Alfredo Cunha’s ‘Rostos da Imigração’ at UCCLA Lisbon

Alfredo Cunha’s photographic exhibition ‘Rostos da Imigração’ is on view at the UCCLA gallery in Lisbon until 20 May 2026. The series presents portraits of individuals from lusophone communities, resisting anonymity and emphasizing lived experience. Cunha, known for documenting post-revolutionary Portugal, uses direct portraiture to collapse distance between viewer and subject, avoiding aestheticization of displacement. The exhibition frames portraiture as a political gesture, creating a counter-archive of marginalized narratives of belonging. Photography here functions as an ethics of attention, where looking becomes recognition.