A Sense of Place Since 2005, The Circulation(s) Festival of Young European Photography has been devoted to promoting new voices and visions in European photography. Five artists showing at this yearâs festival explore the role of the camera lens in constructing narratives â and fantasies â of identity and place. Pedro Freitas Silva Pedro de Freitas Silva is a Portuguese photographer based in the UK, whose work explores the blurred lines between fact and fiction in human belief systems. His recent project, The Flyscreen, focuses on a village community in the Gardunha mountain range in Portugal, including snaps of barren scrubby hillsides and haunting night-portraits. Silvaâs own shots are spliced with found and collaged pictures and text: annotated maps, sepias of smoke plumes rising from mountainsides, old group camping snaps. Silva pieces together a patchwork narrative of unspecified events implied to have happened in the region several decades ago: perhaps supernatural, extraterrestrial, or politically dubious in nature. The spur for the project, according to Silva, was an archive of âobservations and texts written by A. dos S.D ⦠between 1970 and 1990,â illustrating the strange occurrences he had witnessed in the area. A cursory online search for this mysterious archivist yields no resultsâindeed, it is likely that his identity is part of the mystery.