Incidental Moments is a photography book by João Miguel Barros that brings together images captured over several years, across different places and contexts. Rather than a traditional retrospective, the book proposes a visual journey built from accidental encounters, fleeting situations, and moments that were not originally intended to form a cohesive project.
The photographs are presented without captions or explanatory texts, allowing the reader to engage freely with the images and construct their own interpretations. Through a carefully edited sequence, the book creates subtle narratives that unfold across a series of double spreads, functioning as visual chapters within a broader, open-ended structure.
Balancing intuition and editorial rigour, Incidental Moments reflects Barros’s long-standing relationship with photography, memory, and observation. The publication embraces both black-and-white and colour photography, acknowledging a personal preference for monochrome while remaining open to the expressive possibilities of colour.
More than a collection of images, Incidental Moments is an intimate and contemplative photobook, inviting slow viewing and attentive reading. A space where meaning emerges through association rather than explanation.
About the Author:
João Miguel Barros (b. 1958) is a lawyer by profession. Over the past fifteen years, he has devoted himself extensively to photography – as an author, curator, gallerist and researcher – with particular focus on contemporary Chinese and Japanese photography.
As an author, he has published several photography books, earning international awards and distinctions. As a curator, he has collaborated with various institutions in Portugal, Macau and China, and was selected to represent Macau at the 2022 Venice Art Biennale.
Three years ago, he opened Ochre Space in Lisbon (ochrespace.com), a venue dedicated to contemporary photography, where he has exhibited and promoted leading masters of Chinese and Japanese photography.
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