Fotonovelo: Notas a Propósito da Construção de uma Obra Audiovisual Interativa Online

Authors

  • Soraya Vasconcelos CICANT / FO:RCE Lusófona
  • Sara Morgado Santos ICNOVA / NOVA FCSH
  • Catarina Laranjeiro IHC / NOVA FCSH , IHC / NOVA FCSH

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24140/ijfma.v10i3.11716

Abstract

Desde que surgiu nos anos 1940, que a fotonovela foi considerada um género marginal na cultura visual. Consumida sobretudo por um público feminino, tem sido desvalorizada nos campos académicos e artísticos, em particular na área da fotografia e do fotolivro. O formato expandiu-se, ao longo do tempo, para abarcar géneros tão diversos como a ficção científica, a pornografia ou a sátira política, permanecendo contudo, como uma forma de expressão cultural de “segunda ordem” (Baetens, 2010; Colangelo, 2023).

Author Biographies

  • Soraya Vasconcelos, CICANT / FO:RCE Lusófona

    Soraya Vasconcelos (1977) is a visual artist, lecturer, and researcher at U.Lusófona/CICANT. She holds a degree in painting (FBAUL, 2002) and has also studied photography (ETIC, UABarcelona) and philosophy (FCSH.NOVA). She has a PhD in Communication, Culture, and Arts (UALG, 2014). In 2005, she participated in the Photography Course of the Gulbenkian Artistic Creation and Creativity Program. As an academic, she focuses on the creative process, finding in artist's books, photobooks, and visual essays a bridge to her artistic practice, which includes photography, print and book making, drawing, and installation. Between 2019 and 2022, she was a researcher for the project O Impulso Fotográfico (ICNOVA/ref:PTDC/COM-OUT/29608/2017), focused on a decolonial analysis of photographic material produced in the Portuguese colonial scientific context; she was co-curator of the exhibition (Des)arrumar o Arquivo Colonial, at the Museum of Natural History and Science.

  • Sara Morgado Santos, ICNOVA / NOVA FCSH

    Sara Santos (1979) is a visual artist. She holds a degree in Fine Arts (ESAD-CR, 2005) and a postgraduate degree in Communication Sciences – Cinema and Television (FCSH.NOVA, 2009) and in Advanced Studies in Performance and Set Design (APASS, Brussels 2015). Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Media Arts at U.Lusofona. She has been involved in collaborations with other artists since early on and, in 2005, she co-founded the artistic collective Pizz Buin, which is notable for its CASA project, a shortlisted for the EDP Novos Artistas 2007 awards. She maintains her artistic activity, both solo and in collective projects – with special focus on moving images and scenography—regularly participating in exhibitions, festivals, and other related events, the most recent of which include: O Chão é Lava, Culturgest (Lisbon and Porto), 2024; 74 × Caldas = Uma Ideia Clara? From the CGD Collection, Caldas da Rainha Arts Center, 2024, and Bahahaal, Zé dos Bois Gallery, 2025.

  • Catarina Laranjeiro, IHC / NOVA FCSH, IHC / NOVA FCSH

    Catarina Laranjeiro (1983) is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC, NOVA-FCSH) working on the project “African Modes of Self-Filming: Popular Films in Transnational Flow.” She works on vernacular cinema, particularly in Guinea- Bissau, Cape Verde, and their diaspora communities in Portugal. At the IHC, she co-directs the research line “Modern Mediations: Arts, Technology & Communication” and was part of the research project “Amílcar Cabral, from Political History to the Politics of Memory.” She holds a PhD in Postcolonialism and Global Citizenship from the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. Following a transdisciplinary academic path, she holds a degree in Social Psychology from the University of Lisbon and a master's degree in Media and Visual Anthropology from Freie Universitaet Berlin. As a filmmaker, she directed the film ‘Pabia di Aos’ (2013) and co-directed ‘Fogo na Lama’ (2022). Her main research interests focus on colonial and postcolonial cinema, vernacular cinema, home movies, memory politics, and gender studies. She has participated in several projects that combine anthropology, cinema, and visual arts. She is co-curator of the exhibition O Chão é Lava, Culturgest, 2024.

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Published

31-12-2025

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Vol. 10 No. 3 (2025): Dossier I: Visions of the Future: Iberian Visual Culture After Democracy, 1974–1998

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