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Opened in 2013, the George Dussaud Photography Centre is dedicated to the French photographer Georges Dussaud and to the photography in general. It is located in the first floor of the Paulo Quintela building, presenting a unique exhibition of the notorious photographer together with temporary exhibitions.

George Dussaud is carrying out his work about our country since 1980, focusing mostly on Trás-os-Montes. The impressive black and white pictures portrait life stories, the untouched rural universe and the villages where men, women and children once lived. They depict stories of places, experiences, hardworking people, rituals, gestures and unrepeatable moments that belong to unspoiled Trás-os-Montes.

This extraordinary collection of about 200 pictures, where the documentary and artistic character stands out, is a positive and poetic vision about reality as the author always claimed to his work.