Although scattered by the thousands, the needle in the haystack is still difficult to find. For a month and a half I explored the contemporary Spanish photography scene, but I never managed to see the iceberg, only the aurora borealis.

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He started out as an assistant in a commercial photo studio in 1997. In 2000, he became a press photographer for the local newspaper L'informatiu de Sants, printed at the time in black-and-white. He remembers the first time his work made the cover, in 2002, a picture of h...

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This golden spiral, based on the golden ratio, is a graphical representation of the Fibonacci sequence. The ratio, considered divine in the Renaissance, is found throughout nature in various pure and simple forms. The path it follows is a reference to an order I imposed upon ...

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My work relies on a examination and a highly literal application of sources of the prevailing views of 1930s documentary work, those according to which the photographer can explain society in all its complexity, representing the daily life of the worker, the “man in the street.” ...

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I met with Manel Esclusa (b. Vic, 1952) at his studio in the Eixample Esquerra neighborhood of Barcelona. He was leaving for Vic, where he says there’s more space. Almost everything was packed except for a few books and papers. Esclusa believes that his work is best represen...

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The different experiences during life shape the character of each person, almost everything that happens mark one way or another for the rest of your days. Each stage reflects an evolution of the previous one and this evolution makes you progress as a person and as a creator.

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The collective has lived through different steps with different members. We have always had between eight and five members, including some from the original group. We have also shifted our focus from the dissemination of photography to its creation. The collective was fou...

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Founded in 2005, NOPHOTO is a contemporary photography collective that aims to make UNCONVENTIONAL individual and collective projects viable. The collective is characterized by its open content, an interdisciplinary thread in its forms, the use of multiple supports such as web and ...

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I left for London to take a break from Barcelona and see the world. I wanted to be independent, to live life as I pleased, and start a career in a fascinating city like London. It was also a great opportunity to perfect my English. My early reports were done during internships in photo...

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As a little girl I dreamed of being an artist, a painter, I dreamed of inventing colors. When I finished school I started studying in painting, sculpture and drawing academies and there a fellow student insisted on my going with him to a photography academy: the Photocentro; I qui...

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