“Real Lisbon” through the lenses of Stephen O’Regan and Rita Ansone
By Kimberley Lestieux,
in News, Lisbon ·
14-05-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Irish filmmaker Stephen O’Regan and Latvian photographer Rita Ansone started the “People of Lisbon” project nine months ago, telling the stories of “real” Lisboetas, that often underline the diversity of the capital’s residents.
Wearing his usual dark green “burglar” beanie as he likes to call it, I met Stephen O’Regan, creator of “People of Lisbon”, in a café downtown where we talked about his project between a few bites of banana bread and coffee. The filmmaker - even though he doesn’t know if he considers himself to be a filmmaker because he “doesn’t really know what that means” - makes videos each week, about a resident of the capital whether it’s a journalist turned laundromat owner, a tuktuk driver or a fado artist/restaurant owner. He has been living in Lisbon since July of last year, after living in New York for eight years.