The house of madness

Photographer

João Coelho

Category

Editorial Photography - Documentary

Company

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2025

Country / Region:

Portugal

They have not known the meaning of home or family for a long time. Most of them came from the countryside provinces and arrived in the city innocent and full of dreams, but they were soon pushed into a life of outcasts. They can only rely on themselves to survive, but at the end of the day they always return to this abandoned house to share with each other what unites them: food and drugs. Food is never enough for everyone, but it's the drugs that are most important to them. Only it allows them to travel to a world that doesn't exist in their fragile lives, even if they have to pay for a ticket of madness every day to get there