Local photographer Carmo Correia is releasing her latest book this month, ‘Bridge of Light’. The hard cover book features 188 beautiful black and white images over 240 pages, depicting scenes of Portuguese influence throughout Asia. The project took two years to complete, as Carmo travelled to India, Sri Lanka, Malacca, Thailand, Indonesia, East Timor, Japan and of course returning to Macau, searching for traces of Portuguese history in churches, fortresses, administrative buildings, palaces, urban planning and festivals around the region.
Through the images depicted in ‘Bridge of Light’, Carmo intends to reveal how Macau served as a starting point for the spread of Lusophone culture throughout Asia, and was a catalyst for building relations between China and Portuguese-speaking countries.
As well as stunning images, the book also includes a main text written by Portuguese historian, Jorge Santos Alves and a closing text by Carlos Morais José.
An exhibition of the photos and a video documentary will be on display in Casa Garden from December 10 until January 19, 2014.
‘Bridge of Light’ hand-numbered, limited editions are on sale at the Portuguese Bookshop and Macau Museum of Art gift shop, and as well as in select bookshops throughout Hong Kong. The photographer can also be contacted directly through her website www.carmocorreia.com for limited edition print sales.
Main sponsors: BNU, CESLASIA, Sociedade de Jogs de Macau (SJM), LUSA-Portuguese News Agency, Vino Veritas, Macao Foundation and Macau Tourism Board and has the support of Orient Foundation.
