Alfredo Brant

Alfredo Brant is a researcher at the Center for Communication and Culture Studies (CECC) at Portuguese Catholic University, focusing on intersections between photography, political discourse, and ecological crisis. His work spans cultural studies, documentary poetics, and visual narrative theory.

• Biopolitics and wildlife photographic representation (2020)
• Dislocations and documentary poetics: memories within images and words (2021)
• The Unknown Soldier's Wife (2021)
• Nostalgic knots: a Lisbon vignette (2024)

His research explores how visual media shapes cultural memory and environmental consciousness, particularly through wildlife photography and documentary practices. Key collaborations include work with Alec Soth and Teresa Mengue Thaler on photobook analysis and narrative architecture.

• Chair at XI Graduate Conference in Culture Studies: The Cultural Politics of Hope (2021)
• Participant in conference on Islamophobia in Portugal (2022)
• Co-organizer of Photographic Reflections workshop (2021)