since 2017
European
photography
platform
Welcome to the European photography platform here you can explore a network of photographers, members of the platform and read more about us.
Artist Projects
Invisible Line is a documentary project developed beneath the Santa Apolónia bridge in Lisbon, where around fifty people live in a space conceived solely as transit infrastructure. Initiated in 2020, the project remains ongoing.
The bridge, as an urban structure, establishes an invisible separation between two overlapping worlds: the city that circulates above and the community that organizes itself below. This line — not physical, but structural — defines an intermediate territory, where new ways of inhabiting emerge and where tents, objects, and everyday gestures reconfigure notions of permanence.
The project does not seek to represent homelessness as a statistical or exceptional phenomenon, but rather to observe how life reorganizes itself within a residual space of the city. The images are constructed from fragments — present bodies, suggested bodies, and absent bodies — revealing a silent intimacy shaped by traces, adaptations, and rituals.
Between public space and improvised shelter, a micro-society forms, with its own identity, in constant transformation. Beneath the bridge, what usually remains outside the field of vision becomes a direct reflection of the city and the collective choices that sustain it.
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Events
futures activities
FUTURES is a European Photography Platform that brings together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artists worldwide.
FUTURES curates exhibitions and programs, including talks, through our extensive network of top European curators and artists.
The FUTURES Residency Program provides selected emerging photographers with the time, space, and resources to develop new work, with a strong focus on the artistic process and research.
FUTURES annual publications feature in-depth articles, interviews and conversations with key players from the global community. Released alongside the annual exhibition, the publication showcases work by FUTURES artists alongside commissioned essays on some of the most compelling issues in contemporary photography.