Ontem (yesterday in Portuguese) is the result of a number of years during which André Cepeda became interested in the lives of the people of Porto, photographing landscapes, interiors and portraits. The photographer, concerned with poverty and social injustice, has gained access to theses small closed districts and where people live in families and couples in tiny apartments. There, he managed build relationships with these people who often feel there is no hope or prospects for the future. In these spaces, Cepeda’s photographs allow the viewer to hear the silence, which gives the images a charged intensity. The couples, with whom he has had long conversations and who survive on very strong bonds of love forged between them, are perhaps the essence of the photographer’s work.
