The photographer Didier Ben Loulou, international guest of the 51st edition of ValenciaPhoto, stars in a Cañada Blanch Dialogue together with the co-founders of the festival, Vilma Dobilaite y Nicolás Llorens. On the occasion of the opening of his exhibition On within the festival program, We host this meeting at our headquarters in collaboration with the contest.
Born in Paris and resident between Paris and Jerusalem, Ben Loulou has been developing a unique and unclassifiable work for more than forty years., in which the use of color occupies a primary place. Awarded the Villa Medici outside the walls and recipient of a scholarship from the French Ministry of Culture, His work is part of public collections such as the Fonds national d’Art contemporain (Paris), the victory & Albert Museum (London) o el Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). The story, the signs and, above all, the human being, are at the center of his artistic practice.
In On, Ben Loulou builds a personal cartography of the Mediterranean from images taken over several decades, since mid 1980 until 2025. Morocco, Greece, Israel, Spain, Sicily or Corsica are intertwined in a geography without borders, arranged without regard to chronology, where traces and memory make up a unique territory: the south.
From the hand of the co-founder of ValenciaPhoto International Festival of Photography and Debate, We delve into the photographer's career to deepen this exploration of travel as an aesthetic and vital experience. The conversation will take place in French and will have a consecutive translation into Spanish..
