{"id":698,"date":"2009-06-25T10:36:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T10:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=698"},"modified":"2009-06-25T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T10:36:53","slug":"photoespana-2009-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"PHotoEspa\u00f1a 2009 Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can read the details of the PHotoEspa\u00f1a 2009 Awards<\/a> on their web page (in English) but the two major awards, the PHotoEspa\u00f1a Baume & Mercier 2009 Award<\/em> went to Malick Sidib\u00e9<\/em> (Mali, 1935 or 6), and the\u00a0 Bartolome Ros Award <\/em> to Spanish photographer Isabel Mu\u00f1oz<\/em>, born in Barcelona in 1951 and based in Madrid.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Malick Sidib\u00e9<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve written on several occasions about Sidib\u00e9 <\/em>who has become deservedly well-known over recent years and last year was\u00a0 given the 2008 ICP Infinity Lifetime Achievement<\/em> award. He opened his portrait studio in Bamako in 1962 and among his other awards are the Hasselblad Foundation International Award<\/em> in 2003. Lensculture <\/a>has some pictures by Sidib\u00e9, and a transcription of an interview with him.\u00a0\u00a0 Hacklebury<\/a>\u00a0 also has a selection of his pictures and a brief biography while the Jack Shainman Gallery<\/a> have an installation view of one of his shows and some works in their frames.<\/p>\n

Isabel Mu\u00f1oz<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

What strikes me immediately about the work of Isabel Mu\u00f1oz<\/em>, which you can see on her web site (her projects are under the link ‘La Obra<\/em>‘, but ‘Making Off<\/em>‘ throws some light on her methods) is both the precision of her black and white work, but also its enormous theatricality. It’s work that I admire greatly, but perhaps it sometimes leaves me a little cold.<\/p>\n

There is also a gallery of her pictures from Ethiopia on LensCulture<\/a>, as well as ten minutes (plus three)\u00a0 of her in conversation with Jim Casper<\/em> – another of his often revealing interviews (needs Quicktime – unfortunately QuickTime Plugin, v7.1 is blocked by Firefox 3\u00a0 on Windows. ” Reason: remote code execution in multiple versions” so I had to switch to Internet Explorer – and presumably take a a risk!)\u00a0 Mu\u00f1oz talks in some detail about the subjects of her pictures and working with them.\u00a0 She works on medium format, making large digital negatives (thanks to Dan Burkholder<\/a>‘s methods) for platinum prints as well as normal silver prints.\u00a0 In Ethiopia she also used a digital camera and made colour prints – and found the digital camera gave her a different relationship with her subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can read the details of the PHotoEspa\u00f1a 2009 Awards on their web page (in English) but the two major awards, the PHotoEspa\u00f1a Baume & Mercier 2009 Award went to Malick Sidib\u00e9 (Mali, 1935 or 6), and the\u00a0 Bartolome Ros Award to Spanish photographer Isabel Mu\u00f1oz, born in Barcelona in 1951 and based in Madrid. … Continue reading PHotoEspa\u00f1a 2009 Awards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-history","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}