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Patrick Van der Elst, nacido el 18 de mayo de 1969, vive y trabaja en Bruselas, Bélgica. Es un hombre hecho a sí mismo que entró en el mundo de la fotografía por pasión y de una manera natural.
Su fuente de inagotable inspiración reside en sus encuentros, sus lecturas, su día a día y especialmente su experiencia como médico. Su trabajo encapsula bellezas quirúrgicas, enmarcadas con dulce sensualidad bañada en rostros poéticos.
Patrick Van der Elst no pretende centrar su trabajo en sus propias facetas o su historia personal. Utiliza objetos, modelos, juguetes, figuras y bebés de goma para compartir historias sencillas a través de un lenguaje personal, visto desde un ojo para el detalle que sólo puede impresionar a su publico.

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Unlike spontaneous and instantaneous photography, Patrick Van der Elst’s approach lies more on an intense reflection combined with long clinical sceneries that question our era. While constantly displaying the morbid innocence of plastic dolls, of young girls modestly naked, or young children with a melancholic eye, he approaches sex, the society of consumption, religion and the world of money in his own way.

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Patrick Van der Elst, born on 18 May 1969, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He’s a self-made man, and passionately entered the world of photography in a natural way.
His source of inexhaustible inspiration lies in his encounters, what he reads, his day-to-day and especially his experience as a doctor. His work encapsulates surgical beauties, framing them with sweet sensuality bathed in poetic visages.
Patrick Van der Elst doesn’t seek to focus his work on his own features or personal history. He uses objects, models, toys, figurines, and rubber babies to share straightforward stories with us through a personal language, mixed with an eye for detail that can only impress his audience.

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Josep Echaburu (Barcelona, 1967) en la actualidad reside y trabaja en Barcelona.

Seleccionado como uno de los diez finalistas en el prestigioso premio Oskar Barnack de Leica, 2010. Su trabajo “Centro de Vida” ha sido proyectado en el Festival de Fotografía “ Rencontres d’Arles”, 2010 y en el mes de la fotografía de Braço Da Prata (Lisboa), 2011.

Premiado y finalista en certámenes como el PX3 Prix de la photographie Paris 2011, el London International Creative Competition (LICC) 2011 y 2012, el 7days 7shows ( The United Photo Industries ) 2011 en Brooklyn, New York, los IPA (International Photography Awards, The Lucie Foundation) 2011, el certamen Artist Wanted 2011, el PX3 Prix de la photographie Paris 2012.

Algunas exposiciones seleccionadas:
Invitado a exponer su trabajo en el reconocido festival Getxophoto ( Getxo, Bilbao ) 2011 y en su reedición de Lima (Peru) 2013
” Real Sociedad Fotográfica de Madrid”, «Can Baste», «Pati Llimona», «Convent de Sant Agustí» y «Casa Golferichs-Centre Català Roca», etc.

Publicaciones seleccionadas:
FOTO MAGAZINE(España), FWAPHOTO(Inglaterra), ACTUPHOTO(Francia), FILE MAGAZINE(EE.UU), F-STOP MAGAZINE(EE.UU), PIEL DE FOTO(España), FOTO DNG(Argentina), GREY MAGAZINE(Grecia), WALL DONE MAGAZINE(Inglaterra), BLOW PHOTO MAGAZINE(Irlanda), OJO DE PEZ(España), LIGHT MAGAZINE(Bulgaria), etc.

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They look like normal people, but they are not. At all. They are heroes. They have been able to leave theirs behind: parents, siblings, children, home, the city or town where they were born, the corner where you got the first kiss, perhaps a love that waits impatiently on another continent a phone call to recover the voice of his/her beloved which embarcad with the sad eco of a locutorio.
They are people who have traveled around the world. Not everyone in the same way, certainly. Some, probably, for that brightness that are looming on the look they had to buy the ticket to the very death. A ticket, on many occasions is only one way.
And then they had the courage to get here, leaving behind everything that gives us the feeling of belonging a group in the folds of the last sheet that sheltered them before leaving. And now far from consoling to live in the memory of the feel and smell of that sheet they have made a cape. The cape of heroes.
They have had the courage and the courage to leave all that and live without that refreshing embrace that they used to have. That comforts you, that helps you overcome the bumps, gives you the encouragement to continue. Certainly they have to lie under those gestures that are mínimum but at the same time fills entirely.
I admit that it would be unable to live without those, do you?
Juan Cruz
Director de cine

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Josep Echaburu (Barcelona, 1967) currently lives and works in Barcelona.

Selected as one of ten finalists in the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack awards, 2010. His work «Life Center» has been exhibited at the Festival of Photography «Rencontres d’Arles», 2010 and on the month Photo of Braço Da Prata (Lisbon), 2011.

Awarded and finalist in contests like the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2011, London International Creative Competition (LICC) 2011 and 2012, 7 days 7 shows (The United Photo Industries) 2011 in Brooklyn, New York, IPA (International Photography Awards, The Lucie Foundation) 2011, the exhibition Artist Wanted 2011, the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2012.

Some selected exhibitions:
Invited to exhibit his work at the renowned festival Getxophoto (Getxo, Bilbao) 2011 and its reissue of Lima (Peru) 2013
” Real Sociedad Fotográfica de Madrid», «Can Baste», «Pati Llimona», «Convent de Sant Agustí» and «Casa Golferichs-Centre Català Roca», etc..

Selected publications:
PHOTO MAGAZINE (Spain), FWAPHOTO (England), ACTUPHOTO (France), FILE MAGAZINE (USA), F-STOP MAGAZINE (USA), PIEL DE FOTO( (Spain) FOTO DNG (Argentina), GREY MAGAZINE (Greece), WALL DONE MAGAZINE (England), BLOW PHOTO MAGAZINE (Ireland), OJO DE PEZ (Spain), LIGHT MAGAZINE (Bulgaria), etc.

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Nacida en Barcelona el 1988.
Graduada en diseño gráfico por la Escuela Pau Gargallo y diplomada en Máster de Fotografía y Diseño por la Universidad ELISAVA de Barcelona.

La joven artista Anne Roig ha elegido la fotografía como medio para transmitir su forma de ver el mundo. Su obra personal siempre enfocada al empeño por intentar comprender la dualidad del individuo, el querer descubrir más allá de lo que vemos o simplemente averiguar que esconde nuestra presencia.En definitiva, encajar los rompecabezas de la vida es el constante de su trayectoría.
Actualmente trabaja para diferentes marcas de moda, colabora con diversas revistas como Metal Magazine y desarrolla proyectos personales.Sus obras han sido expuestas en la Fundació VilaCasas de Barcelona, Studiostore y Galería Mitte, entre otras.

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Would we be able to count how many times we look without paying any attention?
Often we are left with the superficiality of things without wanting to be part of it. Watch or direct look is not the same as observing intently.
Observing is feeling, touching to get carried away by indescribable sensations and begin to question why everything.When we talk about fashion there are not only those last minute nerves or girls who are exposed to the public behind the curtain. They are people who share complicity between scenes, looks that are lost to nowhere. Trying to capture stories hidden behind each dress, wrapped their cherished privacy and silence which do not seek to pretend or being anyone but themselves.Each story has an end but in each of these images, each end is a new beginning.Observe .

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Born in Barcelona in 1988.
Graduated in Graphic Design from Escuela Pau Gargallo and has a Masters degree in Photography and Design by ELISAVA University of Barcelona.

The young artist Anne Roig has chosen photography to communicate her way of seeing the world. Her personal work has always focused to try to understand the duality of the individual, will to discover the beyond what we see or just find what is hidden behind our presence. In conclusion to fit to the puzzle of life is the constant of her trajectory.
She currently works for various fashion brands, collaborates with various magazines like Metal Magazine and develops personal projects Her works have been exhibited in Vilacasas Fundació Barcelona, Studiostore and Gallery Mitte, among others.

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Zita Vehil Riera, Barcelona, 1978
En el 2001 se diploma en diseño gráfico por la escuela BAU de Barcelona, habiendo cursado dos años de Artes y Humanidades en la UAB entre 1996 y 1998. Aunque trabaja en el campo de la publicidad como freelance, su objetivo siempre ha sido dedicarse al arte y concretamente, a la fotografía.

En el 2005 descubrió la Lomografía, una disciplina dentro de la fotografía (o fuera, depende de como se mire), de carácter más flexible, lúdico y popular, que podía ser una experiencia enriquecedora.

Desde su introducción a la cultura lomo, ha participado en exposiciones colectivas o individuales promocionadas por Lomography o por otras entidades, como BCN Photobloggers. Ha ganado concursos como el «Dianalogues nº1, Through a Woman’s lens», del que se editó un libro con el mismo nombre, y con el que pudo exponer en París.

Ahora mismo está en medio de un proyecto llamado «experiences». Utilizando técnicas manuales, como el tratamiento de negativos con diversos elementos corrosivos, practica una especie de química sencilla e imprevisible. El resultado final es una gran distorsión de la imagen, una deformación de los cuerpos físicos.

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.. or as traditional beauty undergoes a change by chance, an almost absolute destruction. The fragments are not breaking the image, but they give a smooth texture, acquiring specific characteristics under destructive agent to them. Romantic, decadent or industrial images; burned or bubbling liquid oily colors. A grey and functional sunken city in a psychedelic pool; modern architecture in decay.
These are my cities.

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Zita Vehil Riera, Barcelona, 1978
In 2001 she graduated from graphic design in BAU in Barcelona, having completed two years of Arts and Humanities at UAB between 1996 and 1998. Despite working in the advertising field as a freelancer, her goal has always been to pursue art and specifically, photography.

In 2005 she discovered Lomography, more flexible, playful and popular discipline in photography (or out of it, depending on how you look at ) character, which could be an enriching experience.

Since her introduction to the lomo culture, she has participated in group and solo exhibitions promoted by Lomography or other entities such as BCN Photobloggers. She has won competitions such as the «No.1 Dianalogues, Through a Woman’s lens», a book of the same name was released, and with which she could exhibit in Paris.

Right now she’s in the middle of a project called «experiences». Using manual techniques, such as treatment with various negative corrosive elements, practices a kind of simple and unpredictable chemistry.The final result is a large image distortion, distortion of physical bodies.

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Matteo Astolfi nació en Rimini en el año 1977, su casa está en Santarcangelo di Romagna donde residió hasta el 1997, año en que se mudó a Milán. Terminó sus estudios en el Politecnico di Milano licenciándose en Diseño Industrial en el 2003, trabajando desde entonces como diseñador gráfico y fotógrafo entre Milán y Barcelona.

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Most of the time the reality is manifested directly and explicitly without hesitations or filters. The photography reveals it in all it’s magnificence.
«Oculto» reflects an evoked, suggested reality. Traces of a step, hidden objects, implied situations, veiled and intimate landscapes…
Different characters and moments immersed in the same invisibility, away from the noise and mimicked silently in the reality.

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Matteo Astolfi was born in Rimini in 1977, his home is in Santarcangelo di Romagna where he resided until 1997, when he moved to Milan. He finished his studies at the Politecnico di Milano in Industrial Design graduating in 2003, practicing since then as a graphic designer and photographer from Milan to Barcelona.

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Paco Puentes Córdoba, 1972 Técnico Superior Fotografía Artística, EE.AA.OO. Mateo Inurria.
Trabaja en varios ámbitos de manera complementaria y ambivalente aportando cualidades, en principio inusitadas, a sus obras que arropa con un complejo aparato poético lleno de referentes. El fotógrafo ha realizado exposiciones individuales y colectivas en diferentes ciudades, entre ellas destacan ‘Pájaros sin Alas’, Galería Ignacio Barceló. Córdoba,La Seducción de la luz’, Sección paralela Bienal de Fotografía de Córdoba. Sala Aires. Córdoba y AAF Brussels. Galería Gaudí. Sus obras fueron publicadas en El Pais, El Mundo,NY Daily News entre otros y fueron premiadas con «Finalista 25º Concurso de Fotografía ‘CAMINOS DE HIERRO’» Madrid, «Finalista Concurso fotográfico Mundo Rural» Madrid, «XVII Concurso Nacional de Fotografía Ciudad de Córdoba» “Premio Mezquita 2007” tema Córdoba.

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Beside the technological element of the artistic development, «Incommunicados» of Paco Puentes is presented . In his series, Sevillian photographer is inspired by the materials related to the current communication, taking them out of context and supplementing them with collage to present a small-picture windows which lead us to think about the obsolescence of the material elements. In his pieces, the nostalgia of communication is extracted, in the search of a lost aura of the current image.

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Paco Puentes Córdoba, 1972 Técnico Superior Fotografía Artística, EE.AA.OO. Mateo Inurria.
He works in various fields bringing in complementary and ambivalent qualities, initially unusual, his works cover a complex poetic system full of references. He has realized individual and group exhibitions in different cities and among them ‘Pájaros sin Alas’, Galería Ignacio Barceló. Córdoba,La Seducción de la luz’, Sección paralela Bienal de Fotografía de Córdoba. Sala Aires. Córdoba and AAF Brussels. Galería Gaudí stand out. His works are published in El Pais, El Mundo,NY Daily News among others and he is awarded with «Finalista 25º Concurso de Fotografía ‘CAMINOS DE HIERRO’» Madrid, «Finalista Concurso fotográfico Mundo Rural» Madrid, «XVII Concurso Nacional de Fotografía Ciudad de Córdoba» “Premio Mezquita 2007” tema Córdoba etc.

He aquí un niño, sus ojos marcan la intimidad del intercambio y la distancia infranqueable del tiempo y del espacio (sin embargo, cada niño se abre a ella y le ofrece milagrosamente, una confesión muda e intemporal).
He aquí un paisaje, de cerca o de lejos, detalles simples y resonantes que vivimos a menudo, si miramos muy lentamente seguramente nos perderemos allí.

Angela nos hace de puente, nos presenta a esta gran gente y la majestuosidad de su pueblo, con una una profunda humildad.
Con su cámara, su mirada, nos abre a la poesía de las formas que se encuentran por casualidad.

Su instinto para las soledades que se hablan, para la correspondencia de elementos inesperados, nos enseña que siempre hay otra persona, otros, en otro lugar, con quien nos complementamos, nos mantiene en diálogos hasta entonces desapercibidos excepto para la mirada de Angela.

Jason Weiss
Escritor, crítico de Jazz
Profesor de literatura en la Universidad de Nueva York

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Nacida en 1958 en Valdelacalzada (Extremadura), creció en Francia, residiendo primero en el Gers y posteriormente en Hendaya, ciudad fronteriza que ha sido desde entonces su puerto de amarre.
Apasionada desde temprana edad por la fotografía, fue en 1988 cuando realmente se profesionalizó como fotógrafa; fecha de su partida a Argelia. Allí trabajó en el Proyecto de Investigación y Desarrollo Iherrir (Tassili Najjer) por petición de la UNESCO y, seguidamente, para el Instituto de Investigación Forestal (INRF) estudiando la fauna y flora de Djurdjura y a su vez para la Unidad de Investigaciones de Zonas Áridas (URZA).

Pronto Angela se hará reportera y, al mismo tiempo, redactora y fotógrafa de prensa. Siendo corresponsal de la Agencia France Presse, colabora con los periódicos El Wattan, L´Observateur, Le Monde Diplomatique y Libération. Cubre, entre 1990-91, los acontecimientos políticos argelinos, pero también los campos de refugiados del Frente Polisario (movimiento de liberación sub-sahariano).
De vuelta al País Vasco, en Hendaya, colabora con los diarios locales Sud Ouest, Egin, Egunkaria, Gara, Le jornal, Berria… todo ello sin renunciar a viajar, más bien todo lo contrario: Argelia, Marruecos, Irlanda, Méjico, Paraguay,Nicaragua,Peru, Afganistán…
Ella aprovecha sus reportajes (conflicto del Ulster, conflicto Tuareg, indios de Chiapas) para realizar trabajos personales, editando así un libro Regards d´Enfants (“Miradas de niños”, que cuenta, en su prólogo, con el notable escritor Edouard Manet), exponiendo, dicho trabajo fotográfico, en África del Norte, Europa y América Latina.

En 2004, funda la asociación Begiradak («Miradas», en lengua vasca), reagrupando a una veintena de fotógrafos aficionados así como profesionales. Más tarde se integra a Bomberos Socorro Internacional y Desarrollo, O.N.G. de solidaridad internacional ,de la cual es miembro activo actualmente.Esta organización tiene por objeto ayudar a reducir las desigualdades en el campo de la educación, formación y ayuda a obtener el acceso a las necesidades primarias: agua potable, alimentación, letrinas, salud etc.»

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The framed encounters by Angela take you through their multiple tracks. Here’s a crowd, solidarity in their belief that a better world is possible, for you also if you rush there, some obvious thing, photographing a crowd: where is the center? Where’s the accent? Where is the key gesture? Her portraits always reflect humanity to tenderness.

Here a child, his eyes mark the intimacy of sharing and unbridgeable distance of time and space (however, each child opens up to her and offers miraculously, a silent and timeless confession).

Here’s a landscape, near or far, simple and resonant detail that often live, if we look slowly we surely be lost there. Angela makes us a bridge, introduces us to these great people and the majesty of her people, with a deep humility.
With her camera, her eyes, she opens us to the poetry of the forms found by chance.

Her instinct for spoken solitude, for correspondence of unexpected elements, teaches us that there is always someone else, others elsewhere, with whom we complement keeps us in dialogue until then unnoticed except for the look of Angela.

Jason Weiss
Writer, Jazz critic
Professor of literature at the University of New York

Bio

Born in 1958 in Valdelacalzada (Extremadura), grew up in France, first lived in the Gers and later in Hendaye , the border city which has since been her home port.

Passionate from an early age for photography, she became professionalized as a photographer in 1988; date of departure to Algeria. There she worked in the Research Project and Iherrir Development (Tassili Najjer) by request of UNESCO, and then to the Forest Research Institute (INRF) studying the fauna and flora of Djurdjura and in turn to the Unit Investigations Drylands (URZA).

Angela soon became a reporter and, at the same time press photographer and writer. As a correspondent for Agence France Presse, collaborating with the newspapers El Wattan, L’Observateur, Libération and Le Monde Diplomatique. Covering, between 1990-91 Algerian political events, but also the refugee camps of the Polisario Front (movement of sub-Saharan liberation).

Back to the Basque Country, in Hendaye, she worked with local papers Sud Ouest, Egin, Egunkaria, Gara, wage Le, Berria … all without giving up traveling, quite the opposite: Algeria, Morocco, Ireland, Mexico, Paraguay , Nicaragua, Peru, Afghanistan …

She used her interviews (Ulster conflict, Tuareg conflict, Chiapas Indians) for her personal work and editing a book Regards d’Enfants («Eyes of Children», which has, in his preface, the noted writer Edouard Manet) exposing, said photographic work in North Africa, Europe and Latin America.

In 2004, she founded the association Begiradak («Perspectives» in Basque), which gathers twenty amateur and professional photographers. Later on she joins Firefighters International Relief and Development NGOs international solidarity, of which she is still an active member. This organization aims to help to reduce the inequalities in the field of education, training and support to get access to basic needs: water, food, latrines, health etc.

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Nacido en la ciudad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), en enero de 1975. Ha trabajado profesionalmente como artista plástico, fotógrafo, camarógrafo y productor de televisión.
De 2001 a 2007 vivió y trabajó en Barcelona y luego se trasladó a Dublín, donde continúa desarrollando sus proyectos personales (fotografía y pintura).
Ha expuesto sus obras en varias exposiciones individuales y colectivas en Berlín, Bruselas, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Dublín y Edimburgo. Ha trabajado con diversas compañías Irlandesas de teatro y artistas.

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ONLY ONE is an art project between documentary photography and fashion, which reflects the relationship between the individual self and our behavior as social beings, particularly in relation to how we dress.
Long since the clothes are ceased to be just the element of protection from the environment. Clothing formed and forms the part of our culture and how our culture evolved and changed.
One of the properties of the clothing and the fashion industry today is the ability to give us to communicate, to express who we are (or have you believe in). Clothing is one of the first things we use to communicate with our environment.
What happens when you can only choose one item of clothing? From this question ONLY ONE was born.

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Born in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina) in January 1975. He has worked professionally as visual artist, photographer, cameraman and television producer.
From 2001 to 2007 he lived and worked in Barcelona and then moved to Dublin where he continues to develop his personal projects (photography and painting).
He has exhibited his works in several solo and group shows in Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Dublin and Edinburgh. He has worked with several Irish
theatre companies and artists.

El proyecto muestra a un barbero de Barcelona, su vida diaria y a la vez la forma en la cual esta siendo participe de un movimiento global que es la reinvención de las barberías. Durante el proyecto pudieron convivir y ver las diferentes facetas, desde el afeitado de un cliente que asiste a la barbería desde hace ya mas de 30 años, hasta una sesión fotográfica de moda para publicidad.

Con el impulso a este tipo de proyectos espera que las barberías tengan difusión y todos regresemos a afeitarnos en la silla de piel, con la navaja bien afilada y una copa de whisky al terminar.

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Aldo Chacon, nació en México DF pero ha ya hace muchos años vive fuera de México. La curiosidad por proyectos creativos, el cine y la fotografía le surgió cuando estaba en la universidad y convivía con su hermano mayor que estudiaba cine.
El interés por las artes plásticas y la fotografía le llevó a tomar la decisión de dedicarse a esto profesionalmente. Comenzó en un pequeño estudio en su propia casa a crear obras con materiales reciclables y a experimentar con fotografía analógica y digital.
Crea imágenes y proyectos con los cuales la gente pueda sentirse identificada y a su vez generar un poco mas de armonía visual en el entorno. Está convencido de que si todo lo que hacemos fuera creado con imaginación, esfuerzo y dedicación viviríamos en un mundo mas creativo y lleno de espacios exquisitos que solo viven en la mente de algunos artistas.

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The «Barber Vicenç Moretó» is a photographic project that represents a space, but also an ideology and an era which was believed that was lost.

The project shows a barber in Barcelona, his daily life, yet the way in which being part of a global movement that is the reinvention of the barbershops. During the project one could live and see the different facets, from shaving a customer who attends the barber for over 30 years to a fashion shooting for advertising.

With the impulse of these projects, it’s expected that the barber shops have a diffusion and we all return to shave in that leather chair, with a sharp knife and a whisky at the end.

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Aldo Chacon, born in Mexico City but since many years has been living outside of Mexico. Curiosity about creative projects, film and photography emerge when he was in university and was living with his older brother who was studying cinema.

The interest in the visual arts and photography led him to make the decision to pursue this professionally. He started in a small home studio to create works with recyclable materials and experienced with analog and digital photography.

Create images and projects with which people can feel identified and in return generate a little more visual harmony in the environment. He believes in that if all we do is created with imagination, hard work and dedication we would live in a more creative world and full of exquisite spaces that exist only in the minds of some artists.

Escondida en una cárcel de roles la mujer ha perdido su poder social, su autoestima, la capacidad de decidir sobre su propia vida o sobre el mundo en el que está. Sin embargo, la vida depende de ella: Es la madre, es la reproductora de las semillas que se cultivan y es la responsable de la administración del hogar, entre otras muchas cosas. Y lo es desde que nuestra especie nació, aún más desde que se volvió sedentaria.

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Jordi Oliver comienza su andadura como fotógrafo a principios de los noventa retratando las duras condiciones sociales del Raval. En 1993, su trabajo como fotoperiodista en el Barrio Chino barcelonés le hace merecedor de la Beca Fotopres de la Fundación La Caixa lo que le permite diplomarse en el Máster de Fotoperiodismo que imparte el International Center of Photography de Nueva York. Desde entonces, su carrera se ha encaminado hacia una fotografía de denuncia social.

Sus trabajos fotográficos se publican con asiduidad en Yo Dona, Babelia, La Vanguardia, editorial Planeta o Icaria y ha sido reconocido con galardones como el Premio tahiti y sus letras (2009 al mejor reportaje de viajes publicado), los festivales publicitarios de Cannes y San Sebastián, el premio Fnac – El País, el premio Laus en Gráfica Publicitaria del Teatro Liceu y otros tantos.

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Whoever loses the memory of his roots, loses focus and with it the ability to remain the actor of his own life. For thousands of years women have lived under the patriarchal authority and its daily commandments. Caught in the lattice of her own family, society or creed, women lowered their self-esteem and undermined their power to decide over their own life or the world around them, leading them to even consider themselves as second class citizens.
Trapped in a prison of roles, women have come to reduce their social power, self-esteem, the ability of decision over their own life or over the world they live in. However, life depends on them: they are the Mother, the hand that plants the seeds, in charge of the household management, among many other things – since our species is born, and even more since we became sedentary.
During five years Jordi Oliver has traveled the world photographing these women, in Africa, India, Romania, Tahiti… This project is a tribute to women and their daily struggle for their rights

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Jordi Oliver began his career as a photographer in the early nineties portraying the harsh social conditions of the Raval (Barcelona, Spain). In 1993, his work as a photojournalist in Barcelona’s “Chinatown” entitles him to the Fotopres Scholarship of Foundación La Caixa, allowing him graduate in the Master of Photojournalism of the International Center of Photography in New York. Since then, his career has been centered on social criticism Photography.

His photographic work is regularly published in Yo Dona, Babelia, La Vanguardia, Planeta or Icaria Publishing, and has been recognized with awards such as the Prix Tahiti (2009 to the best travel report), the Cannes and San Sebastian advertising festivals, the Fnac – El Pais award, Laus award for Graphic Advertising for Liceu Theatre, among many others.