The city and the mountains

Born in 1934 in the small town of Brou, near Chartres, in French Brittany, Georges Dussaud visited Portugal for the first time in 1980 and, since then, has produced a magnificent photographic collection covering the entire country. 

The local market,  the rituals and crafts, the agricultural work and herding, the landscape and architecture, the arts and culture, but above all, the people. 

These are some of the subjects photographed.

At the same time, it underlines the agreement that still exists between the preservation of mountain traditions and the transformations imposed by city modernity, an ideal so acclaimed in Queiros's novel.

Of the approximately 200 photographs that make up this extraordinary collection, where the documentary and the artistic intersect, the authorial mark of a photographer who has always claimed a positive and poetic vision of reality for his images stands out.