Picture Perfect Reality
The exhibition More Photojournalism is showing a selection of four projects from the prestigious Visa pour l'Image - Perpignan festival.
Over 20 years ago Jean-François Leroy created Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan, the most prestigious professional festival in the field of international documentary photography. A must for photography lovers that, along with the also prestigious photojournalism exhibition World Press Photo, make up the two most important references in terms of international photography.
Barcelona has already got a lot of experience hosting these types of exhibitions. During the last 7 year its citizens have been able to enjoy World Press Photo, which, incidentally, was held here not long ago. Now here’s some good news for those of us who were looking forward to more: we won’t have to wait another whole year to get back into the exciting genre of documentary photography. For the first time in the festival’s history, a selection of works from Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan has stepped out of its usual surroundings and has arrived at Barcelona thanks to the work of the CCCB and the Photographic Social Vision Foundation.
With over 165 photographs, the exhibition More Photojournalism stands out for its diversity of genres photographed and their portrayal of today’s world. It focuses on four headline events last year:
1. Japan, March 2011. A selection of Days Japan - The tsunami that devastated the east of Japan in March.A collective look published by the magazine Japan Days.
2. Revolution Roads – The Arab revolutions that started in February in Egypt and spread to Yemen and Bahrain via Tunis captured by the eye of Yuri Kozyrev (NOOR Agency).
3. Nacroculture – Photos by Shaul Schwarz (Getty Images) depicting the portrait of a society that lives shoulder to shoulder with the drug trade in Mexico.
4. Je m’appelle Filda Adoch - Everyday life in post-war Uganda through the story of a mutilated woman struggling to survive in the farmlands.A work by Martina Bacigalupo (VU Agency).
All in all, four samples that promise us exceptional graphic documents that will get us thinking about the world they show front and centre. Nothing withheld and everything pin sharp.
The exhibition will be on until May 28th. I do not know if I need to ask you this, but are you really going to miss it?
More Photojournalism
CCCB / Montalegre, 5
Tuesday—Sunday & Holidays, 11:00—20:00
Fee: 5 € / 3 € for under 25s, pensioners, large families and group tours / Free for children under 16 years, Friends of the CCCB, retired Pink Card holders, unemployed and every Sunday from 15:00 to 20:00