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The photojournalist Ana Palacios will offer, next Friday, May 4, at 7:00 pm in the Espacio Molinos del Río, a conference about her work and will make a guided visit to her exhibition Albino.
Ana Palacios (Zaragoza, 1972) is a journalist and photographer and for many years she has been documenting realities that are scarcely known in Africa.
His latest work is 'Albino' and shows the stigmatized life of Tanzanians who suffer from albinism in a society that rejects them because of their whitish skin.
This series is a work carried out in Tanzania in 2012-2016, with the support of the Provincial Council, the City Council of Huesca and Telefónica.
Regarding the digital leveling of these pieces, David Vicente del Taller by Juan Manuel Castro Prieto has collaborated.
The NGOs linked to the project are Direct Africa and AIPC Pandora.
The exhibition Albino is curated by Alicia Ventura, director of the art company GAV, and has been part of the exhibition program of different centers and cultural events, such as the Pirineos Sur 2016 Festival and has visited several cities such as Madrid, Huesca, Gijón, Barcelona, ​​Seville, etc.
The printed publication in which the entire research project is shown from the medical and artistic point of view has been presented at the Reina Sofía National Museum, among other centers.
The series consisting of fifty color photographs is exhibited this spring in the Molinos del Río space, from March 9 to May 21, 2018. The author will give a lecture on her work and the project in the month of the month. April.
After 17 years working in the production of American films, he focused his work as a photojournalist and began to shape NGO projects with his images.
He divides his time between international film production and documentary photography, making vulnerable communities visible through the hands of NGOs such as UNICEF, Manos Unidas or África Directo.
He publishes in national and international media such as The Guardian, Al Jazeera, 6 Mois, Days Japan, Stern, Der Spiegel, Daily Mirror, Paper, XL Weekly, Yo Dona, El País, Tiempo, etc.
with contents of development cooperation.
His work has been exhibited in five continents, in halls such as the French Alliance of Tanzania and Madrid, the Municipal Archive of Malaga, the Pablo Serrano Museum in Zaragoza, the ACCI Gallery in Berkley (USA), etc.
In the photographic language of Ana Palacios, composed of complex, subtle and polysemic images, the description of human stories of great hardness is not at odds with the capture of magical moments.
The journalistic formation of the author takes it to make visible places and people that stay away from the news.
In this series, his look rests on the day to day of the albinos in the African continent.
The medical complications associated with this genetic condition are joined by the difficult economic circumstances of its context and the social discrimination suffered by those affected.
In addition to the Albino publication, Ana Palacios has published two more books in Art in Movement that deals with art as a tool for social change in Uganda and slave children.
The back door on the reinsertion of slave children in West Africa, a project from which he has also directed a documentary.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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