Portrait nominee

The brotherhood of the crab. This name I gave the group of people keeping me company at home , making everything easier, during the year 2016. Complex months, of radio and after that chemotherapy, with various complications interlaced. These people , by permitting themselves to be photographed, allowed me to step outside myself. To photograph- to prove to myself and others that I am alive in spite of exhaustion, diplopia, imbalance... to look for the normal, the mundane, within an abnormal setting. I learnt a great deal from sitting and facing each of them, holding their gaze which I sometimes saw only dimly. This series of portraits emerged, with no atrezzo other than the chair and only the light coming in through my window. I thank each and all of these persons, dear to me, for their generosity... and extend it to the inventor of autofocus...

Pepe Guinea is an Spanish photographer based in Madrid. After a little encounter with cinema and photography during his study years, worked a long career as a software developer until his meeting with a brain tumor few years ago, moment he began to take some photographs again.

He studied several courses of photography in EFTI School in Madrid and this year he studied Photoespaña - Master course in theory and artistic projects.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Festival Circulations - Festival de la jeune photographie européenne (March 2016)

Instante Continuo - Photoespaña 2015. Centro Cultural Anabel Segura. Alcobendas (Madrid),


SELECTED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

photoworks.org.uk - Showcase (December 2015)

MENTIONS

Scholarship Roberto Villagraz EFTI 2016, Finalist.