Photographer Luiz Carvalho revisits Portugal’s post-revolution years in new exhibition

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Photographer Luiz Carvalho revisits Portugal’s post-revolution years in new exhibition  As part of the "50DE25" exhibition at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in Lisbon, Luiz Carvalho, one of the biggest names in Portuguese photojournalism, tells Euronews Culture discusses the stories behind some of his favourite pictures.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/24/photographer-luiz-carvalho-revisits-portugals-post-revolution-years-in-new-exhibition  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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00:00For me, this photograph

00:28This photograph

00:29Resume very much what were those days of great joy

00:33When I see this military truck

00:36With the soldiers there

00:38At the end of the air

00:40When I see the men in the air

00:42When I see the men in the air

00:44The other officer in front of the cabin

00:48The car is also doing the victory

00:52For me, it is a photograph

00:55From the aesthetic

00:57Of the narrative

00:58Perfect

00:59And I think

01:00There is nothing more

01:02And nothing more

01:03That is not

01:04This was the arrival

01:07Of the first Navy of Tropes

01:09In Guinea

01:10And it was incredible

01:11As people who were waiting for the soldiers

01:14And it was also notable

01:15How the soldiers

01:16Trazied a t-shirt

01:18Do Amilcar Cabral

01:20And the PAIGC

01:21Aquells

01:22Aquells

01:23Daquells

01:24Com quem

01:25Estado a lutar

01:26Promenores do cinto

01:27Com duas pistolas cruzadas

01:28E depois também

01:30Traziam animais selvagens

01:32so that was very normal at that time, and people.

01:38This photograph is a portrait of what was the Portuguese people.

01:43One of the photographs that I think more sensibility is this of Carlos Paredes,

01:47already made in 1982, but in which Carlos Paredes,

01:53although famous and protagonist of the Revolution,

01:57continued to work with a manga of alpaca in the Hospital of São José.

02:01But then we have more figures.

02:03One is Amália, which is not much a figure of the 25th of April.

02:07As you know, she even went against the Revolution,

02:13but the truth is that she integrated very well in what was...

02:17She survived to the 25th of April.

02:19Her work survived.

02:22She also became adopted by those singers

02:26who played and sang the ballads of intervention.

02:32We have here these four photographs.

02:36This is one of the last, which was made by Álvaro Cunhal.

02:40Then we have Vasco Gonçalves, which I photographed in his house,

02:44after the madness of Prec,

02:46the Jéssara Margo, a figure with whom I never sympathized from a personal perspective.

02:52And we ended up with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa,

02:56in his office, in Lapa, with Fernando Pessoa as moldura.

03:02Let's see.

03:04I'm thinking about that.

03:06I'm thinking about that.

03:08I'm thinking about that.

03:10That's how I can make a sad dream.

03:12I'm thinking about that.

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