EL SALTO (19/10/2025) Una enorme presa construida con fondos públicos en el sureste de Portugal prometió desarrollar una de las regiones más
I have written about a wide range of subjects, including birders and borders, political prisoners, black flowers blooming in the desert and communities resisting mining projects.
I am drawn to stories that highlight hope, beauty, and joy in unlikely places. My work focuses on resistance, courage, and kindness in the face of oppression, violence and environmental destruction; on the ways people respond to adversity with creativity and resourcefulness, and on how oppressed and marginalised groups express defiance.
I hope my work fosters solidarity, engagement and accountability.
GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE (August) The Alqueva dam promised prosperity for Portugal’s parched south. Instead, it’s fuelling a corporate-driven monoculture that ecologists and farmers
EURONEWS (13/4/25) Standing under an enormous olive tree, José Pedro Oliveira gently caresses its gnarled trunk. “It is more than one thousand
FUNDAÇÃO JOSÉ SARAMAGO (8/3/2025) Painel “A Palavra Escrita e a Visibilidade do Invisível” sobre a importância que a criação do «outro» tem
BBC (9/8/2024) “My two favourite animals are sheep and wolves,” says Miguel Afonso as he looks over his flock of 200 sheep
THE GUARDIAN (6/6/2024) Sitting in the shade of an olive tree in the valley of Ein Qiniya, northwest of Ramallah, wildlife photographer
NEW LINES MAGAZINE (24/4/2024) Under the banner of a “green transition,” the EU is rushing to revive mining to secure critical raw
BBC (13/3/2024) On a cold, misty morning, a herd of dun-coloured Sorraia horses, an endangered local breed, graze on grass and small
WASHINGTON POST (3/2/2024) The rhythmic noise of axes whacking trees echoes in the depths of the cork oak forest. But in Coruche,