Emerging in Portugal in the late 70s and early 80s, football supporters has, over time, become more organized and rooted in the football games environment, being a show inside the show.
In addition to bringing colorful and contagious songs, inside and outside the stadiums, the temples where this pagan sacrament celebration is officiated.
The Super Dragons' supporters feed passions and overcome disappointments, unite people, creating strong bonds, like a family, solidified by religious devotion: the love for FC Porto.
A love that not even the covid-19 pandemic shut up.
A football suffered from a distance, with the stands empty of supporters.
As part of the photographic project 'No One Can Silence Our Love', the series of portraits seeks to explore individual and group identity.
The sociocultural and generational structure is responsible for the construction of this identity, strengthened by the feeling of belonging to a group.
The atmosphere of union and family, in the Super Dragons' supporters, translates into a vision of multiplicity of generations full of passion, which vibrates inside and outside the stadiums.
In recognition of FC Porto, even at a time when the stands were empty, the Super Dragons were awarded the 'Golden Dragon 2020 - Partner of the Year', for their devotion, dedication and support across the country until the end of the season, and which was reflected in the conquest of the 19/20 Portuguese championship and the Cup.
An intimate environment experience inside of the Super Dragons, captured during 9 months, from January to September 2020, inside and outside the stadium, inside and outside the football show, revealed in these photographic serie.
Portugal
© 2020 Igor Martins