PhotoEspaña to Latin American lens surrenders – LaTercera (Record)

This year will be about 400 photographers and over half from Latin America. Under the motto See here, the PhotoEspaña festival, which starts on 3 June and runs until 30 August, promises to be a meeting place for the image produced in our latitudes, bringing together the work of leading artists such as Mexican Lola Alvarez Bravo, Brazilian Mario Cravo Neto, the Chilean Paz Errazuriz and Cuban Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, better known as Alberto Korda.

In its 18 years of existence, the event that set off circumscribed Madrid, 101 exhibitions this year will be deployed in the capital and in their Alcala de Henares, Alcobendas, Cuenca, Getafe, Lanzarote and Zaragoza and international, Cascais, Lisbon, Bogota, London, Panama, Paris and Sao Paulo national headquarters .

At launch, Yelo director Maria Garcia said that this issue meets the initial spirit of PhotoEspaña: to offer a different perspective to what is already known. It is not surprising that after the big names appear unpublished facets. This is the case of the Cuban Korda, although it is known worldwide for its iconic portrait of Che Guevara, made under the wing of his agency Studios Korda, created by the artist Luis Pierce in 1953, a large number of advertising campaigns female beauty that stands out. A label that reflected when it came to portraying the guerrilla who participated in the Castro revolution. Just this series of portraits of women are to be displayed from June 2 in the Cerralbo Museum in Madrid.

The show also the architectural look of the photographer and activist Tina Modotti and registration of indigenous areas of Mexico will be exhibited. A co-generation weapons and contemporary was Lola Alvarez Bravo, wife of the renowned Manuel Alvarez Bravo, considered the father of contemporary Mexican photography, who made his own contribution to documentary photography to record the Mexican daily life, as well as experimentation through the photomontage and the photomural. It was she who created a visual biography of Mexico in the first half of the twentieth century from its cultural and artistic areas to urban and rural areas.

The festival will also host the first retrospective of the Brazilian Mario Cravo Neto (1947-2009), who devoted himself to record the culture his native country through a language that mixed religion and eroticism, violence and drama, nature and culture. It was characterized by stage, in photos, rituals and mythologies that synthesize the cultural, ethnic and racial confluence of the Brazilian northeast.

Outside the big name, PhtoEspaña also occurs to younger photographers, through collective exhibitions as discoveries Awards 1998-2014, which brings together the winners in previous editions of the festival, as Matias Costa, Vanessa Winship, Fernando Brito and Nancy Newberry or Gamazo collection Anna, wife of financier Juan Abelló, who will show for the first time its collection of Latin American photography, considered one of the largest in the world with 160 works by 60 artists