"Despojos de Guerra" (Spoils of War) is a documentary photography essay that was born with the disabled people of the Portuguese Armed Forces. It was born, in particular, with the severely disabled who were wounded during the 13 years of the Colonial War (1961-1974).  It's a work that doesn't stop at the war itself, but seeks out stories of resistance and overcoming from the young soldiers of that time, who had to fight for society to accept them as the whole men they are. It's also a project that doesn't end in Portugal. By crossing the tracks, entering the bush and knowing where to look, it is possible to travel back in time in Africa, where there are so many silent and living testimonies of the conflict. It's the other side, less known over here, of those who fought for the independence movements in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, but also of the Africans who were part of the Portuguese Army. The indelible marks on the bodies of men and women who, as children, took up arms for the FNLA in Angola's Dembos region, for the MPLA in Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Tete and also for those who fought for the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau. These are the ones who speak, with their voice or their gaze. The silence is from the spaces. From the cemeteries where Portuguese soldiers were buried, which are now abandoned, from the places where machine-gun fire punched lives of all colours, from the prisons of Salazarism, from the silent memories. A silence of death. Of many thousands of deaths. Using techniques that range from pioneering photography to digital support, they will end up in what will be the definitive supports for the work, a book and an exhibition."