SCREENINGS PHOTON FESTIVAL 2016

PORTFOLIO REVIEWER GRANT PHOTON FESTIVAL 2016 Maria Mann is director for international relations for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) in Frankfurt. She joined EPA in 2007. Previously, Mann was director of global current events at Corbis, Paris, director of photography for the Americas at Agence France-Presse (AFP), and then international photo editor-in-chief for AFP in Paris. Mann was a member [...]

CONFERENCE GERVASIO SÁNCHEZ Thursday 5th May - 19:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free entry BIOGRAPHY: Born in Cordoba in 1959, soon he went to Barcelona with his family to settle in Hospitalet del Infante, a town where his grandfather lived. He began working with just 11 years and combined his education with several jobs. At 15, he worked as [...]

CONFERENCE JUDITH PRAT Friday 6 May - 17:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free entry Judith Prat, Photographer Right after graduating I began to study documentary photography and photojournalism. In recent years I have photographed different topics as living conditions of prisoners in jails in Panama, the armed conflict in DR Congo, the living conditions of the Syrian refugees in neighboring [...]

CONFERENCE DANIEL OCHOA DE OLZA Friday 6 May - 19:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free entry Son of a writer and a History of Art teacher Daniel Ochoa de Olza was born in Pamplona, on October 22, 1978. His interest turned from painting to photography in 2001 when he started studying artistic photography in Pamplona and later in Barcelona. He became [...]

CONFERENCE GIANFRANCO TRIPODO Thursday 5 May - 17:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free entry BIOGRAFÍA: Gianfranco Tripodo, fotoperiodista (Manila, 1981) Gianfranco Tripodo is a freelance documentary photographer based in Madrid, Spain. His work is represented by Contrasto. He was born in 1981 in Manila, the Philippines, and grew up in Naples. He has a degree in media science and semiotics from Bologna [...]

CONFERENCE GEORGI LIKOVSKY Saturday 7th May - 19:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. Free entry BIOGRAFÍA: Gjorgji Lichovski. 1964. Bitola, Macedonia.  My beginnings are tied with taking pictures on weddings which was very profitable, but after a short period i decided to try and enter in the news photography because it was an attractive challenge for me. In two years [...]

CONFERENCE P. ERNESTO PIOVANO Saturday 7 May - 17:30h CENTRE CULTURAL LA NAU, Aula Magna. free access BIOGRAFÍA: Pablo Piovano nació el 7 de septiembre de 1981 en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Desde los 18 años de edad trabaja como fotógrafo de staff en el diario Página/12. En 2011 fue nominado para el Joop Swart Masterclass del World Press Photo. En  el año 2005 [...]