Spanish Documental Photography: Homage

Fifty four snaps taken by Madrid-based Enrique Cano will be paying tribute to Spanish documental photography. Fotografos: la voluntad de contar is going to open doors at Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, October 30 to late January 2013, and showcases portraits of many of the main figures in terms of photographic art in the country: National Photography award winners Toni Catany, Joan Colom, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Ramon Masats, Carlos Perez Siquer and Rafael Sanz Lobato; several winners of the World Press Photo such as Manuel Hernandez de Leon, Cristina Garcia Rodero or Manuel Barriopedro, among other indispensable names.

Cano took two years to handpick the photographers that make up the generation of the most remarkable graphic professionals of Spain. Madrid, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca are the stages selected to capture their gestures and looks, from a position that is different from the one they usually take.

Miguel Gomez is the curator of this exhibition and one of his objectives is having the faced identified with the work, accompanying Cano’s images so we can recognize each creator. The approach printed by Enrique Cano in this showcase is not only about friendship and profession, but it’s a generational outlook. The subjects of his works have been witnesses and have perfectly reflected outstanding events, such as the different episodes of Spanish Transition, the failed coup d’état on February 23, snapshots of Madrid in the 1980s or the victories and setbacks of soccer in that country.

Espacio Fundacion Telefonica
Entry: c/ Fuencarral 3. Madrid
Hall Auditorio. 2nd floor

Source: Press release