ENTRY DESCRIPTION
“The Latest” is journey in the lower Portuguese social class, the struggle that 3 millions of Portuguese live every day, the 30% of Portuguese population considered poor. Several of these people cannot find a job, which is so lucky very often receive a salary under 400 euros per month. Very often these families live in decadent houses or in garages sometime without electricity other time without water. The problems began before the economical crisis and then they got worst: the salaries were cut; the state helps reduced or disappeared. The lack of instruction of some member of the families, the impossibility to find a job, the terrible condition of life are the signs of a system that failed, then the economical crisis and the laws done to solve it were just the lethal blow. When there was any more hope an NGO proposed to several families to build a proper house, the families would pay just the materials and would help in the construction. This new houses doesn’t solve all their problems, but for sure they assure better condition of life and a hope that things can change.

AUTHOR
Tommaso Rada is an Italian photographer currently living in the north of Portugal, in Braga. His works has been published in several magazines and newspapers such as Financial Time, Der Spiegel, Monocle, Popoli, Popoli e Missioni, Private online edition, Expresso, Helsingin Sanomat, Courrier International, Le Pelerin and Forbes Brazil. He collaborated with Unicef Mozambique, Comunità di Sant’Egidio and Habitat for Humanity Portugal.
In 2012 he won the first prize of the Environmental category of the Estação Imagem contest, the most important photojournalism Portuguese contest, with his reportage “The Last Forest” on deforestation in Mozambique. In 2013 he was finalist in the AddRetouch documentary photography contest and he was selected for the Encontros de Imagens – Emerging photographers prize. In 2014 he won the second place in the contemporary issues of the Portuguese contest Estação Imagem, he has been selected as finalist of Beca Autores Noveles 2014 and he was finalist of the international award Revela and of the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography Grant.

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