Social distancing voting… Portugal’s 2021 presidential elections under a general lockdown.  Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹, January 2021   #street #lisbon #portugal

Often I hear people I meet in Trás-Os-Montes complaining about fog, that it didn’t use to be like that, that it has to do with this and that, and I nod agreeing with them. But the truth is I pack my bags thinking if that that year I’ll get some of it, hoping that I can find dawns that surround everything like this small shrine was as I was going to have my breakfast.Bragança, Trás-Os-Montes, Portugal 🇵🇹, December 2019 #portugal #trasosmontes

Snowy mornings like this could make someone feel like they’re not in the southwest corner of Europe. As a friend of mined named it once: “our little big north”… Bragança, Trás-Os-Montes, Portugal 🇵🇹, February 2018 #portugal #trasosmontes

Although placed in a pleasant corner of Europe, not all places in Portugal have a mild winter where British can escape to. Despite a permanent white blanket of snow throughout all season isn’t a thing, in some places temperatures often go below zero. Like at Trás-Os-Montes, in the northeast corner of the country, where these leaves of Pyrenean oak remain frozen by a shadowy corner of the road that hadn’t received the light of the morning sun. Bragança, Trás-Os-Montes, Portugal 🇵🇹, December 2016 #portugal #trasosmontes

Festa dos Rapazes, or Young Men’s Festival, a winter solstice masked tradition that was “adopted” as Catholic, but with the boundaries of what’s holy and pagan still very clear.

This year, and since all winter festivities have been cancelled due to the pandemic, I spent the days I was meant to be in the North of Portugal looking at previous trips, and trying to put some structure into those photos.

Ousilhão, Trás-Os-Montes, Portugal 🇵🇹, December 2018 #portugal #trasosmontes #wintersolstice #festasdesantoestevao #festadosrapazes #mask #t3mujin_featured

Festa dos Rapazes, or Young Men’s Festival, a winter solstice masked tradition that was “adopted” as Catholic, but with the boundaries of what’s holy and pagan still very clear.

This year, and since all winter festivities have been cancelled due to the pandemic, I spent the days I was meant to be in the North of Portugal looking at previous trips, and trying to put some structure into those photos.

Ousilhão, Trás-Os-Montes, Portugal 🇵🇹, December 2019 #portugal #trasosmontes #wintersolstice #festasdesantoestevao #festadosrapazes #mask #t3mujin_featured

Festa dos Rapazes, or Young Men’s Festival, a winter solstice masked tradition that was “adopted” as Catholic, but with the boundaries of what’s holy and pagan  still very clear. This year, and since all  winter festivities have been cancelled due to the pandemic, I spent the  days I was meant to be in the North of Portugal looking at previous  trips, and trying to put some structure into those photos.Ousilhão, Trás-Os-Montes, Portugal 🇵🇹, December 2019 #portugal #trasosmontes #wintersolstice #festasdesantoestevao #festadosrapazes #mask

New habits… This is one of my photos in the book “everydaycovid - diários fotográficos em estado de emergência”. For more details check www.everydaycovid.pt (portuguese only).   Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹, March 2020 #portugal #lisbon #everydaycovid

With the pandemic all travel halted, what once was a busy sightseeing spot over Alfama turned, and the cruise ships that would quickly leave to the next harbor now were stranded for months…    This is one of my photos in the book “everydaycovid - diários fotográficos em estado de emergência”. For more details check www.everydaycovid.pt (portuguese only).  Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹, May 2020 #portugal #lisbon #everydaycovid

As offices moved to our homes, the starter of day chats by the water-cooler shifted to computer screens. This is one of my photos in the book “everydaycovid - diários fotográficos em estado de emergência”. For more details check www.everydaycovid.pt (portuguese only).  Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹, March 2020 #portugal #lisbon #everydaycovid