An original signed A4 photograph will be given to those who purchase one of the two books.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Irene del Pino (Madrid, 1956) is a Spanish photographer specialized in documentary and landscape photography. He has a higher degree in Photography from the PIC.A Alcobendas school., and a Master of Arts in photography from the University of Brighton. She was a finalist for the photojournalism awards of the Santa María de Albarracín Foundation and winner of the New Talents Scholarship of the Gijón Photographic Meetings.. He has had more than a dozen individual exhibitions, and has published three books. On this occasion, In addition to reviewing his career and ongoing projects, he will present his two latest works.: River and Fog, giving away an original signed photograph in A4 to those who purchase one of the two books.
Fog
Neblina is a book about memory. Change is an ever-present factor in human lives., but its speed has accelerated exponentially since the turn of the century. Changes occur in cascade: The internet, The first, brought globalization, and virtuality, generating ways of life with a clear line of rupture with the past. in my country, Spain, The old human landscape among which I grew up is disappearing because the activities and ways of life linked to it fade into the haze.. Together with the writer Natalia Pérez – Galdos, We “rescue” places that are about to disappear or that no longer exist: old hospitals, factories, minas, train stations… They were real in my childhood, and defined our way of life. They seemed permanent, but they were temporary, like stores in shopping centers. While I was photographing, Natalia was investigating, and recovered its history in fascinating texts.
River
I started River at the end of 2020, and I did it during 2021, in the middle of a pandemic. River is about the River Thames... specifically about the section of the river that runs between London and the estuary. The river landscape in east London, it is not a city, nor field, but something in between. As London grew, I also did it in this area, but in essence it is not very different from what it was ago 300 years. It's the opposite of those lovely Richmond backwaters, Windsor o Eton, and also his great time in London. Although some areas have great beauty, It is an abandoned and mistreated land, and that is a faithful reflection of the people who live on its shores. Although the presence of people in some of the photographs is circumstantial and occasional, I think that by showing their world I have provided information about their lives., who is often on the lowest rungs of the social ladder, or directly on its margins. By extension, River is also a work on the borders of all rich cities, and of all those who, in or around them, They are “on the other side of the tracks”.
