Hybrids. Forging new realities as a counter-narrative PHotoESPAÑA 2022

Description

Hybrids brings together the works of the photographers selected after the call for Futures Photography that promotes the mobility and visibility of emerging photographers. After a year of comings and goings and uncertainties, the current reality is anything but balanced. Waves of counter narratives continue to flourish and subvert our knowledge base, altering all the parameters that marked the sense of being and belonging. In Europe, the new generations try to promote a new cultural literacy. Although it seems difficult to be able to define a direction in such a cluttered environment. Within this climate of hybrid experimentation, we are witnessing new realities being forged every day. What new ways of doing, narrating and understanding are here to stay, and what can we do with the horizon that lies ahead? These eleven artists explore these questions.

They were selected through an open call among the authors that are part of the Futures Photography platform, created in 2018. PHotoESPAÑA selected Carlos Alba, who joins the rest of the authors selected by the rest of the European institutions that are part of this project. .

A hybrid proposal in which, from different media, in dialogue with photography, the impact of technology and on humanity and the natural world is investigated. Photographers: Maija Savolainen, Carlos Alba, Hien Hoang, Emily Graham, Eva Kreuger, Marta Bogdanska, Alexey Shlyk, Valeria Cherchi, Io Sivertsen, Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond Skeaping and Jean Vincent Simonet Futures Photography is an international platform dedicated to photography that brings together a large photographic community worldwide with the aim of increasing the visibility and projection of emerging artists from around the world. Its objective is to empower these photographers by launching initiatives to promote their work and give them access to the wide network of professionals, institutions, festivals, publishers and museums that comprise it.

The project is co-financed by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union and incorporates new members every year. It currently has thirteen institutions: British Journal of Photography (UK), The Calvert Journal (UK), CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (IT), FOMU (BE), Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL), PHotoESPAÑA (ES), PhotoIreland ( IR), Photo Romania Festival (RO), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Tblisi Photo Festival (GE), Void (GR), and Triennial of Photography Hamburg (DE).