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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 asked contemporary photographers to show how they understand photography as a fine art practice 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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Curator's choice

Ioana Vrabie: Golden Traces

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Honourable mentions

Emmanuelle Becker: Postcards from my Memory No. 33

Angela Lucari: She is a dancer No. 1​

Ron Mayhew: Magnolia Bloom

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Exhibiting photographers

 

 

 

 Jerry Allison (Estes Park, CO, USA), Andreea Andrei (Chertsey, UK), Val Asuga (Minsk, Republic of Belarus), Karin Bauer (Bisamberg, Austria), Emmanuelle Becker (Paris, France), Stu Bloom (Fairfield, CT, USA), Marco Bordignon (Accra, Ghana), Lindsay Brice (New York, NY, USA), Buchen/Goodwin (Santa Fe, NM, USA), Preston Buchtel (Cleveland, OH, USA), Chris Byrnes (Newcastle, Australia), Catherine Caddigan (Randolph, MA, USA), Tommaso Carrara (London, UK), Ionut Cirja (Iasi, Romania), David A. Cohen (Evanston, IL, USA), Dorie Dahlberg (Long Branch, NJ, USA), Paul Delpani (Vienna, Austria), Peter Devenyi (Ottawa, Canada), Mark A. Dierker (Dubuque, IA, USA), Laurie Toby Edison (San Francisco, CA, USA), Olivia Fernandez (Berlin, Germany), Christopher Ferreria (San Diego, CA, USA), László Gálos (Ammerzoden, Netherlands), Nadia Gativa (Zaragoza, Spain), Michael Goldrei (Vienna, Austria), Paul Gravett (New Westminster, BC, Canada), Maureen J Haldeman (Los Angeles, CA, Hungary), Dave Hanson (Price, UT, USA), Juta Jazz (Nicosia, Cyprus), Gary Justis (Bloomington, IL, USA), Emilia Kashfian (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Inbal Kristin (Ashkelon, Israel), Erik Lamarca (New York, NY, USA), LART - Tóth Ágnes Réka (Budapest, Hungary), Lodiza LePore (Bennington, VT, USA), Aqua Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Angela Lucari (Rome, Italy), Michelle Luke (Kalispell, MT, USA), Simone Madeo (Alessandria, Italy), marcellus (Roosendaal, Netherlands), Ron Mayhew (Bradenton, FL, USA), Debbie McCulliss (Greenwood Village, CO, USA), Johnny Mei (Chicago, IL, USA), Malgorzata Mikolajczyk (Warsaw, Poland), Raheleh Mohammad (Cleveland, OH, USA), Marco Musillo (Rimini, Italy), Nathan O'Brien (Minneapolis, MN, USA), Juergen Pawlik (Woerthsee, Germany), Léna Piani (Ajaccio, France), Katalin Pusztaszeri (Budapest, Hungary), Michael Reese (Atlanta, GA, USA), Inna Rogatchi (Turku, Finland), Jane Ross (London, UK), Joseph Rovegno (New York, NY, USA), Rpnunyez (Murcia, Spain), Sara Victoria Sandberg (Stockholm, Sweden), Lynn Saville (New York, NY, USA), Julius Schlosburg (Tucson, AZ, USA), Sára Sebestyén (Budapest, Hungary), Tina Sejbjerg (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Gal Shahar (Tel – Aviv, Israel), Carl Shubs (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Fabio Sozza (Brescia, Italy), Zsolt Székelyhidi (Budapest, Hungary), Tomo Tany (Tokyo, Japan), ZUNESUKA (New York, NY, USA), Ilya Trofimenko (Dresden, Germany), Rebecca Uliczka (San Luis Potosí, Mexico), Eszter Varga (Kecel, Hungary), Aristo Vopĕnka (Brussels, Belgium), Ioana Vrabie (Barcelona, Spain), Eiji Yamamoto (Saarbruecken, Germany), Jagoda Zwiernik (Żagań, Poland)

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