The 16th edition of the New Talent Fnac Photography Award has already a winner. Guillermo Rodríguez (Madrid, 1981) has been awarded the prize for his series 'Notas', delivered in Fnac Callao, Madrid.'Notas' is a visual game between two cities: Mexico DF - where the author lived a season - and Madrid, his hometown. In the words of the jury: This work has great control of light, remarkable handling of color, is full of contrasts, which maintain a high level throughout his speech.
The images will be displayed in several Fnac stores for a year and the photographer will receive a cash prize of 3,000 euros.
The Jury, formed by Jokin Aspuru, director of the Getxophoto Festival; Blanca Berlin, director of the Blanca Berlin Gallery and Joan Alvado , a photograph winner of the New Talent in 2016, has selected this series - among the more than 300 presented to the award in this edition - because it is a work "with a solid body, very completed, which maintains a high level throughout his speech. "
'Notas' is a visual game between two cities, Mexico DF - where the author lived a season - and Madrid, his hometown. In the words of the Jury, "Guillermo Rodríguez shows a very personal vision of two very different cities.Through intelligent handling of lights and shadows, color and contrasts, the author isolates the superfluous elements and focus on very determined elements which he wants to remark. "He also highlighted the presented photographs which demonstrate that the author "has an office, knows the codes, sometimes referring to classic authors such as Paul Graham or Saul Leiter."
