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A PH21 Gallery Exhibition in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Although photography first emerged as a technological invention, it was also quickly conceived as an artistic practice as well. Pictorialist photographs in the nineteenth century were created to look like paintings, while advocates of straight photography in the first part of the twentieth century strived for the purely photographic means of creating photographic meaning. Street photographers devoted the medium to capturing the fleeting moment, while in the last part of the twentieth century many photographers turned to staging and directing in order to utilize photography for artistic visual communication. Art photography also includes numerous genres and creative practices from portraiture, landscape and still life to abstract and conceptual photography. In this call we ask contemporary photographers to show how they understand art photography in the twenty first century.

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This PH21 Gallery exhibition is presented in Barcelona, Catalonia Spain, in collaboration with Valid World Hall Gallery, a renowned centre for the visual arts.

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Juror's choice

Milos Nejezchleb: Stronger

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Honourable mentions

Akihiro Boujoh: L, from the series 'Lines'

Laurie Toby Edison: Frank Brenes

Vicky Martin: Lions and Tigers and Bears!

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Exhibiting photographers

 

 

 

 Debra Achen (Monterey, CA, USA), Bruce Berkow (New York, NY, USA), Laurence Biaggi (Paris, France), Akihiro Boujoh (Utrecht, Netherlands), Luisa Briganti (Rome, Italy), Eva Brunner (Berlin, Germany), Khalil Charif (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Hyun Joo Cho (Tokyo, Japan), Paula Clerman (São Paulo, Brazil), Dorie Dahlberg (Long Branch, NJ, USA), Laurie Toby Edison (San Francisco, CA, USA), Tamás Eiter (Budapest, Hungary), Catherine Fairchild (Houston, TX, USA), Riko Fango (London, UK), Ilka Fedor (Budapest, Hungary), Christopher Fluder (New York, NY , USA), László Gálos (Salgótarján, Hungary), Lara Genovese (London, UK), Nadide Goksun (Scarsdale, NY, USA), Igor Gusev (St. Petersburg, Russia), Pelin Guven (Beijing, China), Erika György (Budapest, Hungary), Maureen Haldeman (Malibu, CA, USA), Pato Hebert (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Yvon Jolivet (Rimouski, Quebec, Canada), Gary Justis (Bloomington, IL, USA), Nina Karaush (Joensuu, Finland), Balázs Kulcsár (Budapest, Hungary), Petra Lajdová (Bratislava, Slovakia), Hyonchang Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Vicky Martin (Staffordshire, UK), Yoshitaka Masuda (Tokyo, Japan), Malgorzata Mikolajczyk (Warsaw, Poland), Milos Nejezchleb (Jedovnice, Czech Republic), Dmitry Pitenin (Moscow, Russia), Katalin Pusztaszeri (Budapest, Hungary), Carlo Rusca (Muralto, Switzerland), Péter Sárközi (Budapest, Hungary), Szilárd Schlauszky (Székesfehérvár, Hungary), Sára Sebestyén (Budapest, Hungary), Fabio Sozza (Brescia, Italy), Krystina Stimakovits (London, UK), Maja Strgar Kurecic (Zagreb, Croatia), Jiabao Sun (Atlanta, GA, USA), Ilya Trofimenko (Dresden, Germany), Oliwia Zajączkowska (Krasnystaw, Poland)

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