PHotoEspaña

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PHotoEspaña
PHotoEspaña
General information
place Madrid
genre photography
organizer Claude Bussac
Period 1998 – today
Website http://www.phe.es/
Visitor numbers
2008 approx. 660,000
2013 approx. 600,000
2014 approx. 718,000

PHotoEspaña is an international festival of photography and visual arts, which every summer in Madrid taking place.

history

The festival was launched in 1998 and has grown in importance over the years. Francis Hodgson of the Financial Times wrote in 2014 that the PHotoEspaña gives all photo festivals around the world a standard to strive for.

In 2013, the festival was awarded the gold medal for merits to the fine arts by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports .

The 20th anniversary will be celebrated in 2018. The festival will take place from June 6th to August 26th, 2018.

places

The PHotoEspaña exhibitions are spread over the entire urban area of Madrid .

PHotoEspaña is scattered all over the Spanish capital. The exhibition venues in Madrid include:

The heart of the PHotoEspaña lies along the Paseo de la Castellana , the city's main artery. There were also exhibitions in Toledo , Aranjuez , Paris , Lisbon and Cuenca .

Prices

At the PHotoEspaña, various prizes are awarded every year for the most outstanding publications of the year as well as for the professional career of national and international photographers.

  • PHotoEspaña : The award recognizes the professional career of a personality in the field of photography (national or international). Previous winners: Bernard Plossu, Alberto García-Alix, Graciela Iturbide , Martin Parr , Robert Frank , Hiroshi Sugimoto , William Klein , William Eggleston , Helena Almeida , Nan Goldin , Duane Michals , Chema Madoz , Luis González Palma, Josef Koudelka
  • Bartolomé Ros : The award is given for the best Spanish professional career in photography in memory of Bartolomé Ros. Previous winners: Carlos Pérez Siquier, Chema Madoz, Chema Conesa, Isabel Muñoz, Ricard Terré, Marta Gili, Javier Vallhonrat, Joan Fontcuberta , Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Ramón Masats, Cristina García Rodero, Publio López Mondéjar
  • Descubrimientos PHE : The award is given to the author of the best project presented in the Portfolio Views organized by PHotoEspaña. Previous winners: Nancy Newberry, Yaakov Israel, Fernando Brito, Vanessa Winship, Alejandra Laviada, Yann Gross, Harri Palviranta, Stanislas Guigui, Vesselina Nikolaeva, Comenius Röthlisberger, Pedro Álvarez, Tanit Plana, Sophie Dubosc, Juan de la Cruz Megías, Paula Luttringer , Matías Costa
  • PHE al Mejor Libro de Fotografía del año : It honors the best publication of national and international photography that appeared last year as well as the most outstanding publisher . Previous winners in the national category: Urbes Mutantes 1941-2012. Latin American photography by RM / Toluca Éditions and The Little Black Jacket , published by Steidl Verlag in the international category. The Outstanding Editor of the Year award went to Hatje Cantz Verlag .
  • Festival Off : A jury of experts selects the gallery that has shown the best exhibition of the Festival Off. Last winner: Galerie Max Estrella for the exhibition Humanæ by Angélica Dass.
  • PHotoEspaña OjodePez de Valores Humanos : PHotoEspaña and the magazine OjodePez distinguish a documentary photographic work that emphasizes the values ​​of solidarity, ethics, justice or effort. The previous winner was Manuel Zamora for his Aparkados los sueños series .
  • del Público : Every year visitors to the festival choose their favorite exhibition.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Marot: Snippets of a scavenger hunt. WeltN24 GmbH , July 4, 2009, accessed December 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ PHotoEspaña exceeds 600,000 visitors in its XVI Photography and Visual Arts Festival. ArtDaily, accessed December 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ PHotoEspaña 2014 attracts 718,000 visitors to an edition dedicated entirely to the visual arts in Spain. ArtDaily, accessed December 29, 2017 .
  4. ^ Francis Hodgson: PhotoEspaña: the gaze turns inwards. Financial Times , June 27, 2014, accessed December 29, 2017 .
  5. ^ Karl Lagerfeld: The Little Black Jacket. Steidl, accessed December 29, 2017 .

Coordinates: 40 ° 28 ′ 49.6 "  N , 3 ° 41 ′ 13.1"  W.