The main characters in his photographs are the weak, the disowned and all of those who struggle on a daily basis to survive. This book brings together images of workers breaking up boats, abandoned refugees, amateur boxers, garbage collectors in dumps and members of armed gangs among other subjects. Since 2006 Javier Arcenillas has been working on an essay about violence in Central America. His photographs document pain, desperation, impotence and fear. His first works to gain recognition were Sicarios ("Hitmen") and Nota roja ("Red note"), both installments of his trilogy about death in El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, followed by Latidoame rica, its final part, the focus of which shifts to the tales of the victims of the indiscriminate violence prevalent in Honduran society. A number of these photographs have appeared in these countries' newspapers. The group of photographs included in this book goes a long way to define Arcenillas's work: striking images with a precise narrative discourse stir powerful emotions in the viewer.Shooting in black and white, making use of the close-up to introduce his scenes and playing with only partially focused subjects he arrives at his individual and feisty vision.
Since 1983, photographer Miguel Bergasa (born 1951) has made 27 trips to Latin America, undertaking an in-depth exploration of the various cultures of each country in which he chooses to work. This PHotoBolsillo volume introduces his work.
This new volume of the PHotoBolsillo series focuses on the Venezuelan artist Alexander Apostol through a monograph in which his most outstanding and relevant works are compiled. Throughout his artistic career, Alexander Apostol has explored about the masculinity, homosexuality and the prejudices about them in the Latin American context. Apostol focuses and reflects on the construction of identity and gender in Venezuela, a nation deeply marked by its political circumstances, and some of his works are concentrated on the iconography of the urban landscape across the country. The book also includes a documented text by Diana Lopez, director of the the Archivo Fotografia Urbana in Caracas.
Un nouveau livre de la collection PhotoBolsillo dédié au photographe de Madrid Luis de las Alas, auteur d'une oeuvre développée principalement grâce à des collaborations dans des journaux comme El Pais, El Mundo et des publications comme Forbes et Esquire. Biker, surfer, bohème, un rebelle illustré et un méchant élégant. Mais derrière l'image externe, il y a un homme curieux et réflexif. Un professionnel polyvalent et rigoureux, dont l'honnêteté, l'indépendance, la discrétion et la vision humaniste se reflètent d'une manière ou d'une autre, dans les sujets qu'il choisit de photographier.
Le photographe espagnol Alfredo Cáliz (né en 1968) est surtout connu pour ses portraits en mouvement de la vie contemporaine au Maroc, qui reflètent l'intégration et la diversité culturelle qui découle de la migration. Selon les propres mots de l'artiste: "Je ne suis plus un journaliste-photographe, je ne suis plus un artiste-photographe. Je suis simplement un photographe. Je suis entre les deux et je vais bien."
Ce volume de la série PHotoBolsillo présente le travail du photojournaliste espagnol contemporain Ricardo Cases (né en 1971). Son travail se distingue par l'utilisation de couleurs intenses, qu'il documente des activités traditionnelles dans l'Espagne rurale ou se moque doucement des particularités de la vie en ville.
José Ortiz Echagüe (1886 -1980) est un ingénieur militaire, pilote et photographe espagnol. Entre 1909 et 1916, muté au Maroc espagnol, il commence un travail de documentation photographique, qu'il continue par la suite en Espagne, travail qui porte aussi bien sur les paysages et les monuments que sur les êtres humains et leurs rituels. Il est resté fidèle toute sa vie à l'esthétique et aux techniques du pictorialisme, utilisant notamment la gomme bichromatée et le charbon.
Winner of the World Press Photo Award for Nature, Hungarian photographer Carlos Spottorno (born 1971) began his career as an art curator at an ad agency. This PHotoBolsillo volume celebrates his work as a professional photographer, including both his editorial and commercial documentary projects.
The collective began taking shape round about 2004 when a series of meetings were organized, with an open and diverse set of guidelines, in which a number of photographers exhibited their work, sharing a common vision on photography and creation. Shortly thereafter the members of the core group decided to make a joint effort to create an "unconventional" agency which would rely on no external bodies but rather be rigorously autonomous, creating a platform of its own. From that point onwards the collective has grown, proving that more than an agency NOPHOTO is an "attitude". This book brings together a series of photographs by its current members but also by those who were part of the collective at some point, before carrying on with their solo careers: Jorquera, Paco Go mez, Eva Sala, Juan Santos, Juan Valbuena, Carlos Sanva, Juan Milla s, Tanit Plana, MartaSoul, Mati as Costa, Jona s Bel, Rafael Trapiello, Carlos Luja n, Eduardo Nave and In aki Domingo.
Over the course of his life, Argentine photographer Tito Caula (1926-78) built an oeuvre of several thousand portraits, landscapes, film stills and more, in a variety of formats. This issue of PHotoBolsillo attests to the artist's interest in research, innovation and technology.
