Asif Faruki is a visual artist with a proficient career that encompasses photography, drawing and other forms of artistic expression. With a degree in Visual Arts and Artistic Technologies from the Porto Polytechnic School of Education, Asif has developed a sensitivity to observing and recording direct and indirect human presence in spaces.

His work seeks to question and understand the daily circumstances associated with places, translating them into visual stories that dialogue with universal themes such as death and mourning. In the project ‘Through the Shadows’, Asif uses photography as a tool to explore the dichotomy between light and shadow, presence and absence, past and eternity, through the ephemeral marks left by time. In this project he began documenting the cemeteries of Toural in Bragança, Agramonte in Porto and Fajão in Pampilhosa da Serra, where the gravestones and funerary sculptures bear witness to the passage of time and the dialogue between collective memory and the landscape. Through his photographs, he reflects on how mourning spaces become places of material and immaterial heritage, allowing unique perspectives on death and the preservation of memory, where death takes on a poetic and romantic dimension.

Through the Shadows is in essence, a meditation on the ephemeral and the permanent. For Asif, each photograph is an attempt to capture the intersection between past and present, between life and death. The cemeteries he documents become settings rich in stories, heritage and emotion, offering new perspectives on how human beings interact with time, memory and space.