A Look at Fernando Távora’s Quinta da Conceição

Authors

• Sebastiano Raimondo

  Sebastiano Raimondo, graduated in Architecture in Palermo with photographer and professor Giovanni Chiaramonte. In 2014 he founded the group Presente Infinito with five photographer friends in the city of Naples. With them he edited the book of the same name, made several exhibitions in Italy and abroad, the projects Napoli – nuova luce in 2015 and Madonie Paesaggi in 2021 for the “Photography Strategy 2020” call for proposals of MIC. He was selected in 2020 by the German-Italian foundation VAF among the finalists of the 9th edition of the prize for young Italian artists with the project Custodire soglie, in 2022 he won the first prize at the photography biennial of Vila Franca de Xira in Portugal with the project Reduce-re. He lives between Portugal and Italy, is a doctoral student in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories at ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon and professor of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo since 2018-2019. He has published photographs and texts for: Passagens and Caleidoscópio (Lisboa, 2013); Lições de Arquitectura and Circo de ideias (Porto, 2017); Sophia and Edições Scopio (Porto 2018 and 2019); Edizioni Caracol (Palermo 2019); Sacred and Urbanautica Institute (Verona 2020); Palermo/Periferie, Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo (Palermo 2020); IX Premio Fondazione VAF and Manfredi edizioni (Imola 2022).