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FUGITIVES
Vicente Paredes

Museum of Art and History
26th June, 19:00 hours

Fugitives, the first photo book by Vicente Paredes, introduces us to a furtive underworld of inhabitants of urban land that nobody wants or demands. In it, Vincent speaks of the behavior within our breeding program. Although there is no ground, the dog always tries to bury his bone; although underfoot there are underground tunnels, glass and concrete, the man will still dig to plant a seed.

When Bilbao became an industrial city, thousands of people came from the countryside looking for factory work. They were country people, like the ones here: the difference being that they could not bring their land, they had to come overnight in urban working class, but their identity was written in stone from many generations ago. The mandate: you shall dig the land, water it, keep weeds away. Precarious squatters, grey area residents, held in reserve as the indigenous, they soon learned the key to survival: never being detected.

Extract from Luis López´s text, included in Fugitives.

Vicente Paredes was born in Orihuela (Alicante) in 1972. He graduated in journalism in 1995 at the University of the Basque Country. The following year he studied photography at Westminster College in London. He now works as a freelance photographer with several advertising agencies. All information can be found at www.vicenteparedes.es

Fugitives has been published by Fiesta Ediciones, Universidad de Cádiz and RM.

CA I’ISIDRET EDICIONS
Aleix Plademunt, Juan Diego Valera and Roger Guaus

Museum of Art and History
29th June, 19:00 hours

Ca l'Edicions Isidret is an editorial project created by Aleix Plademunt, Juan Diego Valera and Roger Guaus, to publish their own works. From this, three books will be published at once. The three emerged from very different projects.

L'inassolible by Roger Guaus. The author uses his experience to highlight family life values of his preceding generation. At the same time, the work serves as a tribute and mark of gratitude to his parents and his entire generation that has struggled to find the most effective way for children to find happiness. Based on the text "Reflections of a father for fifty years" by Manel Guaus, the author´s father.

Ground Movements. What is the purpose of three photographers who travel together to Argentina without a specific photographic purpose? Ground Movements has the initial pretence of being a project based solely on the mass noting of all kinds of experiences and situations from traveling, simply by taking pictures. The authors choose to give up their individual authorship and mix images without specifying, in any case, the author of each photograph.

The third book, also signed by the three authors, and with no title, refers to mere photography and the photographer together, in this case the place and surroundings of Ca l'Isidret, which is referred to as the home of one of the photographers in the Alt Penedès.

All information about the editorial is available at www.calisidretedicions.cat

MAKING BOOKS
Juan Valbuena

Museum of Art and History
28th July, 19:00 hours

The changes to technology and the establishment of a model for photo-books in recent years have led to many photographers around the world making books with great enthusiasm and conviction. These are the ideal supports for publishing their photographic projects.

In ´Making Books´ he will speak of Book in Progress , www.bookip.org , an open platform which has as its objective the promotion, production and publication of photographic books in Spain and ,and of the publishing house Phree, who specialize in documentary photography in the first person.

Juan Valbuena (Madrid 1973) received his Degree in Theoretical Physics from the University Autonoma de Madrid, Certified CAP from the University Complutense of Madrid and Masters in Photography from EFTI in Madrid.

He is the founder of the photography agency Nophoto www.juanvalbuena.nophoto.org, He is also a co-coordinator of Proyecta, and a teacher in the International Masters of Photography in EFTI and director of the editorial Phree. www.phree.es