths, people and landscapes that are stowed in the past. This is a personal and umbilical project, a slow project that extends in time. I wanted to photograph the people, animals and objects that deeply belong to that place, to earth, as a primordial and eternal connection, and also the solitude, the silence, the force of nature.
Maria Oliveira
I was born in 1982 in Ponte de Lima. In 2005 I got a degree in Marketing in Universidade do Minho and currently live in Braga. In photography, I’m most interested in its documental side and in the umbilical places.
Weekend portfolio selected by Diane Dufour
