Written text by Teresa Siza, Director of the Portuguese Center of Photography.

Feeling the seduction of Bruce Gilden's images has to be understood as a dangerous challenge-dangerous because it upsets and questions us in a field where realization is more difficult- to our more spontaneous convictions marked by the irrational of desire. We recognize in these images the fearful complicity of the group against the "other" and we feel that that "other" is ourselves; we review the many "Esmeraldas" in our imaginary and wandering gypsy of our eternal envy as sedentary people and our feeling of guilt,...