Her name is Revolution.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April, Menina Colina Guesthouse is pleased to show the public the photographic reportage made by German photographer Gernot Huber in Portugal in 1975.
It consists of 15 images (reproductions of black and white photographs, with captions by Alex Jordan), from the "Images of Portugal" dossier, which give us an outside but attentive and complicit look at the revolutionary period that was taking place in Portuguese society, particularly in the Alentejo, during the agrarian reform, in the year "of the great harvest of 1975".
The pictures capture various moments in the life of the workers and their families at the newly created Estrela Vermelha agricultural co-operative in Santiago do Cacém and were taken during the months that the authors were living and working in that town.
In these pictures, we see the happy, free faces of the men and women who at that time dared to fight for a better life. The slogan was: "Give the land to those who work on it".
These are the faces of the revolution, the faces of freedom, which probably moved the photographer at the time, and which still move us.
The photographs will be on display at our premises at Rua Alberto Aires de Gouveia, No. 17, between 19 April and 1 May.
Admission is free.