Casa de Mateus Photographic Archive

In the company of ghosts

In photographs people remain together

Procession of Our Lady of Pity, 80 years before I documented it

Collaboration with MUSTIQUE

The idea of a golden age

Francisco de Albuquerque looking at his mother with devotion, 1950’s

Some of the romantic entanglements which resulted in me

Some of the romantic entanglements which resulted in me. My grandparents met as an result of a vespa crash in the 1950's.

Father and son, Francisco de Albuquerque both died on January 8th, 41 years apart

À mesa não se envelhece

How an empty chair is an indirect portrait of someone

These tree will outlive us

We are not new

In memory of you

You must leave everything behind

My long lost uncle Alexandre de Sousa Botelho appears in Veva de Lima's O unico vencido da vida que foi vencido pela morte

Faces lost to time

I feel their absence and their presence in Mateus

A son holds the portrait of his father on his desk

A daughter holds the portrait of her father on her living room

The dead of the Casa de Mateus archive

This is my grandfather’s grandfather, bearing the same name and title. My grandfather used to say he felt sorry about death as this meant he could not read all which had been written

Francisco de Albuquerque, my great grandfather bringing the bones of his ancestor, the Morgado de Mateus from pere la chaise to Mateus. He invited all his descendants for this occasion.