Gráfica Monumental

Lisboa, 2008

In 2008 I got the chance along with Inês Abreu e Silva and other five photographers to shoot a derelict printing shop in Lisbon.
Gráfica Monumental was then being dismantled. Gráfica Monumental had been in business for about fifty years, printing countless important Portuguese books, magazines and record/album covers from the 1960s on. With the massive spread of digital technologies in the beginning of the 21st century, its model of business became obsolete, and Gráfica Monumental had to shut its doors in 2008. Traces of the printing business, materials and objects belonging to its workers were then still all over the place like specters of a recent activity.
Part of this series took part in an exhibition with photos authored by Inês Abreu e Silva also entitled Gráfica Monumental, at Alfama, 14-18 Rua da Adiça, 2008.