I am very happy to receive the Honorable Mention in Professional Portrait Category at the 2021 Monochrome Photography Awards, for my photograph "Museum".
Writer David Cirici, new portrait. /
One of the things I like about David is the way he explains himself, especially when he uses unconventional recourses. Another is how he can laugh at everything. And another is the way he writes; the first time I cried reading a book was with Els Errors, written by him.
The writer David Cirici i Alomar has a degree in Catalan philology and is a member of Catalan PEN and the AELC. He has taught Catalan language and literature. He has worked as a scriptwriter and radio announcer and as a humor scriptwriter in television. Since 1987 he has worked in advertising. He has worked as a creative for the multinational Saachi & Saachi and, since 1990, for his own agency, IMAGINA. In 2000 he founded Cirici Comunicación, active until 2016. Since then he has devoted himself to writing.
He has received several awards such as: Ramón Muntaner, Marian Vayreda, Crítica Serra de Oro, Prudenci Bertrana, Edebé, San Jorge, Stega and Cento Letteratura.
Songs to Watch. Collective exhibition in Barcelona /
My friend Pep Puig invited some of his friends to participate in his exhibition Songs to Watch. A new concept of collective exhibition, held at Atelier Güell in Barcelona, during three days.
I have shown some of my photographs and my latest work silenci.
It has been a fun and fulfilling experience for everyone.
From left to right: Toni Ricart, Tere Guix, Justine Lotus, Pep Puig, John Rozelle and Judith Sol
Photo session with Anna Sanchis /
I had a nice photo session with violinist Anna Sanchis, last friday.
Anna Sanchis Llorens was born in Valencia in 2000. She studied at the Professional Conservatory of Music of València with Victoria Lorente for 10 years. She won in 2017 the First Prize at the XXVI National Competition for Young Performers Ruperto Chapí de Villena and made her debut at the Palau de la Música de València in 2018 performing Max Bruch's Concerto in G minor op. 26 accompanied by the Orchestra of the Professional Conservatory of Music of Valencia, conducted by Pascual Martínez. That same year she won the 2018 Autonomic Awards for Professional Music Education in the specialties of violin and chamber music.
She is currently studying at the ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya) with Maestro Yuri Volguin, where she also studies Historical Interpretation with Alba Roca. He has recently been selected to represent ESMUC at the Prades Pau Casals Festival 2021 with his quartet. He is a member of the Jove Orquesta de la Generalitat Valenciana (JOGV) with which he has made his debut as soloist at the Palau de les Arts de València. Anna is a member of the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España (JONDE) and the Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya (JONC).
multistudio BOOKS launches SILENCI /
I’ve just published a new proposal of sharing my photography: SILENCI is a limited edition of eight boxes, numbered and signed, each containing ten photographs printed with pigment inks on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gr paper.
SILENCI talks about silence, about understanding the moment where silence invites all other presences.
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Fimmaker and photographer Juan gamero, for the "Barcelona Valors Afegits" project. /
I discovered Juan Gamero's work with his magnificent documentary Los Karamazoff, and I have been following him until his latest production, which covers the hundred years of La Floresta, the neighborhood where he lives. Gamero works the whole process, from script to post-production, with exquisite precision and with the security and expertise that comes from his long experience in the audiovisual sector. In his own words: "my passion is to film reality with a photographer's eye and try to make the images speak for themselves on a big screen, if possible".
Juan Gamero is a director, screenwriter, photographer, cameraman, editor and independent producer. He has received, among other awards, the Ondas Internacional and his work has been exhibited at the film festivals of Berlin, San Sebastian, INPUT, Expo Sevilla92 and the Pompidou Center in Paris. He started as an assistant film director and collaborated with the magazine Ajoblanco. Producer in TVE-Catalunya, among others, of Metrópolis, Documentos TV, Dos en Raya, Pinnic and Redes; with documentaries on Jaume Plensa, Mariscal, Sisa, or Los niños del 36. Also joint works with Gelabert&Azzopardi, Zotal, Marceline&Sylvestre, Marcelo Tas, Arnau Vilardebó or Jordi Rocosa. Director-screenwriter of the series Prisma (1990/91), Vivir la utopía (1997, ARTE/TVE), and Carme Riera, Escenarios para la felicidad, (2001, series Esta se mí Tierra). Author of the documentary concluding the Olympic Games Barcelona 92; in 1999 he set up Paradocs with Carmen Rodríguez, to produce his own projects, some of them shot in Bali, Ecuador or Mali. He has co-directed, written, filmed and edited the award-winning documentaries En busca del primer europeo (2011, Turkana films) and The Karamazoffs (A walk where the SoHo years)" (2016, Paradocs/La Quimera/TV3 Televisión de Cataluña). His most recent work has consisted of recounting the first 100 years of his neighborhood: La Floresta, 100 years of stories, a 4 and a half hour macro-documentary.
Architect Francesc Pla for "Barcelona Valors Afegits" /
You can't finish Francesc Pla. He is an endless source of all kinds of miscellaneous information on architecture, urban planning, sustainability or any other topic of interest. He spices his explanations with an intelligent and contagious humor. I photograph him in his co-working space in La Floresta and while he moves the chair to sit down, he explains to me the life and miracles of the Eames couple, who designed it, or how he left Bopbaa, his old architecture office, when the dimension of his work became too impersonal, and set up Leve Projects with his partner Eva Serrats, where they deal with architecture from a closer approach.
Francesc Pla is an architect by the ETSAB since 1998. Since the beginning he has collaborated with different offices and relevant figures such as Enric Miralles, Bohigas-Mackay-Martorell, Zenghelis-Gigantes, Ábalos-Herreros, Dani Freixas, the urban ecologist Salvador Rueda or the filmmakers Bigas Luna and Isabel Coixet.
Until 2015 he was part of Bopbaa, with Josep Bohigas and Iñaki Baquero. Since 2014 he works associated with Eva Serrats within the multidisciplinary team Leve Projects developing competitions and projects on "homelessness". He combines the work in the studio with classes at the Vallès School of Architecture and collaborating in the Environmental Sustainability Plan of the AMB.
Dani Freixes portrait, for the "Barcelona Valors Afegits" project /
When you talk to Dani Freixes you know that he will always surprise you, he will comment on something that no one has ever thought of before, or turn any idea around, improving it. He's a guy who doesn't motor; he definitely sails, to use an expression of himself, which divides the world between those who sail and those who motor. Dani exudes imagination all around and canalizes it with intelligence, and wise humor.
Dani Freixes was born in Barcelona in 1946 and graduated in architecture in 1971. He has developed almost all of his professional activity in the architectural firm Varis Arquitectes where he works with Vicente Miranda, Eulàlia González and Vicenç Bou. Throughout his career he has received important awards and recognitions as an architect, designer and interior designer. Among others, the FAD Architecture and Interior Design Awards, which he has received in different categories: the FAD Opinion Award in Architecture, for the Vintró single-family house, the FAD Award for Ephemeral Interventions and the FAD Opinion Award, for the renovation of the Miramiralls attraction at the Tibidabo amusement park. His work stands out for its imaginative capacity and his tireless search for a wide variety of architectural and scenographic resources.
Our friends from NYC came to visit us /
Leslie and Guido, our friends from Brooklyn have spent a few days at home and I had the chance to take a portrait of each of them. Leslie and Guido are graphic designers and film and video makers in New York City.
Check their work at Cruz Dann Productions.
Making of picture by Leslie Dann. Thanks Leslie!
One more portrait for the "Barcelona VA" project: photographer Diego Petrilli. /
I ask each character to do the portraits in their usual work environment. And Diego tells me that his is in the forest. And he takes me to his favorite spots in Collserola, his refuge to read or meditate and where he takes his amazing macro-photographs of flowers and plants. Diego photographs petals and leaves and transforms them into delicate landscapes and strange textures that seem to emerge from a dream.
No doubt, his profession as a graphic designer and his discreet mystical side help him to achieve a beautiful, harmonic and serene work.
Diego Petrilli has been working for twenty-five years in corporate, editorial and cultural graphic communication. This last one being his great passion, accompanying artists of all disciplines at the moment of making their work known.
He has published Unísono, a collection of macro-photographs. His latest book, 36 vistes de Torre Collserola, (36 views of Collserola Tower) is a precious exercise of repetitive observation, almost Zen, which reveals the surprising play of light and atmospheric elements that envelop Foster's tower every day.