PHotoEspaña

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PHotoEspaña, the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts of Madrid, is a Spanish photography festival based in Madrid, founded in 1998. It is supported by private companies and public institutions, and its program presents work by Spanish and international photographers. The festival includes an awards programme with several categories.

History

PHotoEspaña, or International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts of Madrid, was founded in 1998.{{Cite news |last=Andreasson |first=Karin |date=2016-07-26 |title=Photo España review – female gaze falls on the Beatles, Bauhaus and Bacall |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jul/26/photo-espana-review-beatles-bauhaus-juana-biarnes-lucia-moholy-louise-dahl-wolfe |access-date=2024-06-04 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |last=O'Hagan |first=Sean |date=2013-06-14 |title=PhotoEspaña 2013: the 1970s feminist avant garde |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jun/14/photoespana-seventies-feminist-avant-garde |access-date=2024-06-04 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |title=PhotoEspaña's impressive coverage |url=https://www.ft.com/content/cecba6ee-7a60-11df-9cd7-00144feabdc0 |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=www.ft.com}}{{Cite web |title=Cristóbal Hara/Mabel Palacín, PHotoEspaña 2009, Lisbon |url=https://www.ft.com/content/3c9cee12-59c9-11de-b687-00144feabdc0 |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=www.ft.com}}

Description

PHotoEspaña is the largest photography event in Europe.{{cite web |title=Home|website=LOEWE Foundation |url=https://www.loewe.com/usa/en/stories-loewe-foundation/loewe-foundation.html |access-date=7 October 2024}}

Each edition of PHotoEspaña is dedicated to a specific theme, and the programme is divided into the Official Section, which includes museums, institutions and large exhibition centres; and the Festival Off, which includes art galleries and other venues.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Some of the institutions that have taken part in hosting the festival include: Casa de América, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Círculo de Bellas Artes, and the Prado Museum.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

The festival is supported by private companies and public institutions such as the Ministry of Culture and the regional and municipal governments of Madrid. It is organized by La Fábrica, a cultural management entity.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Since 2011 the Loewe Foundation has partnered with PHotoEspaña, in most years showcasing the work of a well-known photographer. In 2021 (digitally in 2020; physical exhibition postponed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic) the foundation presented a photographic exhibition, Divine: an icon of queer culture.{{cite web |title=Some of the images that make up the exhibition 'Divine' of... |website=Getty Images |date=22 June 2021 |url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/some-of-the-images-that-make-up-the-exhibition-divine-of-news-photo/1319462180 |access-date=7 October 2024}} which was held at CASA LOEWE in Madrid, and honoured queer icon Harris Glenn Milstead, better known by his stage name, Divine.{{cite web |title=Divine: an icon of queer culture |website=LOEWE |date= |url=https://www.loewe.com/usa/en/stories-projects/divine-phe.html |access-date=7 October 2024}}{{cite web |last=Hess |first=Liam |title=Filthy and Flamboyant, This '70s Drag Icon Stars in Loewe's Pride Collection |website=Vogue |date=23 June 2020 |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/loewe-pride-collection-divine-exhibition-greg-gorman |access-date=7 October 2024}} Featured photographers have included George Platt Lynes, Ron Galella, Tina Modotti, Peter Hujar, and David Wojnarowicz.

Francis Hodgson, writing in the Financial Times in 2014, said "PHotoEspaña gives every photography festival in the world a standard to aim for."{{cite news | url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/08b79b74-f316-11e3-a3f8-00144feabdc0.html#axzz39z7JWKnv | date = 27 June 2014 | accessdate = 10 August 2014 | first = Francis | last = Hodgson | newspaper = Financial Times | title = PhotoEspaña: the gaze turns inwards}}

Awards

=Discovery Award=

The PhotoEspaña Discovery Award for best portfolio (Premio PHotoEspaña Descubrimientos al mejor portfolio) is an award that has been given since 1998. It is open to any photographer who has attended one of PhotoEspaña's portfolio reviews, which are held in Madrid, Caracas and São Paulo.{{cite journal | author = | year = 2014 | title = PhotoEspaña Discovery Award | periodical = British Journal of Photography | volume = 161 | issue = 7826 | page = 7 | publisher = Apptitude Media}} The winner receives an exhibition in the next edition of Photoespaña.

2007: Battered by Harri Pälviranta{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
2014: Moises by Mariela Sancari; the judges were Greg Hobson, Raphaelle Stopin, and Christin Ann Bertrand.
2015: Parallel Crisis by Yannis Karpouzis. The judges were Lorenza Bravetta, Gilles Favier and Markus Hartmann.{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}}
2016: Edited monument by Andres Duran{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
2019: Investigation of Love by Lilia Luganskaia{{Cite web |date=2019-06-13 |title=PHotoESPAÑA Awards 2019 winners |url=https://www.phe.es/2019/06/13/photoespana-awards-2019-winners/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=PHotoEspaña|language=es}}

=Best Photography Book, international category=

2010: Atlas Monographs by Max Pam. Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2009. With the writer Stephen Muecke.
2014: Party. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Cristina de Middel. Madrid: RM; London: Archive of Modern Conflict, 2013. {{ISBN|9788415118671}}.
2017: (Un)expected by Peter Dekens. Breda, the Netherlands: The Eriskay Connection, 2016.{{Cite web|date=2017-06-14|title=Premios PhotoESPAÑA al mejor libro de fotografía del año|url=https://www.phe.es/2017/06/14/unexpected-peter-dekens-al-borde-mapa-juanan-requena-barespagnol-pablo-casino-ediciones-anomalas-premios-photoespana-al-mejor-libro-fotografia-del-ano-3/|access-date=2021-06-07|website=PHotoEspaña|language=es}}
2018: The Restoration Will by Mayumi Suzuki. Siena, Italy: Ceiba Editions, 2017.{{Cite web|date=2018-06-12|title=The PHE18 Award to the Best Photography Book of the Year announces its winners|url=https://www.phe.es/en/2018/06/12/the-phe18-award-to-the-best-photography-book-of-the-year-announces-its-winners/|access-date=2021-06-07|website=PHotoEspaña|language=en}}
2019: Gülistan by Lukas Birk and Natasha Christia. Austria: Fraglich, 2019.{{Cite web|date=2019-06-11|title=Winners of the PHotoESPAÑA 2019 Awards|url=https://www.phe.es/en/2019/06/11/phe-19-awards-awarded-2/|access-date=2021-06-07|website=PHotoEspaña|language=en}}
2021: Hayal & Hakikat: A Handbook of Forgiveness & A Handbook of Punishment by Cemre Yeşil Gönenli{{Cite web |date=2021-06-17 |title=Premios oficiales PHotoESPAÑA 2021 |url=https://www.phe.es/2021/06/17/premios-oficiales-photoespana-2021/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=PHotoEspaña|language=es}}

=Best Photography Book, national category=

2014:
Winner: Ostalgia by Simona Rota. Cádiz, Spain: Cuadernos de la Kursala, University of Cádiz, 2013. Edited by Fabulatorio.
Honourable mention: The Pigs by Carlos Spottorno. Madrid: RM / Phree, 2013.
2018: Like by Eduardo Nave. Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Anómalas, 2018.
2019: Remembering the Future by Ángel Albarrán & Anna Cabrera. Madrid: RM / Phree, 2019.
2021: Where the maps bend by Juan Valbuena