Behind the Shutter: Patrícia de Melo Moreira on photographing Portugal’s inferno
In the summer of 2017 catastrophic wildfires claimed more than 100 lives and 44,969 hectares of Portuguese land. Photographer Patricia de Melo Moreira witnessed and recorded the beginning of that "dark summer", when the first fire in Pedrógão Grande started spreading to neighbouring areas including Góis, Pampilhosa da Serra and Arganil. De Melo Moreira, whose work earned her the first prize of the Estacao Imagem de Coimbra festival, told The Telegraph about what it was like to…