PHotoESPAÑA Awards

PHotoESPAÑA Awards

Every year, PHotoESPAÑA wants to recognize the work of photography professionals for their contribution to the discipline. A jury of experts is responsible for selecting the winners in different categories: PHotoESPAÑA award for professional career, PHotoESPAÑA Discoveries Award, Best Photography Book of the Year Award y Festival Off Award. He Audience Award is decided by Festival visitors through the PHotoESPAÑA website. 

PHotoESPAÑA 2022 Award for professional career

SUSAN MEISELAS

Susan meiselas He has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1976. His documentary project for the agency covering the insurrection in Nicaragua was a turning point in his career, while at the same time transferring the international community's view of the situation in the Central American country.

From that moment on, Meiselas's career was closely linked to political and social conflicts with coverage of humanitarian crises in Chile, El Salvador and the border between the United States and Mexico. Likewise, he has done various jobs in his native country. 

The work of Susan Meiselas can be enjoyed within the project Sculpting Reality of the invited curators of PHotoESPAÑA 2022, Vicente Todolí and Sandra Guimarães.

Previous editions

PHE 21 XNUMX
Elizabeth Munoz

PHE 20 XNUMX
Spanish photojournalism

PHE Special Award
Rose Rose

PHE 19 XNUMX
Donna ferrato

PHE 18 XNUMX
samuel fosso

PHE17
Christina Garcia Rodero

PHE 16 XNUMX
Harry Gruyert

PHE 15 XNUMX
Paz Errazuriz

PHE 14 XNUMX
Ramon Masats

PHE 13 XNUMX
bernard plossu

PHE 12 XNUMX
Alberto Garcia-Alix

PHE11
Thomas ruff

PHE 10 XNUMX
Grace Iturbide

PHE 09 XNUMX
Malick Sidibe

PHE 08 XNUMX
Martin Parr

PHE 07 XNUMX
Robert Frank

PHE 06 XNUMX
Hiroshi Sugimoto

PHE 05 XNUMX
William klein

PHE 04 XNUMX
william eggleston

PHE 03 XNUMX
Helena Almeida

PHE 02 XNUMX
Nan Goldin

PHE 01 XNUMX
Duane Michaels

PHE 00 XNUMX
Chema Madoz

PHE 99 XNUMX
Luis G. Palma

PHE 98 XNUMX
Joseph Kudelka

Discoveries Award PHotoESPAÑA 2022

JORGE LOPEZ. THE CLOTH

El Clot, in Valencia, is a neighborhood that has practically disappeared, of which only the port block remains standing. Its inhabitants are mostly gypsy families who have occupied the floors of the building that were abandoned. The Clot is a documentary and portrait artistic photography project. This work constitutes a reflection, a way of exploring the world and understanding it. As the photographer points out: “I am looking for a portrait that is unwavering yet intimate, direct yet sensitive, objectively powerful yet full of personal emotion, the product of a commitment to people and their environment, trying to represent both their strength and their vulnerability.”

This project awarded in the call Discoveries PHotoESPAÑA 2022 was part of the portfolio viewing of PHotoESPAÑA Santander and will be part of the Official Section of PHotoESPAÑA 2023.

© Jorge Lopez Munoz
Previous editions

PHE 21 XNUMX
Sanni saarinen

PHE 20 XNUMX
Marilene ribeiro

PHE 19 XNUMX
Lilia Luganskaya

PHE 18 XNUMX
Roger Fat

PHE17
Luis Carlos Tovar placeholder image

PHE 16 XNUMX
Andres Duran

PHE 15 XNUMX
Yannis Karpouzis

PHE 14 XNUMX
Mariela Sancarí

PHE 13 XNUMX
Nancy Newberry

PHE 12 XNUMX
Yaakov Yisrael

PHE11
Fernando Brito

PHE 10 XNUMX
Vanessa Winship

PHE 09 XNUMX
Alexandra Laviada

PHE 08 XNUMX
Yann Gross

PHE 07 XNUMX
Harri Palviranta

PHE 06 XNUMX
Stanislas Guigui

PHE 05 XNUMX
Vesselina Nikolaev

PHE 04 XNUMX
Comenius Röthlisberger

PHE 03 XNUMX
Pedro Alvarez

PHE 02 XNUMX
Flat Tanit

PHE 01 XNUMX
sophie dubosc

PHE 00 XNUMX
John of the Cross Megias

PHE 99 XNUMX
Paula Luttringer

PHE 98 XNUMX
Matthias Costa

OFF Festival Award 2022

MOISES PEREZ DE ALBENIZ

Since its inception, PHotoESPAÑA has been committed to the fundamental role of art galleries in bringing photography to the public, both professional and amateur. 

Among all those that make up the programming of the FESTIVAL OFF in this edition, the gallery Moises Perez de Albeniz With exposure Do not cross. Unpublished photos 70's – 80's by Antoni Miralda has been the winner of the PHotoESPAÑA 2022 OFF Award. The jury was made up of José María Díaz-Maroto, Diana López and Eduardo Rivero. 

The jury has also awarded two honorable mentions, one to Freijo Gallery with the exhibition Famous and Anonymous. Pictures and another to the Pokoespacio Gallery for the exhibition Spaces, by Diego Domínguez, Fede Serra, Luis Malibrán, Ignacio Pereira and Jesús Chamizo.

Harlem circa 1981 © Antoni Miralda
Previous editions

PHE 21 XNUMX
Parra & Romero

PHE 20 XNUMX
La cometa

PHE 19 XNUMX
ivorypress

PHE 18 XNUMX
Wild

PHE17
Joseph of the Hand

PHE 16 XNUMX
Ogami Press

PHE 15 XNUMX
Ponce + Robles

PHE 14 XNUMX
Paula Alonso

PHE 13 XNUMX
Max Star

PHE 12 XNUMX
White Berlin

PHE11
Helga Alvear

PHE 10 XNUMX
Married Santapau

PHE 09 XNUMX
Magee Art Gallery

PHE 08 XNUMX
Moriarty

PHE 07 XNUMX
Magda Bellotti

PHE 06 XNUMX
egam

PHE 05 XNUMX
District Four

PHE 04 XNUMX
guereta

PHE 03 XNUMX
Olive Arauna

PHE 02 XNUMX
Elba Benitez

PHE 01 XNUMX
Olive Arauna

Audience Award 2022

ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: FANTASIES IN THE MEADOW. ALBERTO GARCIA-ALIX

The National Photography Award Alberto García-Alix has presented at PHotoESPAÑA 2022, by the hand of ENAIRE Foundation, her project Fantasies in El Prado, an evocative work in which the artist intervenes on some of the works in the art gallery.

Using analog photography and through double exposures of fragments of the same work of art on a single negative, García-Alix creates an extraordinary "fantasy" within the painting itself. Through various frames and overlays, the photographer reinterprets the work of art, maintaining the essence and character of the Prado pieces. Works by Goya, El Greco, Van der Weyden, Velázquez... through the filter of the camera of one of the great Spanish photographers, for whom the Prado Museum "is the best photography school".

Self-portrait with a beast, 2019 © Alberto Garcia-Alix. VEGAP, Madrid
Previous editions

PHE 21 XNUMX
Circle of Fine Arts: Futures Photography 2021

PHE 20 XNUMX
Fundación MAPFRE: Lee Friedlander

PHE 19 XNUMX
Telefónica Foundation Space: Manifesto. William Klein

PHE 18 XNUMX
ICO Museum: In time. Carlos Canovas

PHE17
CentroCentro: Café Lehmitz. Anders Peterson

PHE 16 XNUMX
Canal Foundation: ivian Maier. Street Photographer

PHE 15 XNUMX
ICO Museum: Building Worlds. Photography and architecture in the modern era

PHE 12 XNUMX
Circle of Fine Arts: Here we are

PHE11
National Archaeological Museum: No Visible Future: Fayum Portraits + Adrian Paci

PHE 10 XNUMX
Fernán Gómez CCV / Banco Santander Foundation: Between times. moments, intervals, durations

PHE 09 XNUMX
Cervantes Institute: Resilience

PHE 08 XNUMX
Fernán Gómez CCV / Banco Santander Foundation: W. Eugene Smith. more real than reality

PHE 07 XNUMX
Fernán Gómez CCV: Variations in Spain. Photography and art 1900-1980

PHE 06 XNUMX
Santander Central Hispanic Foundation: Calle Mayor. XNUMXth century urban photography

PHE 05 XNUMX
Cultural Center of the Villa. Santander Central Hispanic Foundation: Mother Earth

PHE 04 XNUMX
BBVA Foundation: Africa. Sebastian Salgado

PHE 03 XNUMX
Conde Duque Cultural Center: Up close nobody is normal. Uliano Lucas

Award for the Best Photography Book of the Year 2022

PHotoESPAÑA once again recognizes the great work that the publishing industry has done as a means of disseminating photography. With this objective, through a committee of experts from the publishing sector, the Festival awards the Best Photography Book of the Year Award in different categories and highlights the work of a publisher. In 2022, the jury was made up of José María Rosa, a member, along with María Bleda, of the photographic collective Bleda y Rosa, winner of the 2008 National Photography Award; Alicia Pinteño, Head of Editorial Activities of the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum; and César Martínez- Useros, Director of the publishing house La Fábrica. The winning books, together with the rest of the selected ones, are shown in the collective exhibition The best photography books of the year at PHotoESPAÑA Gallery.

International category

MARTA BOGDAŃSKA. shifters

Shifters, edited by Visual Arts Foundation & Landskrona Foto, is the result of the many years that visual artist Marta Bogdańska dedicated to researching and editing archival material, mainly related to the use of animals by the military, intelligence agencies and police forces. Westerners since the end of the XNUMXth century.

The jury awards this book for its work in recovering archives and highlights "the intelligent touch of irony that permeates the entire investigation and gives the message a different and vindictive vision." 

National category

MARTIN CHAMBI. PHOTOGRAPHS

Martín Chambí dedicated a large part of his life to photographing the Peruvian Andes, vindicating the pre-Hispanic past through images of Inca ruins and the portrait of the life of Andean communities at the beginning of the XNUMXth century. In this way, Chambi incorporates a new perspective into the local photography of the time, proposing a unifying view of Peru and also giving light to indigenist discourses that were beginning to gain strength in this territory.

Martin Chambi. Photographs, edited by RM “collects the most emblematic images of the author through an impeccable edition.”

self-published category

GAUDITAN ROSE. TO THE SAME FIGHT

at the same fight, by Rosa Gauditano brings together black and white photographs of the social movements of São Paulo in the 70s and 80s during the dictatorship in Brazil. This edition focuses on the struggles of women and their important role in changing Brazilian society that culminated in the end of the dictatorship and led to the elections for the presidency of the republic.

The jury awards this self-publishing for being a "visual essay that narrates a story that talks about social movements in Brazil, but that could be portraying any movement thanks to the universality of the message." The jury has especially highlighted how the edition is resolved with images that are intermingled on double pages of the book, an intelligent nod to the communication strategies of social movements. 

Outstanding Publisher of the Year

R. M. Verlag

RM, one of the most prestigious art book publishers in Spain and Latin America, focused mainly on photography and contemporary art, has been awarded as outstanding publisher of the year. It is celebrated, not only the high quality of all the projects that have presented the Prize, but also the important effort they have made in recent years to continue producing high quality photobooks. 

Previous editions

PHE21

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Where the maps foldJuan Valbuena. MR

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Hayal & Hakikat: A Handbook of Forgiveness & A Handbook of Punishment, Cemre Yeşil Gönenli. Gost Books

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
The Eriksay connection

SELF-EDITED
SPINYusuke Takagir

PHE 20 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
UniversesDavid Jimenez. MR

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
The Pillar, Stephen Gill. Nobody Books

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
dalpine

SELF-EDITED
Sang noirElie Monferier

PHE 19 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Remembering the Future, Albarran Cabrera. MR

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Gulistan, Lukas Birk and Natasha Christia. Fraglich

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
phree

SELF-EDITED
MigrantAnais Lopez

PHE 18 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Like, Edward Ship. Anomalous Editions

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
The Restoration Will, Mayumi Suzuki

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
skinnerbox, ed. Milo Montelli. Ceiba Editions Institute

SELF-EDITED
New Galicia, Ivan Nespereira

SPECIAL MENTION
The gravity of the lloc, Israel Arino. Anomalous Editions
On Abortion, Laia April. Dewi Lewis Publishing
Whispering HopeChikara Umihara 

PHE17

NATIONAL CATEGORY
On the edge of every map, Juanan Requena, Anomalous Editions

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
(Un) expected, Peter Dekens. The Eriskay Connection

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
Anomalous Editions

SELF-EDITED
barspagnolPaul Casino

SPECIAL MENTION
Phenomena, Sara Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen, and Tobias Selnæs Markussen. André Frère Editions

PHE 16 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
die Traumdeutung, Joan Fontcuberta

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
The Walls Don't Speak / Les Murs ne parlent pas, Jean-Robert Dantou and Florence Weber Kehrer

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
Radius Books

SELF-EDITED
Kleine FotoenzyklopädieGuadalupe Ruiz

PHE 15 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Everybody Needs Good Neighbors, Arnau Blanch. RM/La Caixa

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Illustrated PeopleThomas Mailaender. RVB Books/ Archive of Modern Conflict

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
AMC, Archive of Modern Conflict

SELF-EDITED
PAIN, Toni Amengual

PHE 14 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Fabulary and the Notebooks of the Kursala, Ostalgia, Simona Rota

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Party Quotations from ChairmanRM/Archive of Modern Conflict
Mao Tse-tung, Cristina de Middel

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
Dewi lewis

PHE 13 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Mutant Cities 1941- 2012.
Latin American Photography. RM/Toluca Editions

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
The Little Black Jacket. Steidl

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
Hate Cantz

PHE 12 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
machines, Marin. Telefonica Foundation

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Swarm, Lukas Feldmann. Lars Müller Publishers

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
Kehrer

PHE11

NATIONAL CATEGORY
EuropeBernard Plosso. Santander Foundation 2016/The Factory

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Destroy this memory, Richard Misrach. Opening Foundation

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
Nobody Books

PHE 10 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
soviet aviation, Alexander Rodchenko and Varva Stepanova. Editorial Lampreave

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Atlas Monographs, MaxPam. T&G Publishing Australia

PHE 09 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Paul Strand, in the beginning was Manhattan, Barrié de la Maza Foundation

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Wegee the famous, M+M Auer

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
Misprint Editions

PHE 08 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Marin, Telefónica Foundation

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
albert maysles
Scrapbook Photographs/ Cinemagraphs/ Documents. Steidl/Steven Kasher Gallery

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
Twin Palms

PHE 07 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
making time, Thomas Struth. Prado Museum/Turner

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Lda Sob Céus
strangers. uma
exile story, Daniel Blaufucks. Edições Tinta-da-china

OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR
Steidl Publishers

PHE 06 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
History of the Afal photographic group 1956/1963, PhotoEditor/ Photovision

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Audiovisual Snap Judgments: New Positions
in Contemporary African Photography. Steidl Publishers

PHE 05 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
ManilaRicky Davila. Editorial Gran Sol/Community of Madrid
Nice to meet you, Txema Salvans

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Why, Mr. Why?Geert van Kesteren. Artimo NL

PHE 04 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Women, love and liesCarmela Garcia. TF Editors

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
A Story Book Life, Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Twim Palm Publishers

PHE 03 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Home, Lars Tunjörk. Steidl

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Quelli di Bagueria, Ferdinand Scianna. Peliti Associati

PHE 02 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Very, Very Bad News, Jordi Bernado. act

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Martin Parr. Phaidon Press London
BerlinGabriel Basilicus. Actes Sud (ex aequo)

PHE 01 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Alberto Garcia-Alix (1976-1998)

PHE 00 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
VanitasChristopher Hara

PHE 99 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
InfernoJames Nachtwey

PHE 98 XNUMX

NATIONAL CATEGORY
Outland, Roger Ballen