A Hindu Wedding in Portugal

• Prize
  Silver in People/Wedding
• Photographer
  Fernando Mendes

In 1974, after the Portuguese Revolution, the African colony of Mozambique became an independent nation. Between 1977 and 1980, much of the large Hindu community originally from former Portuguese territories of Goa, Daman and Diu, immigrated to Portugal. Sharing the languages Portuguese and Gujarati, they banded together to preserve their Indian and Hindu inheritance. The Hindu weeding of Vidata and Mahil in Lisbon (Portugal) is a trace of the Hindu culture.

Fernando Mendes (b. 1954 - Mozambique) | based in Portugal | Studied economics at ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management | long term documentary projects on the Hindu Community of Portugal, Muslims and Sikhs in Portugal | March of Alfama | Felupes from Guinea Bissau | Islam in Guinea Bissau | photographed in Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Guinea-Bissau and Macau | group exhibitions in Castro Marim, Lisbon, Oporto and Santarém | participation in the photo exhibition"European Year for Development in 2015" | training in "Picture story in Photojournalism" with Sergei Maximishin .