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PHotoEspaña Reports Increase in Attendance Breaking its Own Record |
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| Written by Cesar Ramirez |
| Monday, 27 July 2009 02:23 |
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PHotoEspaña has had two headquarters in Spain besides of Madrid. The city of Cuenca as venue of the Festival has received an exceptional exhibition and activity program called OpenPHoto, composed by proposals of cultural institutions and embassies of 8 countries: Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Colombia, United Kingdom, Portugal and Romania. The headquarters that have received OpenPHoto have been the Aula Cultural Universitaria, la Escuela de Arte Jose Maria Cruz Novillo, the Fundacion Antonio Perez, the Fundacion Antonio Saura (Casa Zavala) and Museo de Semana Santa. In turn, the city of Alcala de Henares has hosted the program Campus PHE Grand Masters Comunidad de Madrid, the workshops and master classes given by 8 photographers of international size, that have been celebrated in the Former Santa Maria la Rica Hospital during the month of June. PHotoEspaña has produced specifically for the Festival a total of 18 exhibitions: Mirante, by Mauro Restiffe; In the needles of these days, by Jindrich Styrsky; City Scene, by Zhao Liang; Photographs 1974-2008, by Patrick Faigenbaum; Descubrimientos PHE09; Horizonville, by Yann Gross; Resilience; Nocturne ... [in real time], by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, The best photography books of the year; Back home. Video Works, by Pedro Costa; The Crucial Years, by Dorothea Lange; Border of Africa, by Bartolome Ros; The Atlas Group. A project by Walid Raad [1989-2004]; Evidence, by Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel; The 70's. Photography and Everyday Life, and individual exhibitions of Ugo Mulas, Sara Ramo, Cristobal Hara and Mabel Palacin. As an accompaniment for all this exhibitions PHotoEspaña 2009 has published 7 books: PHE09 guide, Descubrimientos PHE guide, the official catalogue of PHE09, The everyday, as well as exhibition catalogues like The 70's. Photography and Everyday Life; Dorothea Lange. The Crucial Years, Gerhard Richter. Overpainted photographs and Bartolome Ros. Border of Africa. A Festival in expansion  In this edition, PHotoEspaña has initiated a new challenge,
the diffusion and international projection of the Festival through PHotoEspaña
International, a program through which the Festival has organized exhibitions
and professional programs in other countries and, from time to time, out of the
dates of the Festival. For the first time, PHotoEspaña has organized the viewing
of portfolios Descubrimientos PHE in Peru and Mexico with the support of the
AECID (Agencia Española de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo, the
Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation), the Cervantes
Institute, the Spanish Cultural Centre in Lima and the Spanish Cultural Centre
in Mexico City. This professional program has made possible for 339 Latin
American photographers to present their work to international professionals of
the photographic industry. Besides, 10 of them have made part of the exhibition
Resiliencia (Resilience) in the Cervantes Institute, that will subsequently
route through the different centres of the Cervantes Institute outside Spain.
Also, Portugal has repeated again as venue of the Festival and has opened last
29 May the program of exhibitions of PHE09 with two individual samples of
Cristobal Hara and Mabel Palacin in the Museu Coleccao Berardo of Lisbon.
This international projection of the Festival has reflected in the ssuccess among national and internationa press. PHotoEspaña 2009 has broken its record of accredited journalists. More than 800 national and international journalists have covered the Festival for medium from 20 countries. The Festival has registered more than 2.000 appearances in the press, radio, television and on the Internet. The Festival presence in international medium has increased a 15%. Success at the professional and general publics programmes call for entries PHotoEspaña has increased its offer in professional and general publics programmes and has created new projects that have become an international meeting point for photography professionals. The programme Descubrimientos PHE has been expanded in this edition of the Festival with the viewings carried out in Mexico City and Lima. Thus, the number of portfolios received has increased by 25%, adding a total of 1.146. The Aguila Complex of Comunidad de Madrid has hosted all the activities and expositions of the program Descubrimientos PHE Madrid, becoming a great centre for the emerging photography. There was the exhibition of Yann Gross, winner of the past edition of the Prize Descubrimientos PHE Epson, and the collective exposition with the work of the 70 finalists in the portfolios review in Madrid. Campus PHE Comunidad de Madrid has expanded their offering creating the program Campus PHE Edicion de Libros, a workshop for editorial projects in which they have participated 30 students of 9 countries who received, in the CA2M-Centro of Art Two of May, the advice of Chema Conesa, Fernando Gutierrez and Martin Parr. This activity has been united to Campus PHE Grand Masters, the photography workshops program and master classes that has had 110 students of 11 nationalities. The Former Santa Maria la Rica Hospital has received the classes given by Alessandra Sanguinetti, Patrick Faigenbaum, Stephen Shore, Roger Ballen, Neil Stewart, Stefan Ruiz, Jim Goldberg and Angel Marcos. The master classes offered in Alcala de Henares gathered more than 800 participants.
PHotoEspaña has expanded in 2009 the educational activities and those for the general public. In this edition it has developed along with the Banco Santander Foundation the educational program The 70. Photography and Everyday Life, that has introduced in the contemporary photography to more than 200 students between 15 and 18 years of 6 schools of Madrid. Along with la Fundacion Canal it has organized the contest The water of Madrid, that has received more than 1,250 photographs, and some of them have been exposed in the gardens of the Foundation. This space has also hosted workshops for children and young, having photographers like Rosa Muñoz, Ciuco Gutierrez and Laura Torrado, in which they have participated 180 children and youths between 6 and 15 years old. The Recorridos Camper have gathered in this edition more than 600 people that have participated in 27 guided visits and family workshops that have been celebrated during the month of June in the BBVA, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Teatro Fernan Gomez. Centro de Arte / Banco Santander Foundation, Casa de America, Museo de Colecciones ICO, Comunidad de Madrid / Sala Canal de Isabel II, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Fundacion Telefonica, Comunidad de Madrid / Sala Alcala 31, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid / The Aguila Complex, Matadero Madrid and Cervantes Institute. Finally, A Night for Photography gathered thousands of people in the center of Madrid who participated in the projections and activities organized on 19 June. The grand screen installed in Plaza de Santa Ana served as a shop window to show the work of grand masters of the photography, a projection carried out by the students of the Master PHotoEspaña in photography as well as the images obtained by the more than 1.250 people participating at the PHotoMaraton. Besides, the passers-by who enjoyed the Night in the Barrio de las Letras could be photographed in the sets of PHE-Home, an activity that take "the house to the street", as well as of the Nomad Projections that were projected in the buildings of the city centre. Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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