My on going photographic project DOS HERMANAS Y UN MISMO SUEÑO (Two sisters share the same dream) has been published in Planeta Futuro from El País editions.
SUEÑOS REFUGIADOS a participatory photography project by Héctor Mediavilla
El proyecto de fotografía participativa SUEÑOS REFUGIADOS ya tiene la web online www.sueñosrefugiados.org
Creado y dirigido por Héctor Mediavilla
The participative photography project SUEÑOS REFUGIADOS has the new web online www.sueñosrefugiados.org
Created and directed by Héctor Mediavilla
AGADEZ FEATURE PUBLISHED IN ALTAÏR →
A visual essay of 10 pictures gallery is published in Altaïr in May 2017.
I took these pictures in December 2017 when I went to Niger to continue working on my project "Niger Blackstage" around the FIMA fashion festival.
COMMANDE PORTRAIT POUR MAGAZINE LIRE
Commande portrait de Victor del Arbol, gaigneur du dernier prix Nadal, pour le magazine Lire.
COMMANDE POUR RENAULT GLOBAL
Commande pour le magazine Renault Global faite à l'usine de Valladolid (Espagne).
Portrait couverture et double page interieur.
AYAHUASCA FEATURE PUBLISHED IN LIBERTATION
First publication of an ongoing project about Ayahuasca by François Musseau (text) and Héctor Mediavilla (pictures).
ON LINE EXHIBITION AT GALLERY NUMBER 8
‘I will build a great wall and nobody builds better walls than me, believe me’ Donald Trump, announcing his candidacy on June 16, 2015.
Galerie Number 8 – An artistic response to Trump’s ‘Great Wall’ Speech.
The US election looms in a world increasingly divided between those who demand the construction and fortification of borders and those who are forced to somehow flee across them because of war, oppression or poverty.
Pulling Down The Walls connects the work of Galerie number 8 artists to the current political climate in the US whilst looking further to the chaos that lies beyond.
The world is becoming more and more divided with powerless disenfranchised people being driven to extremism and fear of outsiders.
Some photographs in this collection intentionally address these issues, like Justin French, in his series The Unwilling Martyrs who touches on the experiences and pains of the black lives matter movement's messaging and gaps in representation. Others such as Hector Mediavilla who took a series of photographs along the US /Mexican border in 3 of the 4 northern Border States or Leonard Pongo whose ‘Uncanny’ series taken in the Congo looks at the strange magic of life in the DRC more clearly document the harshness of the lives of the people and places they photograph .
What unifies this collection's response to a divisive political atmosphere is a real fearlessness to the artists showing here. Other artists in The Pulling Down The Walls collection communicate a positive and powerful message that also connects with the current context… Campbell Addy with his unique striking shots takes us on a journey from heritage to pride empowerment and unity, for example the picture of the black hands is very symbolic… Nicolas Henry is like a painter building cinematrographic sets with his sitters, creating a « better" imaginary world.
Ivan Forde and David Uzochukwu have both a more surreal, almost fictional approach. Ivan is the super hero of his imagery, he can do anything, but not be anyone (his caracters are strong, powerful and on a mission)… David creates beautiful peacefull imagery that has a freshness and innocence that brings into relief the knowingness of some of the other artists visions.
“If you were to ask me what attracts me to the work of the Galerie Number 8 artists I would say that they are all unusually brave. From the work of Justin French, who touches on the experiences and pains of the black lives matter movement's messaging and gaps in representation, to Héctor Mediavilla who took a series of photographs along the US /Mexican border in 3 of the 4 northern Border States, to Leonard Pongo whose ‘Uncanny’ series taken in the Congo looks at the strange magic of life in the DRC there is a real fearlessness to the artists I represent. They are all, in different ways, tearing down the walls that divide us and drawing in the audience that views their work into the understanding that we cannot and will not be barricaded against and kept out of a world that belongs to all of us.’
"UNDER THE MEGALOPOLIS" published in "La Maleta de Portbou" magazine (Spain)
My photographic series "Under the megalopolis" with my text are published in the Gallery section of "La Maleta de Portbou" magazine, in November 2016.
Directed by Josep Ramoneda (director of the CCCB -Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona- from its foundation in 1994 until 2011), this thought magazine is a tribute to Walter Benjamin who committed suicide in Portbou while being prosecuted by the nazis. Benjamin wanted to launch a magazine of thought, Angelus Novus, which never came to be born.
ADA COLAU'S PORTRAIT PUBLISHED IN INTERNAZIONALE (Italy)
Internazionale, an Italian magazine, published my portrait of Ada Colau and the text written by François Musseau.
Note: The portrait was unfortunately cropped and the composition distorted
ADA COLAU PORTRAIT FOR LIBERATION (FRANCE)
Portrait assignment of Ada Colau for the back cover of Liberation newspaper (France)