MORE JAZZ PICTURES ADDED

Bass player Ken Filiano is greeted by his friend Pedro Costa when arriving at Lisbon Airport. Ken released some records in the independent portuguese label "Clean Feed" in which Pedro is one of the founders.

During last year three editions of "Jazz ao Centro" Festival", held in portuguese Coimbra town, Luis Filipe Catarino has been portraying some of the finest contemporary improvisation musicians. In last November and June editions of the Festival, he exhibited some of the work he's been doing. Now we make these pictures available in our archive.

CLEAN FEED RECORDS WITH 4SEE PICTURES

Portuguese independent jazz label Clean Feed released this month three new records with pictures by photographer Luis Filipe Catarino.

Bass player and composer Adam Lane and his Full Throttle Orchestra new CD New Magical Kingdom counts with photos that Luis shot during Coimbra´s Jazz Festival while Lane did a workshop and directed JACC Festival's Orchestra.

The Will Holshouser Trio latest Singing to a Bee also features a picture from Catarino. Their new CD was live recorded at Algarve's capital city Faro, in a performance that this accordeon, trumpet and violin trio did in beautiful Lethes Theatre. The album cover reproduces the venue ceiling with bee artwork from graphic designer Rui Garrido.

Finnaly, promising multi-cultural-multi-national Imi Kollektief has a group portrait inside their debut album Snug as a Gun. The quintet members come from countries like Brazil, France, Belgium and Portugal, and their natural adaptability and passion are the driving force on a quest to seek sounds beyond norms and tradtions.

NICARAGUA FROM THE ARCHIVE

Jose Ventura shot this story in July 2004 about historical characters from the Sandinista Revolution and the country's political mood on the 25th Anniversary of the Revolution.

Next November Presidential elections will be held and former sandinista President Daniel Ortega, and ex-sandinista and former contra Eden Pastora (also known as Comandante 0) are running for the job.

The elections are a good reason to dig in our archive and highlight this pictures again.
Clich here to see the photos.

JOANA AND LUIS START THEIR INTERNSHIP

Luis Faustino and Joana Malheiro are the first interns our agency receives. Both ended their photography courses at Etic and their work is now starting to be followed by our photographers, who will help them on how to choose their stories, approaching subjects and story angles and editing the body of each work.

Luis is shooting a story about a Lisbon tram line where every weekend, during Summer season, Fado music is played live for tourists and portuguese audience. Trams are overcrowded with public.

He is also following foreign immigrants while they watch World Cup Football matches, or while they work during those matches.

Joana is collecting information on a story about Philippine house-keepers living in Portugal and is also starting to shoot "AmarAmalia" rehearsals, a ballet performance by Portugal's "Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporaneo", who has captured audiences around the world with their passionate, energetic performances. While celebrating the great fado singer Amalia Rodrigues in "Amaramalia Abandono", the Company had tremendous success on their Broadway shows, as related by "The New York Times":
"The choreographer Vasco Wellenkamp has perfectly captured the untethered yearning of the fado, Portugal's national song, and channeled it into the explosive vigor of the dancers, who roused the audience."

Check our news blog regularly to see posts with Luis and Joana work.

MARCO AND SARA RETURN FROM A FIVE MONTH TRIP IN SOUTH AMERICA

Photographers Marco Pereira and Sara Wong just got back to Portugal from South America. They're now editing thousands of images they made on a route that revealed breathtaking landscapes and intriguing life expressions such as the Cafés con Piernas of Santiago de Chile, where coffee and cappuccinos (but no alcohol) are served by very lightly dressed ladies that welcome every customer with tender kisses and warm conversation. This and many other new features will soon be online.