Bruno Colaço

Photojournalist/Documentary Photographer
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The Condo: Consequences of a long-term financial crisis
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality: Portuguese
Biography: Bruno was born in 1984 and he is a Lisbon-based photojournalist and documentary photographer. In 2006 he ended his studies in photography and photojournalism at the Portuguese Institute of Photography. Since then, he has covered news and stories... MORE
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The Condo: Consequences of a long-term financial crisis
Copyright Bruno Colaço 2024
Date of Work Apr 2013 - Aug 2018
Updated Apr 2022
Topics Capitalism, Community, Crisis, Documentary, Financial crisis, Homelessness, Human Rights, Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, Social crisis
According to official information, it’s estimated that the Portuguese construction sector has a debt of 19 billion euros to banks and that this area has been losing about 198 jobs per day in 2013.

The Bella Guarda condo, located on the outskirts of Lisbon was presented in March 2006. The project, consisting of two blocks and 75 apartments offered to its future owners a privileged view over the Tagus River, private park, rooftop pool, mini-golf, green areas, children's playground, video surveillance system, and sound system. However, like many other projects whose construction began before the financial crisis, it turned out incomplete due to the bankruptcy of the builder, and the property passed into the hands of a private bank.

With the worsening of the financial crisis in Portugal, a serious social crisis raised. Progressively the condo started to be occupied by people who had slept on the streets for years, but also by people who lost their jobs recently and no longer could afford to pay for the houses in which they lived. Some of them came just passing by, others to stay.

To gain protection they blocked the windows and doors with wooden planks, took with them the little or nothing that they possessed, and started to call that place their new “home”.
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