I was born among the woods and fields of Sologne, not far from a village with a population of a thousand, Langon. It was there that my imagination developed for 17 years. As a child, my greatest joy was to watch the arrival of the bookmobile in the courtyard of our school. ...

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The Galería Spectrum Sotos is Zaragoza opened on March 23, 1977, and has specialized in photography from the beginning. It is currently the oldest photo gallery in Spain.

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La Casa de Velázquez is both a center for artistic creation and a center for research. This makes it unique among the five foreign French schools (“Écoles”) presided over by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research: the École française d’Athènes, the École française de Rome...

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Training Photographers in Spain: Universitat Politècnica de València
The portfolio is a selection by Pep Benlloch of emerging talent from the Master in Photography at the Universitat Politècnica de València: Jaume Albert Martí, Pablo Martínez Muñiz and Vicente Tirado Olmo.

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Every art collection reveals a fragment of history and the sketch of a biography. Whether the collection is public or private, it is a product of various criteria, tastes, market trends, chance, politics and culture. The Universidad de Salamanca holds a collection full of photogra...

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This exhibition is devoted to the history of amateur, proletarian documentary photography, a movement that dates back to March 1926 when the German communist magazine AIZ (Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung) called on amateur photographers to send in their contributions. It was s...

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SCAN is a photography festival held in the fall. It was founded in 2007 by the city of Tarragona. After the second edition in 2008 and the financial crisis, regional and national funding evaporated almost entirely, so the festival was turned into a biennial under the same direction of ...

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The CIFB opened in October 1978, following the model of New York’s ICP. It was an advanced photography school with darkrooms, studios and classrooms, a library, a film theater, an exhibition space and a bar. It was directed by Albert Guspi (1943-1985), former photo-reporter i...

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Joaquim Gomis i Serdañons (Barcelona, 1902-1991) was a man of many talents: promoter of the arts, businessman, art collector, photographer and the first president of the Fundació Joan Miró. For over five decades his photographic output was prodigious and had close links to t...

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Memory does not fall under the study of history. Whoever remembers is dealing with a selective, random, emotional and only somewhat factual memory. Only certain memories resurface, while others have disappeared without a trace. The act of memory brings back to life what we have lo...

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