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ARTISTS
DIAMBRA MARIANI
Diambra Mariani (Verona, Itàlia. 1982).
In 2011, I joined Prospekt Photo Agency (Milan) and started working as a photojournalist. Between 2012 and 2021, I lived in Barcelona, where I worked as a freelance photographer and photography teacher.
In 2022, I moved back to Italy, where I currently live and where I organize workshops and art residencies. My photographic research nowadays mostly focuses on autobiographical projects that mix different artistic languages.
MAURO CURTI
Mauro Curti (1980) is an Italian photographer who lives and works in Cuneo (Italy).
He works in a documentary manner across subject matter, primarily making work around rural communities and the landscapes that they inhabit, focusing on the intricate interaction between humanity and nature.
JUAN DE LA QUINTANA
Juan de la Quintana is a photographer and visual artist from Madrid. He studied biology and has a master's in artistic and documentary photography. With various national and international accomplishments, from print publications to exhibitions, his photography explores issues such as loneliness and isolation, detachment, and the passage of time.
GABRIEL CASAS I GALOBARDES
Gabriel Casas Galobardes was born in Barcelona on December 21, 1892, and died in this city on November 14, 1973. He started at a young age in the world of photography, which he knew through family tradition. After a stay in Uruguay and Argentina, where he worked in the home of a portrait artist, he returned to Barcelona, where he opened his own photographic studio. Between 1929 and 1939, he produced a large number of high-quality reports that were published in magazines and newspapers such as L'Esport Català, Diario Oficial de la Exposición Internacional de Barcelona, Barcelona Gráfica, La Rambla, Mirador, Imatges, d'Ací and from there, La Vanguardia, S'Agaró and others. After the war, he was persecuted and imprisoned and later dedicated himself to industrial and advertising photography.
LAURA F. IZUZQUIZA
Laura F. Izuzquiza (Madrid. 1989) is a photographer and visual artist. She graduated in Journalism and Communication from the EU and specialized in photography and film from the SFUAD. In 2021, she received the Fulbright Fine Arts scholarship, with which she studied creative photography at ICP in New York. She has exhibited individually and collectively in institutions, galleries, festivals, and art fairs.
SALVI DANÉS
Salvi Danés Vernedas. (Barcelona, 1985).
He pursued his photographic studies in Barcelona, focusing his interest on photography with a marked documentary character. Playing with the foundations of journalistic reports and conceptual photography, he directs his lens towards scenes that explain fragments of various social situations with a direct, subjective, and contemporary style. Drawing inspiration from classic reports, he uses the genre's narrative to find his own expressive language to give meaning to his stories.
LAURA VOSKIAN
Laura Voskian (Argentina. 1988) shows a deep attraction to the contemplative, her method seems an attempt to treasure the minimal through the accumulation of notes on her explorations of the strange and the beautiful, on the transcendence of the inconsequential.
ENRIQUE PEZO
Enrique Pezo Gómez (Peru. 1994)
Thrives in Madrid as a visual artist and researcher. The EFTI school awarded him the Roberto Villagraz scholarship for the Master in Author Photography. He also received the DAFO scholarship to study the Master in Film Criticism at ECAM. He has exhibited his work in Peru, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
SCHOOLS
FACULTY OF FINE ARTS
The Fine Arts degree is one of the studies in the Faculty of Fine Arts. The degree offers our students the possibility to train in artistic practice and thinking, taking into account both the specificity of the different disciplines and the transdisciplinary reality of contemporary art.
The Faculty of Fine Arts participates in the fifth edition of the Light Festival with two students.
These students are:
Míriam Bautista amb el projecte "Encara que es de nit"
Roger Segarra amb el projecte "L'Inconscient de l'artefacte"
EAD SANT CUGAT
L’Escola d’Art i Disseny de Sant Cugat participates for the first time in the Lumínic festival with a selection of photographs of students from Higher Education Courses. These photographs show different approaches to the world of the unconscious, based on previous research in which they have analyzed the photographic work of contemporary authors.
INSTITUT D'ESTUDIS FOTOGRÀFICS DE CATALUNYA
The Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya participates in the fifth edition of the Luminic Festival with student Pau Vendrell who will show the work “My world doesn't let em breathe” in the Ateneu Santcugatenc space.
ELISAVA
Elisava participates in the fifth edition of the Luminic Festival with two students where they will show their work which they have made in the Master of Photography and Design.
These students are:
Eric Sandstrom amb el projecte "I Could See The Smallest Things"
Martina Orska amb el projecte "Heredosporium"
EL OBSERVATORIO
El Observatorio participates in the fifth edition of the Lumínic Festival with two students where they will show the work of authors who have completed the Author's Documentary Photography course.
These alumni are:
Emili Argemí amb el projecte "21 12"
Jessica Crespo amb el projecte "Púlsar"
