The third edition of the Bienal Fotografia do Porto presented 70 artists and 14 curators from 27 countries. This edition introduced four action platforms VIVIFICAR, SUSTENTAR, CONECTAR and EXPANDIR to assess contemporary socioecological paradigms and re-imagine possible and regenerative future.

The Bienal second edition proposed participating curators and artists reflect on and interrogate what constitutes interdependence between natural and human systems considered within a complex global matrix of cultural, social and political relationships that have determined this point of ecological fragility; and the necessary transition from a dominant narrative of separation to a narrative of inclusion; a position that accepts everything and everyone, humans and non-humans, as political subjects of a universal polis.

How can we transition towards a better adapted and more sustainable society, and how can thinking and artistic practice creatively expand discourse to translate into action? The first Bienal Fotografia do Porto, titled 'Adaptation and Transition', proposed a dialogue to address the current social and environmental crisis.