Since 2024, I have been documenting Portugal’s wildfire crisis through Living With Fire. My roots are in the Açor Mountains in central Portugal, where I spent my summers growing up with the smell of smoke in the air. In 2017, when deadly wildfires swept through the region, killing dozens of people, we almost lost our home. The project is based on repeat visits to places that have been recently affected, to show how the landscape and communities attempt to recover in between fire events.

It was awarded the Project Groundswell Prize in 2025 and was a finalist in the Earth Photo Award 2026. It has been exhibited in Austria, at the Fotohof, in Ireland, at the Photo Museum Ireland, in Italy, at the Cortona on the Move Festival and in Lisbon, at the Imago Festival.

The images are made in limited editions and are hand signed, printed in Lisbon on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315.

20x30  cm - Edition of 20 - 225€ 
40x60  cm - Edition of 10 - 800€
60x90 cm - Edition of 3 - 1600€

They are sold without a frame, but frame options can be discussed for an additional fee.
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About the project:

Over the past two decades, Portugal has recorded the largest cumulative burned area in the E.U. Hotter and drier summers collide with structural problems including rural depopulation, fragmented ownership, large areas of monoculture forestry, and decades of policies that have often prioritized firefighting over prevention.

Working on assignment for Der Spiegel a few years ago, I documented a promising post-fire reforestation effort on communal land in my grandfather’s native village of Monte Frio in the Açor Mountains. In 2025, the project was consumed by the flames of Portugal’s largest wildfire ever, the second largest in European history. The aim of my work is to show how communities cope with repeated wildfires, using contemporary documentary photography and archival imagery, often from my family albums.

Fire remains part of everyday life, lighting sacred candles in village processions and warming hearths in the winter. In the summer, the same fire destroys entire landscapes. The future of these places is being decided now. Innovation, tradition, and community action are working together to rebuild lives and the landscapes many call home.