scopio - International Photography Magazine

On The Surface – International Seminar

The second edition of the International Seminar "On the surface: Public Space and Architectural Images in Debate" aims to continue the success of its first edition that proved to be an important forum for debate and reflection about public space and architectural images, whose work can be seen in http://www.scopiomagazine.com and in the catalog that will be published in 2011 On the Surface: Public Space and Architectural Images in Debate.

The seminar aims to promote a global critical analysis of the relations between architectural images and public imaginaries and to understand how different types of images build diverse worlds: between fiction and documentary, reproduction and manipulation, or analog and digital.

More info at: http://www.nasuperficie.ccre-online.com.

Until next time,

Production Manager Director

Bruno Moreira

21th November 2011.

SCOPIO Magazine #1 2/3: Aboveground City released!

We are pleased to announce that the release of our second issue took place on the 27th October 2011, at Passos Manuel Cinema in Porto. Here are some of its moments.

Until next time,

Production Manager Director

Bruno Moreira

9th November 2011.

SCOPIO Magazine #1 2/3: Aboveground City coming soon! + Photography Workshop "Urban Realities"

We are pleased to announce that the release of our second issue will take place on the 27th October 2011, at Passos Manuel Cinema in Porto. This time the focus is in the "city" rather than in the "architecture" by itself.

Our publisher, CITYSCOPIO, is also involved in the organization of the photography workshop and cycle of debate "Urban Realities". More info here.

Until next time,

Production Manager Director

Bruno Moreira

9th September 2011.

SCOPIO Magazine in ARCHIZINES exhibition

The Architectural Association is hosting an ARCHIZINES exhibition in London from 5 November to 14 December 2011. The exhibition will showcase 60 architectural magazines, fanzines and journals from 20 countries around the world and include video interviews with their creators. We are happy to inform you that SCOPIO Magazine will be there.

The National Art Library, a public reference library for the study of art, craft and design at the Victoria & Albert Museum, has also offered to provide a permanent home for the publications collected as part of the ARCHIZINES research project. SCOPIO will be avaiable there, along with books and manuscripts concerning international fine and decorative arts from different periods.

Until next time,

Production Manager Director

Bruno Moreira

23rd August 2011.

Exhibition in "Palácio das Artes - Feiras Francas"

Following the collaborative work developed by the group linked to the photography of architecture and public space, which belongs to the R&D center of FAUP, and the "Palácio das Artes", we invite you to attend the opening of the joint exhibition "On the Surface - The Periphery of the Center: Álvares Cabral / Campanhã."

This exhibition opens with the Feira Franca "Shapes and Volumes" on May 28 at "Palácio das Artes" and contains the work developed in the workshop of the International Seminar "On the Surface: Public Space and Architectural Images in Debate" that was held at Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto in 2010, with the support from OASRN and FBAUP.

The exposed photography works have a sharp character-fiction character and want to draw attention to the problems of desertification in the downtown areas, where demand for housing has collapsed, and areas of Campanhã where there is a lack of cultural facilities and other services, thereby helping to revitalize these areas. In fact, this type of exploratory work that makes significant use of photography, integrating documentary and fictional universes, has revealed a great potential for revitalizing city spaces and their living.

Until next time,

Production Manager Director

Bruno Moreira

23rd May 2011.

SCOPIO and LIMITED EDITIONS in "Palácio das Artes - Feiras Francas"

SCOPIO - editorial line related to photography and architecture and public space image, that had as inspiration the bookzines and zines, and where photography images are used as research instruments that allows us to rediscover new perspectives about space.

LIMITED EDITIONS - for each theme we invite a renowned artist to sell, for a symbolic price, a limited edition of one of his works. All limited editions have a maximum print number of 100 copies, printed in a known studio, sold with a certificate of authenticity and hand-signed by the author.

Event held at Palácio das Artes - Fábrica de Talentos - Porto - largo de S. Domingos - 12th Edition, 26 March 2011 - Free Entrance

Until next time,

Production Manager Director

Bruno Moreira

25th March 2011.

SCOPIO in "Feira do Livro de Fotografia"

I am glad to inform you that scopio will be present at the event "Feira do Livro de Fotografia" which will be held in Lisbon (10-12 December 2010) at Fábrica Braço de Prata (2nd floor, Wittgenstein room).

More info about the event at: APPh (Portuguese Association of Photography).

Until next time,

Production Manager Director

Bruno Moreira

10th December 2010.

Buy SCOPIO online in WOOK and BERTRAND

I am giving more good news: besides our own online shop, scopio can also be bought in wook (http://www.wook.pt/ficha/scopio-magazine-n-1/a/id/10282686) and Bertrand (http://www.bertrand.pt/catalogo/detalhes_produto.php?id=277898) online bookshops.

It is also important to announce that an important distributor is already working with scopio – COMPANHIA DAS ARTES – LIVROS E DISTRIBUIÇÃO, LDA, CIPC – which is responsible for distributing the magazine in Portuguese speaking countries. The fact that scopio's magazine first issue #1 Aboveground architecture has caught the interest of significant bookshops, that it is being well received by the market and that international distributors are also interested in allocating it around the world are all very good reports for our magazine.

Until next time,

Director

Pedro Leão Neto

30th November 2010.

SCOPIO Magazine in Shrapnel

Even though we have been keeping a low profile during these few weeks of existence because of administrative and formal reasons, we have already been mentioned positively in many sites and places and you can read about us, for example, in shrapnel contemporary, pedro gadanho´s blog (http://shrapnelcontemporary.wordpress.com/). Pedro Gadanho is the editor-in-chief of Beyond, curator of Shrapnel and an architect and writer, and a lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (Portugal). Shrapnel is a blog that has taken the place of the literary notion of the fragment and explores ideas relating architecture, culture and contemporary urban practice. Besides other things, Pedro writes in shrapnel that in scopio magazine "....besides several visual and theoretical essays – that twice reach to specific notions related to curating architecture, but may also focus on local production – this first issue on Aboveground Architecture also provides in its Addendum the surprisingly good results of student seminars in which photography provided the instrument to analyze specific urban contexts.".

Until next time,

Director

Pedro Leão Neto

22th November 2010.

How to buy SCOPIO Magazine

It is very satisfying for me and SCOPIO´s team to tell you that scopio's magazine first issue: #1 Aboveground architecture has been very well received by all our friends, as well as having  caught the interest of important distributors and already sold in these two last weeks a significant amount of issues. It can be bought right now at A+A (http://www.livrariaamaisa.pt/) or B-Shop at CCB (http://www.in-uteis.com/) and through our online SHOP that is now already active (http://www.scopiomagazine.com/#shop). It is also possible to buy the magazine in FAUP, at the AEFAUP bookshop (http://aefaup.pt/start.php?n=1#liv).

Until next time,

Director

Pedro Leão Neto

12th November 2010.

scopio - International Photography Magazine

Aboveground - Architecture #1 1/3 + Addendum

This first issue of Scopio features Filip Dujardin, Manuel Graça Dias, Hélène Binet, Virgílio Ferreira, Carlos Lobo, Pedro Bandeira, Eszter Steierhoffer, João Salaviza, Michelle Domingos, Patrícia Azevedo Santos, Alexandre Delmar, Luís Ribeiro da Silva, Álvaro Domingues, José Carneiro, Luís Tavares Pereira, Rui Tavares and Susana Lourenço Marques

scopio - International Photography Magazine

Aboveground - City #1 2/3

This second issue of Scopio features Paulo Catrica, Philippe Ruault, André Cepeda, Nuno Grande, Dietrich Neumann, Ema Sara Ribeiro, Virgílio Ferreira, Cristina Sevla, Carlos Machado, Maroš Krivý, Mariana Pestana, Beatrice Galilee, Gonçalo Dias, Ângela Frias, Rui Neto, Andrzej Maciejewski, Isabel Coimbra, Maria João Lopes, Susana Ventura, Miguel Pinho and Inês Moreira.

Aboveground - Architecture #1 1/3

Aboveground - Architecture #1 2/3

SCOPIO International Photography Contests

Scopio will be organizing several international photography contests and for each issue there will be, at least, one contest related to its theme which will be published in scopio magazine and in the web (see here) encouraging, with this, the public to register on the website Espaço F-FAUP and to publish their photographic projects there. Thus, in each issue we shall announce the theme for the next one in order to prompt your participation in the contest and register in Espaço F-FAUP, and give more opportunities for new authors to present projects that can add richness to the contents of the themes being explored throughout the various publications. It will also allow authors to participate and register projects before the deadline of the contest.

Current Contest

"Aboveground - Territory"
Deadline for entries: February 15 - 2012

Download Rules:
- English (download )
- Português (download )
or request by email to contest@cityscopio.com