Teresa Mendes Flores is the principal investigator of the Photo Impulse project at ICNOVA where she coordinates the Culture, Mediation and Arts research group, and is a member of the board of direction. Currently she is one of the main editors of the Journal of Communication and Languages (ISSN 2183-7198). Previously funded projects in which she participated as a researcher include: Feminine Politics – Gender Politics and Strategies Oriented Towards Visibility of Women Members of Parliament (2008-2011), History of the Visual Culture of Medicine in Portugal (2010-2013), Culture at the Front Page – A Study of the Portuguese Newspapers During the First Decade of This Century (2012-2014), Stereo Visual Culture – The Visual Culture of Portuguese Stereoscopic Photography (2012-2015). For her postdoctoral degree she studied the Photography of the Portuguese Scientific Expeditions (2012-2017), she lectures in the fields of semiotics, visual media archaeology and image theory, focusing on photography and film.

António Fernando Cascais is a professor at the School of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University of Lisbon and an integrated researcher at ICNOVA. He organized the books: Mediações da Ciência – Da Compreensão Pública da Ciência à Mediação dos Saberes – Um Reader [Mediations of Science – From Public Understanding of Science to the Mediation of Knowledge – A Reader] (ICNOVA, 2019), Olhares sobre a Cultura Visual da Medicina em Portugal [Views on the Visual Culture of Medicine in Portugal] (Unyleya, 2014), Indisciplinar a teoria [Undisciplining theory] (Fenda, 2004), A SIDA por um Fio [AIDS by a Thread] (Vega, 1997) and, in collaboration, O Vírus-cinema: Cinema Queer e VIH/sida [Cinema-virus: Queer Cinema and HIV / AIDS] (Lisbon, 2018), Queer Cinema and Culture. Queer Lisbon – Queer International Film Festival (Lisbon, 2014), Hospital Miguel Bombarda 1968 – Fotografias de José Fontes [Miguel Bombarda Hospital 1968 – Photographs by José Fontes] (Documenta, 2016), Lei, Segurança, Disciplina. Trinta anos depois de Vigiar e punir de Michel Foucault [Law, Security, Discipline. Thirty years after Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault] (CFCUL, 2009), and nº 19 (1994), 33 (2004) and 38 (2007) of the Journal of Communication and Languages. Researcher responsible for the FCT Projects History of the Visual Culture of Medicine in Portugal and Models and Practices of Science Communication in Portugal.

Filipa Lowndes Vicente is a researcher in history at the Institute of Social Sciences at University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London, from which resulted the book Travels and Exhibitions: D. Pedro V in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Gótica, 2003) awarded the Victor de Sá prize in contemporary history (2004). Her research concentrates on the modes of knowledge production in the 19th and 20th centuries, the intersections between visual, material and written culture, and colonialism, as well as the history of women writers and artists. She published various books: Other Orientalisms – India between Florence and Bombay (1860-1900) (ICS, 2009/ Orient BlackSwan, 2012/ Florence University Press, 2012); Between Two Empires. British Travelers in Goa (1800-1940); A Arte sem História – Mulheres e Cultura Artística (sec. XVI-XX) [Art without History. Women and Artistic Culture (16th – 20th century)] (Athena, 2012); Aurélia de Sousa, Mulher Artista (Tinta da China, 2016). She coordinated the project Knowledge and Vision – Photography within the Portuguese colonial archive and museum (1850-1950).
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Maria do Carmo Piçarra is a researcher at ICNOVA and a professor at Autonoma University of Lisbon. She was assistant chair of the Institute of Cinema, Audiovisual and Multimedia (1998-1999), founder and co-editor (2012-2018) of ANIKI – Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento [Portuguese Journal of Image in Motion]; she is a film critic and programmer. She was an FCT fellow (PhD and postdoctoral), a grantee of the Gulbenkian Fine Arts Service and of the Fundação Oriente (2018-20). She taught at ISCTE-IUL (2012-2016) and at the Higher School of Education – Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (2014). She has published, among other titles and articles: Azuis Ultramarinos – Propaganda Colonial e Censura no Cinema do Estado Novo [Ultramarine Blues – Colonial Propaganda and Censorship in the New State Cinema] (Almedina, 2015); Salazar vai ao cinema I e II [Salazar goes to the movies I and II] (Minerva, 2006 and 2011); she coordinated, with Jorge António, the trilogy Angola – O Nascimento de uma Nação [Angola – The Birth of a Nation] (Guerra & Paz, 2013, 2014, 2015) and, with Teresa Castro, (Re)Imagining African Independence. Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire (Peter Lang, 2017).

Paula Cristina Santos is a researcher at the National Museum of Science and Natural History (MUHNAC). She has a degree in Geographic Engineering from the School of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and has fulfilled Pedagogical Aptitude and Scientific Capacity Tests and public exams equivalent to the doctorate in the area of geodesy. Her professional career took place mainly at the Institute for Tropical Scientific Research (IICT) where she participated in several projects in the field of geodesy, cooperative actions with the PALOP and, in recent years, activities for the dissemination of geodetic heritage. As a member of MUHNAC since 2016, she is the curator of the Lisbon Astronomical Observatory, the Border Archives and the IICT and MUHNAC geodesy and astronomy collections.

Teresa Castro is Associate Professor in Film Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (2010-2011) and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2011). Part of her research has focused on photography and film in colonial situations and she collaborated in the curating of the film cycle Liberation Movements in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau (1961-1974), organized by the festival Doclisboa in 2011. Her publications on these topics include articles and book chapters on Portuguese colonial photography, scientific and ethnographic films made in Angola or the way in which Portuguese contemporary artists have explored colonial archive images. She published La Pensée Cartographique des Images – Cinéma et Culture Visuelle (Aléas, 2011) and co-edited, with Maria do Carmo Piçarra, (Re)Imagining African Independence – Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire (Peter Lang, 2017).

Elizabeth Edwards is a visual and historical anthropologist and is currently Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute, London. She is Professor Emerita of Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she was Director of the Photographic History Research Centre from 2011- 2016. She is also Honorary Professor in the Department of Anthropology University College London. Until 2005 she was Curator of Photographs at Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer in visual anthropology at ISCA, University of Oxford, where she is a Curator Emerita and Research Affiliate. Specialising in the social and material practices of photography, she has worked extensively on the relationships between photography, anthropology and history for over 30 years.

Bruno Miguel dos Santos graduated in Computer Engineering from the Engineering Institute of Coimbra and from the Universidade Metodista de Angola (2013), he worked at the company Critical Software (Coimbra), having returned to Angola in 2012, to Ministério dos Petróleos de Angola; he worked in this field until 2019. In parallel, he developed his activity as a photographer, passing through several magazines and projects and creating his own photography company: Só no Click, having now 10 years of experience in wedding and product photography and photojournalism. He is currently a finalist for the Degree in Photography at the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies. He carries out a curricular internship at the Museum of Natural History and Science, for which he photographs materials from various collections of the Museum, including albums and photographic material for the Photo Impulse project.

José Pedro Baptista began his studies in Chemistry and Biology at the College of Science of the University of Lisbon, also dedicating himself to theater at C.E.M – Centro em Movimento. He graduated in London from the London College of Communication, where he addressed The Problems of Adapting a Book for Film, comparing 3 film adaptations of Macbeth. He collaborated with the Estoril Film Festival collaborating in the festival programming and coordinating the catalogue. He has a Master’s Degree in Communication Sciences (2010, FCSH–UNL), with the thesis O tédio enquanto configuração contemporânea [Boredom as a contemporary configuration]. He is a grantee of FCT since 2019, and is currently developing his doctoral project, O obsceno: a representação de um lugar impossível [The obscene: the representation of an impossible place]. He is a self-taught piano player and skateboarder.

Philipp Teuchmannis a PhD candidate in Communication Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon, FCSH. In 2021 he concluded at the same institution and in the same field of studies his master’s degree with the dissertation Da Operatividade Gráfica: o Diagramático em Três Exemplos da Arte Contemporânea. There he seeks to think about the diagrammatic regime of comunication and the multiple concretizations of the diagram in the context of various contemporary artistic practices. He currently integrates two projects: African-European Narratives and Photo-Impulse. In both he works on a post-colonial critique of the western image and its scopic function by focusing on the role played by diagrammatics and the photographic image within the larger framework of colonial epistemology and science. The African-European Narratives project also entails an investigation on the ways through which the digital condition may contribute to the (de)construction of the aforementioned scopic function. Philipp’s academic interests are media theory and media aesthetics, semiotics, contemporary art and cultural studies.

Alzira Tude de Sá holds a PhD in Information Science from the Federal University of Bahia-Ufba (2016), Master in Languages ​​Study: Reading, Literature and Identity from State University of Bahia-Uneb (2006). Graduated in Library and Documentation (1970) and Journalism (1971) from UFba. She is a professor of the Archivology Course at the Institute of Information Science at the Ufba, working in the areas of Information Science, Memory and Information, Information Representation and Mediation, currently developing theoretical and epistemological studies on Photography. Her master’s dissertation, defended in 2006, analyzes the literary criticism about Gabriela, harpsichord and cinnamon, by writer Jorge Amado, and since 2016, as a doctor, she has turned to the study of the Amadian sociocultural universe, through the reading and analysis of images of the writer’s house, which has earned him the presentation and publication of works in national and foreign events and periodicals. The thesis defended was published by the Federal University of Bahia-Brazil Publishing House, entitled “Photographic mediation reveals the place of intimacy: Jorge Amado’s house.”