Ana Catarina Pinho studied Visual Arts at Oporto Superior Art School and finished her Masters degree in Documentary Photography in 2010. Since then, she has been participating in art residencies and international projects such as Picture Berlin’10, European Borderlines, etc. She has received collaborative grants from The European Cultural Foundation and The Roberto Cimetta Fund. She is the founder and editor of Archivo Photography and is currently working as a freelance photographer, as well as an Assistant Professor of Documentary Photography at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. The work of this emergent photographer combines a documentary approach, relating diverse people with the landscape and places where they live or work. Ana is represented in several exhibitions and her projects are in print on a number of different publications. She is currently based in Portugal. Today we share her series Broken Ground.
Broken Ground
Broken Ground is a particular landscape that can be found in the city periphery, where a different organization and interaction between man and space is visible.
The idea of borderline and the observation of the social and visual differences connected to the urban space were the starting point of this series, aiming to highlight the landscape and interaction between people and the place they inhabit, thinking of ‘borderline’ as something directly connected to people and how their conceptions and behavior about territory and possession leads to separation, misunderstanding and conflict.
The idea of borderline and the observation of the social and visual differences connected to the urban space were the starting point of this series, aiming to highlight the landscape and interaction between people and the place they inhabit, thinking of ‘borderline’ as something directly connected to people and how their conceptions and behavior about territory and possession leads to separation, misunderstanding and conflict.
To view more of Ana’s work, please visit her website.