Leopoldo Pomés, Spanish National Photography Prize 2018

Leopoldo Pomés, born in Barcelona in 1931, he acquired his first camera in 1946, aged 15 and only twenty-four years old, he was presenting his first exhibition at the disappeared Galerías Layetanas in Barcelona. In 1961 he created, together with Karin Leiz, Pomés Studios and began to dedicate himself to film and advertising.

His international break would be in 1965 when he was awarded at the Cannes Advertising Film Festival and six years later he won the Golden Lion of advertising cinema in Venice. In 1982 he participated in a celebrated exhibition, together with Catalá-Roca, Xavier Miserachs and Oriol Maspons. In 1995 he exhibited his series Toros, at ARCO and at the Andalusian Center of Photography. In 1997 a great retrospective of his work was made at the Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona.

Illustrator of numerous books, such as Las ventanas, by RM Rilke (1957) and Gaudí, architecture of anticipation (1970), and has worked on films such as Ensalada Baudelaire (1978), Barcelona, open city (1988), Josep Pla, traveler ( 1991) and Barcelona, a passion (1992).

In recent years, he once again exhibited his photographs in theaters such as the Palau de la Virreina (1997), the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (2001) and the Galería Michael Hoppen (2010). In 2012, the Foto-Colectania Foundation exhibited its photographs taken in Barcelona in 1967. The exhibition 'Leopoldo Pomés. Flashback' it was presented in 2015 on the Canal de Isabel II in Madrid.

Leopoldo Pomés is best known for his professional career in the field of advertising and visual communication, but in 2006 he left this activity to devote himself fully to his photographic work.