In the first bars of the summer of 1936, While Europe shuddered at the rise of fascism, Two young Germans landed in an agitated Barcelona, enthusiastic and standing. Hans Nammuth 1: They were photographers, Graphic reporters willing to capture the pulse of a continent in transformation. What they found was the outbreak of a civil war. Your only weapon: The camera. Your legacy: hundreds of images that spoke to the world of conflict that torn Spain.
That is the story that the Raynal Pellicer journalist and the Illustrator Titwane have become an essential graphic novel: War photographers (Editorial Standard). Next Wednesday 16 July at 19:00 h, Pellicer will present the work in the Fnac Forma of Valencia.
With a style that drinks from narrative journalism and documentary comic, War photographers It immerses us in the first months of the Spanish conflict through the eyes of Namuth and Reisner, privileged witnesses of a country that departed in two. They arrived with the intention of covering the popular Olympiad - an anti -fascist event organized in response to the Berlin games - and ended up following the footsteps of Militians, civilians and fighters all over the front.
But beyond the historical chronicle, This graphic novel becomes a tribute to all war reporters who risk their lives so that the world would not forget. Pellicer, Author of works such as Presumed guilty o Version originals, It is a reference in the recovery of photographic memory and the reflection on the power of the image. In War photographers, Together with Titwane - a navigator committed to social justice - he achieves a perfect balance between documentary rigor and narrative sensitivity.
The result is a deeply human book, where the epic is displaced by the look. There is no glorification of violence or war rhetoric: Only faces, everyday scenes, fear, Dignity and contradiction. The protagonists themselves, Despite its closeness with Republican ideals, They find that horrors were not exclusive to a side. That honesty, uncommon in the representations of the Civil War, This work becomes as uncomfortable as necessary.
During the presentation at Fnac Valencia, Pellicer will share the keys to the creative process, the documentation work behind each page and the effort to return to Namuth and Reisner the recognition they deserve. Because your images, published in magazines of the time, They helped form the international conscience about the Spanish conflict, But his contribution has often been in the shadow of more famous names like Robert Capa.
