Inês Gonçalves
Inês Gonçalves (Málaga, 1964) is a photographer, director and producer. She studied Photography at the Photographic Training Centre in London (1985-88) and, from 1988 to 2004, worked as a photographer and photo editor for newspapers and magazines such as O Independente, Kapa and Público. In 2004, she attended the Documentary Filmmaking course at Ateliers Varan, Gulbenkian Programme for Creativity and Artistic Creation, and in 2005, with Kiluanje Liberdade, she founded the production company NO LAND Films.
In 2019, she began documenting religious festivities and processions that her own father had photographed in Trás-os-Montes between 1970 and 2000. Her documentary projects explore themes of memory, particularly personal and collective memory, identity and cultural traditions. Ana Paganini divides her time between film still photography, authorial and documentary projects and event photography. She also manages her father's photographic archive.
Her photographic work has been shown in several exhibitions, is represented in public and private collections and has been published in book form. Among her published works, the following stand out: Cabo Verde, with text by João Miguel Fernandes Jorge (1999); Goa: História de Um Encontro, with Catarina Portas (2001); Agora Luanda, co-authored with Kiluanje Liberdade and with texts by Delfim Sardo and José Eduardo Agualusa (2007); Moderno tropical – Arquitectura em Angola e Moçambique 1948-1975, co-authored with Ana Magalhães and with a preface by Ana Tostões (2009), a work that received the DAM Architectural Book Award 2010; and 88/98, based on the fashion photography she published in books and catalogues during this period (2022).
In cinema, highlights include Pátria Incerta, co-directed with Vasco Pimentel (2005); Luanda: Fábrica da Música, co-directed with Kiluanje Liberdade (2008); Tchiloli: Máscaras e Mitos, co-directed with Kiluanje Liberdade (2009). She was the director of photography for Oxalá Cresçam Pitangas (2005/2006), () by Kiluanje Liberdade and Ondjaki, and the director of Na Terra Como no Céu (2010), A Minha Banda e Eu (2011) and 25 Anos dos Direitos das Crianças São Tomé e Príncipe (2014).
The Test of Time