Portal de Lorca
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In this exhibition, organized by the Social Work of La Caixa and the city of Lorca, provision could be free from Monday to Saturday from 11 to 14 and from 17 to 20 hours
until 13 January, the best works entered in the competition that the social work of the Savings Bank.
FotoPres'07 exposure brings together the work of three photographers awarded this year: Elisa Gonzalez, with work on Alzheimer's, Lorena Ros, a series of photographs of child abuse, and Pep Bonet, a report on the effects civil war in Sierra Leone, which takes as its starting point a football tournament with players who have suffered some form of amputation.
The mayor lorquino thanked the "maintaining constant liaison with the City La Caixa and society of Lorca, for example, with cultural activities as we are inaugurating today."
FotoPres scholarships are aimed at young photographers so they can make photo projects and publicize their work.
One of the features are taken into account is the nature of research, which leads to the photographers to go into the reality of different places and human communities.
Grants this year have been for Fernando Maquieira, Jorquera, Paola de Grenet, Salvi Vivancos, Marta Soul and Antonio M.
Xoubanova, who have done stories on Route 40 that runs along the Andes, contemporary China, albinos in the region of La Rioja Argentina, the lives of Ecuadorians in Spain, immigration and patterns of living of the middle class and human and social transformation caused by the burial of the M30 as it passes through Madrid.
The exhibition includes a total of 129 photographs.
Since its inception in 1982, the prize FotoPres is one of the signs of identity of the Fundación "La Caixa".
Born with the desire to highlight the work of photographers, not valued and did not know enough.
Since then it has echoed the changes that have occurred in press photography, which has increasingly become a means to sensitize the viewer to the conflict and create opinion.
Over twenty-five, FotoPres has been a witness to the changes in our environment and the growing interest in social issues.
More information about the awards FotoPres'07
Elisa Gonzalez - First Prize FotoPres'07
Memories of memory. Series of 16 color photographs
For a year and a half, Elisa Gonzalez has shot his grandmother, Maria Canelo, suffering from Alzheimer's in their environment, caregivers, and has captured the progression of the disease, with tenderness and fear.
"I felt the need to document what was happening.
It's something visceral, not a project. "In the photographs of Elisa Gonzalez, a vacant stare, a swirl of hair, a stiff hand, they become symbols of lost identity.
Lorena Ros - Second Prize FotoPres'07
In that place ...
Stories of childhood sexual abuse. Series of 10 color photographs
Lorena Ros's work has a narrative base, traces the history of men and women who suffered childhood sexual abuse, are portrayed in their everyday environment and return to the places where there was experience.
Back to talk about it, photographing people and places becomes a means of exorcism and reunion with oneself.
Pep Bonet - Third Prize FotoPres'07
Third World Cup Series of 10 photographs in black and white
In the refugee camp of Murray Town, Freetown (Sierra Leone), Pep Bonet photographed in February 2001, a football tournament among 22 boys who had suffered the amputation of legs or arms due to war injuries.
The sport has allowed these young people to find incentives to deal with their drama and become true athletes.
Fernando Maquieira - Scholarship FotoPres'07
Route 40. Series of 20 color photographs
Maquieira Fernando has done a photo essay on the famous Route 40, bordering the Andes by the Argentina side.
The pictures do not follow any route or thematic order, are illuminations highlighting the exceptional nature of meeting places and people.
The faint traces of human presence in the landscape evoke the look of the early settlers.
Antonio M.
Xoubanova - Scholarship FotoPres'07
M30. Series of 14 color photographs
The burial of the Madrid ring road, the M30, causing a host of urban and social transformations.
Antonio M.
Xoubanova has created a tapestry of images that highlights the contrast between the magnitude of the work Pharaonic and everyday experience of people living nearby.
Marta Soul - Scholarship FotoPres'07
Wellhome. Series 7 color photographs
Marta's photographs are portraits of women Soul displaced, but nothing to indicate at first glance that it is immigrants.
The clothes, hairstyles and careful staging eliminate the differences and erase any trace of social or political violence.
The innocent eyes of the photographer exposes stereotypical social behaviors that tend to erase the identity of individuals.
Paola de Grenet - Scholarship FotoPres'07
Albinos of La Rioja in Argentina. Series of 20 color photographs
The Aicuña people in the province of La Rioja Argentina, the foothills of the Andes, live in a great isolation from the time of the conquest.
This makes the rate of albinism there is three thousand times higher than the general population of Argentina.
Paola de Grenet has taken this phenomenon as a starting point for a photographic work on the uniqueness, the sense of difference, the beauty and the other's gaze.
Salvi Vivancos - Scholarship FotoPres'07
District.
Lifestyle Ecuadorian community in Spain. Series of 12 color photographs
Few kilometers from San Javier in Murcia province, next to a highway, there is a large open grounds, the District, where weekends meet Ecuadorian families.
Salvi Vivancos has photographed this forgotten space to highlight the dialectic between the reality of social exclusion and the desire for integration, the claim of national identity and the desire for coexistence with other cultures.
Jorquera - Scholarship FotoPres'07
Radiochina. Series of 20 color photographs
Jorquera's work has been compared with travel by Jonathan Swift imaginary countries.
Jorquera's China is made up of enigmatic images, prints, traces, fragments, deleted or trembling landscapes, fugitive faces and bodies that reflect a contemporary state of mind.
Biography of the prize winners
Elisa Gonzalez was born in Madrid in 1978.
He graduated in chemical engineering from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
That same year he decided to pursue photography professionally.
He specializes in documentary photography and studies the master of the School of Photography and Imaging Center EFTI in Madrid.
During that period, he began his project Memories of memory, which portrays the daily life of an Alzheimer patient.
In summer 2006, obtained a grant from the World Press Photo, Asia-Europe Foundation and the Philippine Center for Photojournalism, to form part of the 'Urban Youth' in Manila (Philippines), where the story takes place Dancing Manila, which reflects the lives of young students from the dance school Step Dance Studio in Makati.
This work is projected at Mall of Asia (Manila).
Today, while continuing to develop their project Memories of memory, works as a freelance photographer in the field of architecture and urbanism, and collaborates with agencies such as the Ministry of Health in campaigns to prevent drug abuse.
Lorena Ros was born in Barcelona in 1975.
He graduated in Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
Start in the world of photography in the local newspaper in London Hackney Gazette, until he decides to pursue higher education at the London College of Printing.
In 2001 began working on the arrival of immigrants to the Spanish coast (World Press Photo 2001, Single General News).
Will be the beginning of a project that will develop in the next two years on the trafficking of Nigerian women in Europe (Grant FotoPres'03).
For this work receives Honorable Mention in the World Press Photo 2004 and won the Amnesty International One World Media Award 2005.
In 2004, thanks to a grant from the Generalitat of Catalonia, documents the phenomenon of Latino gangs in Madrid and Barcelona (El País Semanal and Magazine of La Vanguardia). In 2005 he was selected and participated in the Joop Swart Masterclass of World Press Photo in Amsterdam, where he presents the issue of childhood sexual abuse.
His work has been exhibited and screened at festivals such as Visa pour l'Image (Perpignan), meetings of Arles Photography and the World Press Photo, as well as the cultural center La Casa Lit de Madrid, among others.
Works as a freelance photographer.
He currently lives in New York.
Pep Bonet was born in Colonia de Sant Jordi (Mallorca) in 1974.
At age 17, he moved to Amsterdam and studied photography.
Is selected by World Press Photo Masterclass (2002), younger than 30 years, for his work in Sierra Leone Faith.
PDN Magazine Photo Annual New York selected him as one of the top 30 young talents of the year (2002).
Wins Kodak Young Photographer of the Year (2003) with Faith in Chaos at Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan.
With Blind Faith wins the FotoPres (2003) and first prize Fujifilm Europress (2003) in the portrait category.
Win first prize Zilveren Camera Holland international documentary category (2003).
The Fondazione Luchetta of Trieste nominated best press photographer (2004).
Exposed HIV-AIDS in the Age of globalization in Gothenburg and Faith in Chaos in Paris, Cologne, Mallorca, Amsterdam, Milan, Galicia and ARCO (2004).
Presents his work on AIDS entitled POSITHIV + in Barcelona, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Tokyo and Assumption (2005).
Rozenberg editorial published in the book POSITHIV + (2005).
In 2007 he won the second World Press Photo Award in the category of number of sports, with a story about a football league for amputees in Sierra Leone.
Maquieira Fernando was born in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) in 1966.
Lives and works in Madrid.
His first contact with the photograph has 15 years, when he began working as a trainee-assistant in the study of Fernando Gordillo, a photographer who belongs to the movement of the School of Madrid.
In 1997 starts to work as a freelance combining photography with graphic design.
He has made several solo exhibitions, among which, in 2007, Anima, in Fotoencuentros (Murcia) and in 2006 at La Casa de Velázquez (Madrid).
In 2005, on the Alhambra, the Palace of the Condes de Gabia (Granada), and at the eighth edition of the International Biennial of Street Sculpture (Tenerife).
In 2003-2004, Mexique anonyme, at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine (Brussels), in Zarautz, organized by the Photomuseum, and the Casa de Cultura de Las Rozas (Madrid).
In 2003, a showcase for San Pedro (Madrid).
He has participated in several group exhibitions, among which, in 2006, "Stock Luzdía" Anymus Gallery (Madrid) and "Poems photographed" Casa de América (Madrid).
He has published several books.
Antonio M.
Xoubanova born in Madrid in 1977.
Cursa tourism and leaves to study photography at art school 10 in Madrid.
Now part of the collective Blank Paper ( www.blankpaperimagen.com ) and works as a contributor to the newspaper El Mundo.
Has the Arts grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture at the College of Spain in Paris, ARCO'05 documentary photography prize, first prize of 18 railways of the Spanish Railway Foundation, the Santa Maria Foundation Scholarship Albarracín in Photography and Journalism Workshop, and a grant from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, among others.
He has published his work in Geo, The Weekly, Yo Dona, ARC Publications, Paris Aereoporto Magazine and Seven Leagues.
His images have been displayed in the window of St. Peter in the EFTI and the Centro Cultural Conde Duque in Madrid, among others.
Marta Soul was born in Madrid in 1973, where he lives and works.
After a hiatus in which he explores the design, creating and producing his own collection of glass objects, takes the picture working in various advertising campaigns (Terra, Ericsson, Ford).
He worked for three years for the Department of Photography at the University of Bellas Artes de Madrid.
Since 2001, he began to develop his most personal, delving into the interplay between image and reality: Sexus (2001) and domestic Aesthetics (2003).
The place of women in this dilemma, within the consumer society, is undoubtedly one of the themes in his work, first with his work Chance of Love (2005) and currently Wellhome (2006).
He has published in magazines such as Red, Fifty Easy, The Creator Studio, Vanity, Neo2, Fisheye and the most beautiful. He has won prizes in the Royal Photographic Society, Injuve, Purificación García and the Department of Community Arts Madrid.
His work has been exhibited in the Canal de Isabel II, Conde Duque Barracks, Circulo de Bellas Artes and Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, among others.
Paola de Grenet was born in Milan (Italy) in 1971.
He began his photographic career in London in 1999 after completing his studies in graphic design at Camberwell College of Arts (London, June 1999).
He has worked as editorial photographer in London and Spain for magazines such as The Sunday Times Magazine, Canary (Conde Nast Contract Publishing), New Scientist, Vanity. H, Living in the country, Elle, Line, Fisheye, Rolling Stones, The Weekly, Woman and the Magazine of La Vanguardia. His work has also been published in books such as BCN 24 hours (editorial Brabander), Barcelona 12 sensations (editorial Criteria) and the catalog of the exhibition held at the Museum of History City, Barcelona & Photography (editorial Lunwerg).
In 2003 he begins his personal project on the lives of transsexuals in Spain.
The project has been designed in the audiovisual Do not tell my mother, at the Palau Robert (Barcelona), published in the journal Fisheye. In 2005, a finalist in "Discoveries" of the international photography festival photoespaña with The waiting room project. Start your project on albinism and won the second prize in the Notodofotofest (La Fábrica, Madrid).
In the year 2006 is selected to exhibit in the contemporary art festival BAC!
06 (at the CCCB of Barcelona) and the festival Novas Ollada Miradas-06 in Galicia, with the project The Natural Order of Things.
Salvi Vivancos born in Alicante in 1977.
Her first serious contact with photography is through some courses for adults who go during their stay in England, between 1999 and 2001.
Since his return to Spain, working as a freelance photographer, doing all kinds of reports, especially for advertising.
In parallel, begin to approach photography in a more personal, and this approach arises Velo work, a story about the loss of his father's vision.
This is followed by two works in which the protagonists are children and the relationship with them.
District begins with an interest in social changes that are occurring around them (Murcia): immigration and urban overcrowding.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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