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JAMAIKA Book launch at Bronx Documentary Center
josé sarmento matos
May 28, 2024
The Bronx Documentary Center invites you to José Sarmento Matos's Book launch and talk on June 6th, 2024 from 6:30 - 8:30pm EDT.. The book titled Jamaika is an intimate documentary portrait that tells the story of Bairro da Jamaica, a community often racialised and marginalised in Portugal.
JAMAIKA is a chronicle of the lives of residents in Portugal’s Bairro da Jamaica, a neighborhood torn apart by change as homes are demolished for development and its inhabitants—mostly African immigrants from Portugal’s former colonies—are displaced and rehoused.
Photographer José Sarmento Matos spent more than three years with families in the neighborhood, gaining intimate access to their lives and their struggles. His photographs reveal a resilient community faced with an existential crisis, fighting for dignified housing and a chance to thrive.
Join Matos for a presentation of his book and screening of the short film he made in the neighborhood, in conversation with Enterprise Assignment Photo Editor for Bloomberg News, Marie Monteleone.
José Sarmento Matos (@josesarmentomatos) is a Portuguese documentary photographer based in London and Lisbon. He focuses his work on medium/long-term projects on themes related to identity and social inequality. He has published his work in media outlets such as The New York Times, New Yorker, Newsweek, Washington Post, and collaborates with Bloomberg, Le Monde, HBO and HISTORY.
Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Avenue Bronx, NY 10451
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