Angélica Arbulú (Mexico City, Mexico, 1973) seeks to capture the essence of the mundane and make the ordinary seem unique and the everyday look beautiful and exotic. Photography has been her passion since an early age. Angélica began studying photography in 1990 at the Centro de Artes Visuales (CEV) in Madrid. She is primarily self-taught but has taken workshops with Chien-Chi Chang (Magnum), Ron Haviv (VII) and Tito Herrera (STUDIO at Getty Images). She was fortunate to be mentored by the late Tim Hetherington (Magnum), winner of the World Press Photo of the Year award.
4. John Santos
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The work of João Santos (Porto, Portugal) is present in numerous private and institutional collections in Portugal, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Greece, England, Dubai, India and the United States. He received the Abel Manta Painting Prize in 2015. His work subtly explores irony as well as paradoxes of the human condition in contemporary society such as tension, fame, desire, happiness, disappointment or success. He attempts to deconstruct through a clean and rigorous language, with a strong visual impact, possible limits of the graphic power of painting.
5. Jose Maria Mellado
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José María Mellado (Almería, Spain, 1966) has established himself as one of the most prominent photographers in Spain and his landscapes, the result of a tireless and personal search for beauty in the apparently vulgar, dull or decadent, enjoy great international recognition. He has participated in important fairs such as ArtBasel, Art Brussels, Art Cologne, Art Karlsruhe, Photo Miami, Pulse, SCOPE, ArteLisboa or ARCO. His work has been awarded on more than a hundred occasions and his works appear in important collections and museums, highlighting the Permanent Collection of the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, Chazen Museum of Art (Wisconsin, USA), Contemporary Art Collection of the Community of Madrid, Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art, among others.
6. Andres Galeano
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Andrés Galeano (Mataró, Spain, 1980) graduated in Philosophy from the UB in Barcelona (2003), in Photography from the FFS Stuttgart (2006, Germany) and in Free Art from the KHB Berlin (2012). His work is interdisciplinary and covers media such as photography, video and performance. His projects include Unknown Photographers , which explores the desire of the photo to transcend the instant through the analogue photo album; Afotos , which investigates the concept of non-photo; Google In View , which investigates the Google Street View device and its pretensions of divine omniscience (Godgle). He has participated in numerous performance festivals and exhibitions in Europe, Canada, Latin America and the USA.
7. Gisele Freund
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Gisèle Freund (Berlin, Germany, 1908 - 2000) was a French photographer born in Germany, author of important texts on photography. Her photographic work began with photojournalism but also featured her portraits of famous people such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Colette, among others. He received various awards throughout his career and in 1978 he received the culture prize from the German photography association and in 1980 the Grand Prix des Arts from the French Ministry of Culture.
8. Maria Maria Acha-Kutscher
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María María Acha-Kutscher (Lima, Peru, 1968) Acha-Kutscher is a visual artist and co-director with Tomás Ruiz-Rivas of the experimental art project Antimuseo. The main focus of Acha-Kutscher's work is women. Their history, the struggles for emancipation and equality, and the cultural construction of femininity. Acha-Kutscher organizes her work in long-term projects, and for each one she develops a unique language and methodology. She has exhibited individually in cities such as Lima, Haifa, Mexico City and Sarajevo. Most recently, the exhibition of her project Womankind in La Virreina Centro de la Imagen de Barcelona was celebrated by the press and the public. She received the Prize for the Creation of Contemporary Art from the Madrid City Council in 2017 and the 2014 Photography Biennial in Mexico.
9. Carlos Perez Siquier
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Carlos Pérez Siquier (Almería, Spain, 1930-2021) is a photographer considered one of the pioneers of the photographic avant-garde in our country. His interest in anthropology and landscapes led him to portray tourism on the coasts of Poniente and Cabo de Gata-Níjar from the 1970s to the mid-1990s. His works can be found in institutions such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Telefónica and La Caixa foundations or Foto Colectania and during his career he was awarded the National Photography Prize in 2003, the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Prize for Plastic Arts in 2005, the Bartolomé Ros Prize in 2013 and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 2018.
10. Ana Torralva
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Ana Torralva (Cadiz, Spain, 1957) has a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. She currently teaches photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca. Ana Torralva is an Andalusian photographer considered one of the best portrait photographers in Spain. Flamenco, and more specifically the Cante de las Minas Festival in Murcia, has become her central work, which she has exhibited almost all over the world. Portraiture has given her the greatest artistic and professional recognition. She has published portraits of a multitude of writers, musicians and people linked to the entertainment industry in general and specialized media. She has been in charge of the Portrait Gallery of the Magistrates of the Constitutional Court in Madrid.
11. Juan Uslé
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Juan Uslé (Cantabria, Spain, 1954) is one of the most internationally renowned Spanish artists, widely known for his abstract paintings. In addition to his large-format paintings, characterized by their combination of gesture and geometry, he is also a committed photographer whose lens offers an intimate and close view of the universe that surrounds him. In 2002, he received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, a national arts award given by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He works both in New York City and in Saro in Cantabria.
12. Jesus Chamizo
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Jesús Chamizo (Madrid, Spain, 1961) has spent years focusing his most personal work on the architectural landscape. Chamizo has found other forms of expression and, above all, of showing architecture through images based on emotions, opening the mind to new spaces that sometimes move in a different dimension than usual. Throughout his career he has participated in various individual and collective exhibitions, obtaining numerous national and international awards. Sol, Cannes, Lux, Epica, New York Festival, ND, FAPA, TIFA, Px3, MIFA, Pano Awards, BIFA, IPA…
