FORVM Photo Walk #3: Santos

We’re not here to trace the new cafés on the map.
We’re not here to complain about gentrification either.

We’re here to walk through what’s left behind when a place is halfway reborn.

Santos is one of Lisbon’s oldest neighborhoods — once home to convents, noble families, and royal weddings.
But it’s also been shaped by centuries of slow collapse: fires, industry, abandonment, reinvention.
Here, palaces became embassies. Convents became courtyards.
Warehouses became design studios, but the walls still remember something else.

We’ll walk through this contradiction:
a place where nothing is finished and nothing is fully gone.

Some buildings are peeling.
Some are hiding.
Some are halfway to luxury.
Some are still waiting.

You’ll walk in teams, each with a story fragment and a starting point.
Your job isn’t to document the buildings. It’s to photograph what’s in between: the city mid-sentence.

We’re not here to take clean pictures.
We’re here to take honest ones.

### 📍 Structure:

🟡 This is not a guided tour. You’ll receive a map and a story prompt.
🟡 You’ll walk in small teams, discovering as you go.
🟡 The walk lasts about 1 hour and ends somewhere local for a drink and sharing.
🟡 All cameras welcome: phones, film, digital, whatever sees.
🟡 No photoshoots. No content farming. Just presence — and maybe a good frame.

Free event, limited RSVP slots.
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Let’s get lost with purpose.
Let’s take pictures like they’re whispers.