The Photographic Portrait as a Field of Forces: Politics, Identity and Resistance in Contemporary Visual Culture

Eduardo José Marcos Camilo is a lecturer in the Department of Communication, Philosophy and Politics at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal). He is a researcher at LabCom—Comunicação e Artes and conducts research in the fields of image, languages and discourses, and strategic communication, in which he has published work.

Helena Pires is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Minho's Institute of Social Sciences. She is also affiliated with the Communication and Society Research Centre at the same university. Her teaching has focused on advertising, semiotics, and the sociology of culture. Helena Pires has contributed significantly to the field of visual and urban culture, particularly in her research on urban landscapes and contemporary art, as well as on the semiotics of art.

Florin Grigoraş is a full professor at the “George Enescu” National University of the Arts in Iași, Romania, where he teaches information technology, communication in the visual arts, art–science–technology relations, and artistic creativity in the Department of Photography and Video of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design. He directs the INNOVISART Research Centre, which focuses on the use of information and communication technologies in higher arts education, and serves as editor of the international scientific journal Studies in Visual Arts and Communication. His research activity encompasses both theoretical and applied inquiry in the arts.