Guest headquarters to PHotoESPAÑA 2018

PHotoESPAÑA 2018 will present from June 6 to August 26 90 exhibitions with works by 530 artists and a program of 21 professional and public activities that take place in 80 venues.

In celebration of its 20 years of life, PHotoESPAÑA has invited the recent National Prize of Photography Cristina de Middel to present a "carte blanche" in which the photographer has proposed five exhibitions.

In addition the main Spanish and international cultural institutions have wanted to join a celebration in an edition that also celebrates the tenth anniversary of Trasatlántica and the birth of Transeurope, Forum of Photography and Visual Arts of Europe.

In the celebration of its twentieth anniversary, a total of 10 exhibitions will be part of the invited headquarters in Madrid.


Mírame España for Morgana Vargas Llosa, David Tortora and Jaime Travezán. ABC SERRANO.

Mírame España is a project carried out for Accenture in Spain by the prestigious photographers Morgana Vargas Llosa, David Tortora and Jaime Travezán who reflect the reality of Spain today under their artistic gaze. Thanks to these images we can develop an account of the evolution of our country in recent decades, showing our plurality and human wealth through the stories of the 41 protagonists of this work. Anonymous people who with their effort have modernized and improved their parents' businesses, have evolved and adapted to the digital economy with their innovation and entrepreneurship, which have made their passion for art or culture an engine of change in our country or have chosen Spain as their "promised land". This project is a tribute to all of us and our contributions, more or less anonymous, that today are reflected through the protagonists of this work. Because any of us could appear with a history of change, of overcoming or of transformation in this country, Spain, a country "truly human".

Miguel Ángel García. Scaffolding 1, 2016. Guest headquarters to PHotoESPAÑA 2018. Photograph © Miguel Ángel García

Paisaje inacabado by Miguel Ángel Garcia. B THE TRAVEL BRAND EXPERIENCE.

Are there still sites to explore? Is there a place to discover in this globalized world? Miguel Ángel García, an explorer of the present, has embarked on a journey through urban landscapes (spaces that at first sight seem more homogeneous and interchangeable) to make visible the invisible of those cities. This exhibition takes us to India, to very distant urban spaces differentiated from Europeans, but in which we can see what could be called "trans-city": the beat of urban life that spreads throughout the planet, generating the time similarities and differences. The exhibition is divided into four sections: "Through Time", "From Idea to Form", "From Form to Idea" and "Containers of a Flowing Space". Images in which India is built. The trans-citizen tracking of Miguel Ángel García is one of the deepest photographic records of this perennially mutated world.

Al borde del aeropuerto by Antonio Martín. GLORIA FUERTES CULTURAL CENTER.

The exhibition "Al borde del aeropuerto" consists of a selection of thirty photographs, in which Antonio Martín portrays the residents of the neighborhood bordering the Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas airport. Antonio Martín tells us the story of an instant through his protagonists, united by an almost sacred link, a red cushion or an old leather pad, on top of which he captures these women seeking to transmit complicities and sensations.

Maria Svarbova. Jump 4 (6), 2017. Guest headquarters to PHotoESPAÑA 2018. Photograph © Maria Svarbova

Piscina by Maria Svarbova. DELPOZO.

Piscina is a project underway that Svarbova started in 2014 motivated by the search for suggestive locations and its fascination with public swimming pools: its sterile and geometric beauty generates the tone of these photographs. Almost all the photographed pools were built in the Soviet era in several locations in Slovakia, the author's country of origin. The figures appear in movement, but without an air of enjoyment and play. The colors twinkle gently in a dreamlike atmosphere and the swimmers, frozen in the composition, appear as aseptic and cold as the tiles in the pools. Despite the retro air of the scenarios, the images evoke a certain sense of a parallel future, like a fantastic broken utopia. There is no emotion or individuality. The artificial detachment created by Svarbova's vision allows a unique visual pleasure, unattainable in reality.

Guest headquarters to PHotoESPAÑA 2018. Photograph © Harald Hauswald

Alltag (Everyday Life) by Harald Hauswald. GOETHE INSTITUT.

Exhibition that brings together a selection of photographs by Harald Hauswald, founder of the German agency Ostkreuz and well known for his black and white images of the German Democratic Republic of the 80s. The images in this series reflect the daily life of East Berlin's the 70s.

From the exhibition Dummy Books IED. Guest headquarters to PHotoESPAÑA 2018. Image courtesy of IED

Dummy Books by the photography students of the European Institute Di Design. EUROPEAN INSTITUTE DI DESIGN.

A sample of the best projects of the photography students of the European Institute Di Design. Curated by a team of students and their international teachers, this exhibition gives a vision of contemporary creation in media such as photography, performance, video, photobook and installation.

Guest headquarters to PHotoESPAÑA 2018. Photograph © Bego Anton

The earth is only a little dust under our feet by Bego Anton. MINI HUB.

The winner of the PHotoESPAÑA 2017 Revelation Award recreates in The earth is only a little dust under our feet the world of the magical beings of trolls, elves and fairies that has a great presence in the Icelandic imaginary.

Guest headquarters to PHotoESPAÑA 2018. Photograph © Andoni Canela

Instantes de Biodiversidad. Una mirada a nuestra naturaleza. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

This exhibition shows the importance of enjoying healthy ecosystems for life on the planet. The images highlight the importance of conserving our biodiversity, which is what sustains the basic needs of society. The Fundación Biodiversidad del Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente and PHotoESPAÑA present this exhibition to commemorate the twenty years of the Fundación Biodiversidad and to highlight the need to take care of our environment. A project that proposes the recognition and reflection on the importance of life on Earth.

Jean Marie del Moral. NEW YORK, 1985. Guest headquarters to PHotoESPAÑA 2018. Photograph © Jean Marie del Moral

Fotografías 1972/2017 by Jean Marie del Moral. ONE SHOT HOTELS.

Jean Marie del Moral moves in the territory of naturalness: an aesthetic meticulously worked but never contrived; that of surprises discovered in familiar objects and situations. His work is the search for beauty and meaning, the pure and spontaneous desire to capture life in its rich complexity, with its daily details, unexpected but significant, full of images and unpredictable people. This retrospective traces forty-five years of an artistic career marked by curiosity and heterogeneity. Del Moral has built a work that has touched all genres and has taken shape in more than fifty books. A wealth and a variety that are a direct result of the wealth and variety of his life.

Angel Sanz Abad, Retrato III, 1993. Guest headquarters to PHotoESPAÑA 2018. Photograph © Angel Sanz Abad

Colectivo-28. Cambio y modernidad by the partners of the Real Sociedad Fotográfica. REAL SOCIEDAD FOTOGRÁFICA.

Since its foundation, the Real Sociedad Fotográfica has been a meeting and learning place for many great names in the history of photography in our country. Until the appearance of schools, faculties and other teaching spaces, many partners took advantage of the activities of the institution to create groups in which exchanges of experiences took place. In response to this legacy of the School of Madrid, at the beginning of the eighties, Colectivo-28 emerged, formed by fourteen members of the Real Sociedad Fotográfica who, with an eye on contemporary European photography, wanted to give a new look and feel. modern to the Spanish photographic tradition. Although his proposal was ephemeral, it generated a movement with a genuine and original proposal whose echoes still endure.