The exhibition ‘Venham Mais Cinco – O Olhar Estrangeiro sobre a Revolução Portuguesa’ has attracted approximately 14,000 visitors since its opening and will now be extended for an additional three months, announced the organizers today.
The exhibition will be prolonged due to the ‘high interest, demand, and the significant number of visitors,’ they noted in a statement, highlighting that entry is free and it is open from Thursday to Sunday, between 11:00 and 19:00, at the Mutela Business Park, opposite the former Lisnave.
This exhibition is part of the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of April 25 and presents around 200 large-format photographs by 30 renowned photojournalists and international photographers, who were in Portugal between 1974 and 1975 to cover the revolutionary days.
This extension will also accommodate school group visits, the organizers pointed out.
“It was the only time Portugal was at the center of the world” and it’s “a unique moment in the History of Portugal,” stated film director Sérgio Tréfaut, curator of the exhibition, during the inauguration, noting that “it is a journey through time,” allowing one to “experience everything that was relevant at the moment.”
The Italian journalist Augusta Conchiglia, who covered African independences, French photographer Guy Le Querrec, co-author of the book ‘Portugal 1974-1975: Regards sur une tentative de pouvoir populaire’, Brazilians Sebastião Salgado and Alécio de Andrade, and the French Jacques Haillot, who passed away in Portugal, are some of the featured names in the exhibition.
The research and curation work was conducted by Tréfaut and researcher Margarida Medeiros (who died in 2024) and involved contact with the photographers and collection of material from international agency archives.
The photographs are showcased in four sections – ‘The Freedom Festival’, ‘New Forms of Power’, ‘Independences’, ‘A Divided Country’ – in the former administration offices of the Lisnave shipyards, transforming “a vacant space into a true temporary cultural facility.”
Since its opening, numerous guided tours have frequently sold out, led by the image authors, revolution-related figures, historians, and sociologists.
This initiative is a partnership between Faux, the 50th Anniversary Commission of April 25, and Almada City Council, with support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the publisher Tinta da China, which published a book-catalog.
