IN COLORS PROJECT  |  REACT!

React! is a portrait of the human condition and the perception of the world, showing different speeds, multiple realities, encounters and inequalities, so many reactions.

The broadness to which the theme is open is represented in this set of 50 artworks by photographers from 22 nationalities. React! to what, from what perspective? The possibility of endless interpretations is mirrored in an exhibition in which the reaction is as much in the photographed "scene" itself as in the impression of the person who photographed it, and also, and always, in the eye of the person who appreciates the photograph. In this realm, there is the image of time and place, of many places and many qualities of time. There is the beauty of moments, spaces, cultures and traditions. There is a whole scale of emotions. There is the poetry of landscapes and the destruction wrought by war. There is fantasy in improbable scenarios. There are global concerns, personal instances. Sometimes the weight of existence; sometimes the lightness of laughter in the face of death. There remains, still, the certainty of a kaleidoscopic world, in permanent change, so that stories repeat themselves. Because man repeats himself. The continuity of life is also maintained. It is in the faces of many. It is in the colors. It is in the light of black and white. It is in the instinct. In the will. In what is lost, in what is conquered.

A wheat field resembling a musical score.

Wheat, sheep and a girl
| Anastasia Pinchuk

Wheat, sheep and a girl.

Ukraine, 2020

Anastasia Pinchuk | Ukraine

Walid Abu Rashid passes in front of the bombed buildings with his wooden board and a bag of toys. For the children who follow him, it is a relief from the war in Idlib. While they sing, the hand puppet theater brings out various animals.
Here, everyday life is unnatural. Bombs fall. Reality cannot be denied, but some try desperately to resist it with determination, hope, and a desire to live. This project illustrates the struggle of children to overcome war in a region surrounded by Syrian government forces for more than 10 years. About 12,000 children have been killed or injured.
When I photographed these children, I felt like I was one of them, even though I did not experience my childhood (except through the camera).

Childhood colors in wartime | Mouneb Taim

Childhood colors in wartime.

Idlib, Syria, 2019

Mouneb Taim  | Syria

Late afternoon in Higienópolis.

Fim de tarde em Higienópolis
| JV Nande

Fim de tarde em Higienopolis. 

São Paulo, Brazil, 2021

JV Nande | Portugal

A man jumping by a solitary tree on a small mound known as One Tree Hill in Bhainsepati, Lalitpur district, Kathmandu Valley.

One Tree Hill | Sirish BC

One Tree Hill.

Bhainsepati, Nepal, 2018

Sirish B C | Nepal

The people of Inle Lake make a living fishing. They build their houses on the water and use small boats to get around.
Ancestry and balance are hallmarks of the movement of these fishermen, who use traditional conical nets.

Inle lifestyle | Aung Chan Thar

Inle lifestyle.

Myanmar, 2022

Aung Chan Thar | Myanmar

A shadow is typically used in reference to proximity and ominous oppressiveness. With the series of portraits to which this photograph belongs, I felt the need to reclaim the word.
The silhouette’s and shadow’s highlighted in this series symbolizing the beauty of form. A shadow becomes an opportunity for the viewers own interpretation. A silhouette becomes a new means of redefining the subject’s identity.
The goal with this series is encourage one’s own interpretation. New Slate — an effort to redefine the norm.

Divergent | Kourtney Iman

Divergent.

Atlanta, USA, 2022

Kourtney Iman | USA

A group of children, novices, play in the monastery.

Novice playing | Amay Thar

Novice playing.

Mandalay, Myanmar, 2021

Kyaw Soe Hlaing | Myanmar

The São Joaquim Fair is one of the most popular markets in Salvador, and also the most democratic.
In this space, which gathers thousands of people every day, the colors of Bahia stand out among the lights and shadows of a socially divided population.

Feira de São Joaquim
| Márcio Pimenta

Feira de São Joaquim.

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Marcio Pimenta | Brazil

A Syrian child tries to recover belongings in the rubble of a refugee camp in Tripoli where he lived, which has since been set on fire by locals.
It is estimated that there are more than a million Syrian refugees living in Lebanon, a phenomenon that has created tensions - often violent - between Lebanese and Syrians.

Em terra de ninguém | João Sousa

Em Terra de Ninguém.

Tripoli, Lebanon, 2020

João Sousa | Portugal

This picture shows a mother and a grandmother, a daughter and an aunt, a granddaughter and a niece. They are the only women with direct blood ties in the family.
In addition to blood, daughter-aunt inherited a gene from mother-grandmother. That gene, PALB2, causes breast cancer. Unfortunately, the mother-grandmother developed it; the daughter-aunt lives in fear that at any moment the little monster will awaken and shorten her life. The granddaughter-niece will live to adulthood in the hope that she has not inherited this gene.
All three are at different stages of life. Time is supposed to be different for each of them, but they can all have the same time.

PALB2 | Cristina Vieira

PALB2.

Maia, Portugal, 2021

Cristina Vieira | Portugal

Scientists from more than 100 universities in 17 countries record climate change in the Arctic Animal Movement Archive, a database on the movement of Arctic animals.
Since the 1970s, the average temperature in the Arctic has increased by about 2.3°C. Extensive melting, oil production, shipping, and other destructive actions of civilization cause large-scale behavioral changes in the golden eagles, bears, deer, wolves, and whales of the Far North. More and more animals are on the brink of extinction.
This photograph is part of the series NOTpermafrost.

NOTpermafrost #5 | Yuri Pritisk

NOTpermafrost #5.

Cheboksary, Russia, 2021

Yuri Pritisk | Russia

A helicopter flies over a fire in the port of Beirut, one month after the big explosion.
The event sparked panic among the capital's inhabitants, who feared another explosion would occur.

No meio do inferno | João Sousa

No meio do Inferno.

Beirut, Lebanon, 2020

João Sousa | Portugal

The blend of people and nature. A unique ecosystem. A symbiotic way of living.
The old fisherman is floating through the flooded lagoon in search of the fishing nets he released last night. A beautiful, poetic spring, an image that blends man and water ecosystems.
This photo is part of a series about life of nomad fishermen, living adrift on the lakes and rivers in Vietnam, with a free lifestyle and isolated from modern society. They make a living using ancient nets, handmade with bamboo poles joined together. They release fish traps on the lake's surface.

In the first Spring | Khanh Bui Phu

In the first spring.

Vietnam, 2022

Khanh Bui Phu | Vietnam

The main street of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, flooded during the rainy season.

The rain | Sven Delaye

The Rain.

Mexico, 2020

Sven Delaye | France

A group of women and children observe a Muharram celebration from a remote location. As it is a festival of sorrow, they wear black dresses.
Muharram is the first (and holiest) month of the Islamic calendar. This ceremony marks the anniversary of the Battle of Karbala, in which Imam Hussein ibn Ali, Muhammad's grandson, was killed by the forces of the second Umayyad caliph.

Hand of God | Subhajit

Hand Of God.

Kolkata, India, 2017

Subhajit | India

Cartagena opens its walls to its citizens and allows modern play and interaction with a location that has crossed many ages, through which millions of human beings have passed.
The contrast between modern and old generates a contradictory but also fun feeling.

Esquinas de murallas
| Tiago Ramírez

Esquinas de murallas.

Cartagena, Colombia, 2020

Tiago Ramírez  | Colombia

The Stari Most, Mostar's old bridge, was built in the 16th century and destroyed 427 years later during the Bosnian war (1992-1995).
Rebuilt in 2004, it became a symbol of reconciliation and unity of different ideologies.
It is a regular site of dives, attended by hundreds of spectators.

Intrépido | Abílio Jorge Mendes

Intrépido.

Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2017

Abílio Jorge Mendes | Portugal

Life is not easy for the people of this community. Eating three meals a day is like a dream for them. Still, they start each day as masters of their own life.
At the end of the work day, although she receives a small wage, this woman raises her head like a queen.

The Red Queen | Jahid Apu

The Red Queen.

Chandpur, Bangladesh, 2021

Jahid Apu | Bangladesh

Photograph taken just after the birth of my niece.

Birth | Magda Pinto

Birth.

Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal, 2018

Magda Pinto | Portugal

Father and son celebrate the death anniversary of Adrien Mombele, leader of the Kinshasa Sapeurs movement, self-proclaimed "Pope of La Sape".
The photo is part of a series on Congolese "sapeurs" (dandies) who, posing in cemeteries, recreate a utopian universe of being/appearing, where narcissism and respect for others (living or dead) coincide.
The series is part of the artistic project "Vanitas" (2010-2020), which addresses the spiritual and human dimension of "La Sape" (Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes) – movement that fuses collectivism and individualism, reinterpreting tradition and memory.

De Père au Fils | Yves Sambu

De Père au Fils.

Kinshasa, DR Congo, 2019

Yves Sambu | DR Congo

The return of the boat and the shaking of nets on land attract seagulls to shore. Within seconds, excitement and eloquent squawking of the birds reign.

Alvoroço | Helena Garcia

Alvoroço.

Espinho, Portugal, 2021

Helena Garcia | Portugal

Minimalist architecture photo captured at the Iran Mall during the crown pandemic.

Waiting for hope | Sara Goli

Waiting for hope.

Tehran, Iran, 2021

Sara Goli | Iran

A village boy standing with a rain protector made with leaves.
The boy’s physical development indicates the village’s health standards. His father and mother are daily wagers earning their livelihood in fields.

Malnutrition | Alok Avinash

Malnutrition.

Purulia, India, 2017

Alok Avinash | India

A work that borders on political provocation, but goes beyond it, touching on the psychosocial problems of society.

Disonancia | Daniel Martínez

Disonancia.

Camagüey, Cuba, 2021

Daniel Martínez | Cuba

We are the best-prepared generation in the history of Southern Europe. Yet we were sold a future that does not exist. We inherited the deindustrialization and touristification.
European policies have planned economic activity of southern countries around the tertiary sector, turning them into tourist resorts for the northern countries which have industry and a solid flourishing economy.
The streets of southern Europe are increasingly filled with lost individuals, who don't have a roof over their heads, a means of subsistence or, what is even more dangerous, a glimmer of hope.
This photograph is part of the series The Lost Generation, about the social conditions of part of the population.

The lost generation #1 | Adra Pallón

The Lost Generation #1

Spain, 2022

Adra Pallón | Spain

Many homeless people in Dhaka have lost their homes and properties due to frequent flooding, river erosion and other natural calamities. They have been forced to migrate to the city in search of a better future.
These people have nowhere to shelter in big cities. Their day begins in street dumps and ends on roads to nowhere. 
In concrete covered streets, boats are flower-beds for these refugees who practically have no identity. They survive as street vendors, laborers, and doing other odd jobs.

Fatigue Sleep
| Muhammad Amdad Hossain

Fatigue Sleep.

Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2021

Muhammad Amdad Hossain | Bangladesh

Performance at Southbank's Centre Fountain.

Untitled | José Farinha

Untitled.

London, UK, 2015

José Farinha | Portugal

View of the city and stairs to the sky. It seems to be a way to heaven.

The path of the sky | Ali Zolghadri

The path of the sky.

Tehran, Iran, 2021

Ali Zolghadri | Iran

Lethe is part of the series "Redefining Nudes", which reclaims the image of the body not as an object, beautiful or sexual, but as part of the integral human being, which has its desires and is as extraordinary as it is magnetic when shown as it really is.
The people portrayed expressed the need to rediscover their bodies, to make peace with them, to learn to love them, to express their freedom. Through the lens of the camera, we experienced transformation and trust; we moved together, exchanged stories and secrets. The images were taken during confinement, in rituals of rare intimacy.

Lethe | Katarzyna Kwiatkowska

Lethe.

Berlin, Germany, 2021

Katarzyna Kwiatkowska | Poland

Kazem Dashi (or Qala Dashi) area, in the village of Gurchin Qala, on the western shore of Lake Urmia.
[Lumicroma note: over time, the Urmia has become smaller and smaller, creating a landscape made of salt.]

Taxi | Mehrdad Vahed

Taxi.

Iran, 2018

Mehrdad Vahed | Iran

This is a story of a flood-affected village in the Kushtia district. During the monsoon season, as the river rises, the village is flooded.
Due to the rising waters, there is a shortage of food for the animals, who have to look elsewhere for it.

Climate change effect
| Ananto Biswas Utshow

Climate change effect.

Kushtia, Bangladesh, 2021

Ananto Biswas Utshow | Bangladesh

The fog that falls in the late afternoon gives a unique aesthetic to this photograph, in which the human presence acquires an enormous relevance.

Surfing in the mist
| Nuno Pestana Vasconcelos

Surfing in the mist.

Cordoama beach, Portugal, 2020

Nuno Pestana Vasconcelos | Portugal

"Where will I go, where will I go?" Adam Ali gently repeated himself the same question to himself. At eighty-five years old, he was living with his family in the Kurmitola slum beside Mirpur DOHS road, Dhaka. When he heard about the plans to demolish his house for the reconstruction of the road, he panicked and started talking to himself.
It was difficult for him to survive during the lockdown in the pandemic: with no job and not enough food, he feared losing his shelter.
Adam Ali died in 2021.
I photographed him in an old broken mirror in his home. I wanted to capture both visual and conceptual thoughts in one frame. The mirror symbolizes his broken heart, his life at that moment. The marks on the mirror give insight into his conversation with his soul.

A soul apart | MD. Saiful Islam

A Soul Apart.

Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2022

MD. Saiful Islam | Bangladesh

Children play basketball in the Safende neighborhood, affectionately known as the "amado [beloved] neighborhood".
Safende was born in the 1970s due to the rural exodus and the growth of City of Praia.
esides rural migrants, its first residents were Cape Verdean refugees coming from Angola, a result of Portuguese decolonization. 
Social inequalities and poverty triggered conflicts, robberies, drug use, gang wars, to the point that the neighborhood was called Chechnya in the 1990s.
In 2012, a group of residents, mostly young people, united to fight the violence. Today, the "amado neighborhood" is considered a safe suburb of Cidade da Praia.

Untitled | José Farinha

Untitled.

Cape Verde, 2021

Jose Farinha | Portugal

Sports building Moscow in the evening light.

Architectural wave | Sergey Vasilenko

Architectural Wave.

Moscow, Russia, 2021

Sergey Vasilenko | Russia

Muslim devotees lend themselves to a very risky journey, overcrowding the train. They return home after participating in the second largest Muslim congregation in the world, held on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi, near Dhaka.
Biswa Ijtema, the big three-day religious gathering, closes with the Akheri Munajat ceremony, or the Final Prayer. Every year, it attracts devotees from all over the world.

Massive gathering on a local train
| Rayhan Ahmed

Massive gathering.

Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2020

Rayhan Ahmed | Bangladesh

At sunrise, an old man inspects his handmade fishing nets.
The nets reflected on the lake create an indescribable, powerful, contrasting light that highlights his daily work.
This photograph is part of a series about the nomadic fishermen in the lakes and rivers of Vietnam. With a free lifestyle, isolated from modern society, they use these ancient nets, built with bamboo poles, to trap fish on the lake’s surface.

Checking fishing nets | Khanh Bui Phu

Checking fishing nets.

Vietnam, 2018

Khanh Bui Phu | Vietnam

Ceremonial dresses are prepared for the upcoming wedding.
Executed with delicate Far Eastern fabrics, these colorful costumes, the Kıras-Fistan, have been part of Kurdish culture for thousands of years.
They are indispensable on special occasions such as weddings, engagement parties, the Newroz (the Kurdish celebration of Nowruz in early spring), and International Women's Day.

Colors | Musa Talasli

Colors.

Turkey, 2018

Musa Talasli | Turkey

February 24, 2021. A woman gives her child water collected from a pond in a nearby village, since there is no other source available for drinking water.
The village where this photo was taken, in the Khulna district of coastal Bangladesh, suffers from a severe lack of clean drinking water. The groundwater has extremely high salinity values. Thus, people have to rely on several ponds. The water they consume does not even go through a filtering process before drinking.
The irony is that people in this region have 4G Internet access, but no safe drinking water.

Drinking unsafe water | Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Drinking unsafe water.

Bangladesh, 2022

Mohammad Ponir Hossain | Bangladesh

The series "Manhãs Submersas" [submerged mornings] is composed of everyday scenarios where the fog emphasizes the interaction of the "characters" (man and architecture), hiding the superfluous, focusing our gaze on the essential.

Manhãs Submersas #1
| Fernando Correia da Silva

Manhãs Submersas #1.

Porto, Portugal, 2019

Fernando Correia da Silva | Portugal

Three farm workers and an old green van waiting to hear about the day's goal. The open doors suggest a curtain, and for a moment each of the women seems to disconnect from everyday life, turning their gaze to infinite.
In its apparent calm, this image reveals a riot of primary colors and anticipates the exciting coming moments, when these workers will be immersed in the green of the fields.

The poetry of primary colors
| Paolo Ricca

The poetry of primary colors.

Italy, 2021

Paolo Ricca | Italy

Due to the scarcity of drinking water, these people cross the river on foot, carrying water.

Carriers of water in the river
| Amay Thar

Carriers of water in the river.

Pakokku, Myanmar, 2018

Amay Thar | Myanmar

This project explores the dark and mystical side of art in general.
As an artist, I am very familiar with the relationship of the creator and his inspiration, which can be drawn from various sources. For some, these are books or music, but sometimes it comes from such dark depths of the soul that by looking at them, the creator hurts himself.

Music of the void
| Vladislav Shapovalov

Music of the Void.

Russia, 2022

Vladislav Shapovalov | Russia

This image of little boys disguised as animals playing alerts us to biodiversity in great danger.
It also evokes the relationship between humans and animals who still share the same environment in this green plain.

Think green, love green | Nimai

Think green, love green.

West Bengal, India, 2021

Nimai | India

At the foothills of the Mehrangarh Fort at Jodhpur, Rajasthan, there is a breathtaking spread of houses, all blue.
The 500-year-old settlement, called Brahmpuri, is characterized by its organic street patern, where the primary lane branches out into a complex skein of sub-lanes. Inhabited by Brahmins, the village is distinguished by its electric and azure blue walls, due to which Jodhpur is called the Blue City of India.
Some houses have arched windows, in consonance with doors and gateways. Others have extremely well-carved jaali and intricate bracket work on the facades, but the most noticeable thing is that blue cladding dominates in all of them.

Brahmpuri Blues | Sudipto

Brahmpuri Blues.

Kolkata, India, 2022

Sudipto | India

Group of demonstrators during an action by a Danish far-right party.

Antifascistas | Igor Aboim

Antifascistas.

Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016

Igor Aboim | Portugal

In Contuboel, while visiting the local IMAM [national protocol unit for malnutrition management], I found myself surrounded by children, who approached, curious, to see what the foreigners were doing.
I like this image because of the diversity of expressions it contains. I love the transparency of the children..

Child-like | David Cardoso

Child-like.

Guinea-Bissau, 2019

David Cardoso | Portugal

Lotus farmers working together in the morning.

Colourful life | Dikye Darling

Colourful life.

Indonesia, 2022

Dikye Darling | Indonesia

They act in their intimate theater, but the whole city is also a theater, and the actors are legion, and the drama crowned by silence already spans many days and nights.
In that complete motionless abstraction, from which even pain and terror are absent, living creatures seem to listen and even watch some of their organs, the heart, let us say, the secret and irreparable course of the blood.
Windows that give no one knows where empty the time with their raw and wild light. 
The body begins to breathe not faster but deeper. 
And their hearts endure. Because it is seen that the heart can support anything, anything, anything...
This photograph is part of the series "Las catedrales de la nostalgia".

Untitled, series Las catedrales de la nostalgia | Rodrigo Illescas

Untitled.

Paraguay, 2019

Rodrigo Illescas | Argentina

2021 was a challenging year for Burma. The military coup and resulting protests killed and maimed many in the country. The third wave of Covid-19 also led to many deaths. Across the country, there was suffering due to a shortage of doctors and oxygen supply.
The price of medicine has become exorbitant. In response, many young people started to volunteer in fighting the pandemic. They are the real heroes, with a great sense of humanity and compassion.

Young volunteer | Aung Chan Thar

Young volunteer.

Myanmar, 2021

Aung Chan Thar | Myanmar

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