About

This is a personal portfolio by Afonso Rodrigues — a young Portuguese journalist working at the intersection of documentary photography and data journalism.

Photography

The photography side follows a documentary approach: slow and accumulative, returning to the same places and hours until something reveals itself. The series collected here span Lisbon, Istanbul, Coimbra and Thailand, and will keep growing as new work comes through.

Investigations

Journalistic investigations built from publicly available data. Each piece begins with a question — why is rent rising faster in one neighbourhood than the next, who is being displaced and where, what the official figures conceal as much as they reveal — and then follows the evidence until an answer, or at least a sharper question, takes shape. Sources span INE, Pordata, Eurostat, municipal registers, and freedom-of-information requests. The result is accountability journalism: numbers made readable, maps that take a position, charts that carry an argument.

Independent work.