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The history of photography is a chronicle of continuous invention and renewal of technical processes and the expressive repertoire of creative photographic communication. These changes in photographic practices have given rise to numerous distinctive approaches, styles, and genres. Some genres rely on staging and directing, while straight photography and street photography seek to create photographic meaning without prearranging the world in front of the camera. Genres such as portraiture and still life may incorporate both major approaches. Photomontage, double exposures, lomography, and recently AI-generated photo-based images rely on the unexpected, the accidental, and the glitch to create photographic meaning.

 

This exhibition is designed to celebrate photographic diversity. In the spacious Valid World Hall Gallery in Barcelona, we devote sections to 19th-century alternative processes, straight photography (including traditional landscapes, cityscapes, portraiture, etc.), photographs capturing the “decisive moment” (including street photography and other images capturing fleeting moments in any captivating situation), staged photography (including both conceptually driven staged art photography as well as still life, and other staged genres), and experimental photography (including photomontages, double exposures, lomography, photographic glitch art, AI-generated photo-based images, abstract photography, etc.).

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This PH21 Gallery exhibition is presented in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in collaboration with Valid World Hall Gallery, a renowned centre for the visual arts.

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Curator's choice​

• StreetMax21: Esplanade150618

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Honourable mentions

• Swen Bernitz: Untitled 2, from the series 'I prefer to call my cubism prim-ism' (multiple exposure)

• Khalil Charif: Atelier 3

• Simon Mapp: Portrait of the Artist (14) (AI-generated photo-based image)

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Exhibiting photographers

Marea Atkinson (Adelaide, SA, Australia), Swen Bernitz (Zossen, Germany), Eva Brunner (Berlin, Germany), Buchen/Goodwin (Santa Fe, NM, USA), Katrina Buckles (Boblingen, Germany), Khalil Charif (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Mary Constantine (Las Cruces, NM, USA), Roxana Constantinescu (Bucharest, Romania), Beki Cowey (Guisborough, UK), Robert Crifasi (Boulder, CO, USA), Serhii Diedushev (Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine), Freek Dirkx (New York, NY, USA), Laurie Toby Edison (San Francisco, CA, USA), Joseph Farbrook (Tucson, AZ, USA), Sonya Tanae Fort (Brockton, MA, USA), Janelle Freiman (La Jolla, CA, USA), Sari Fried-Fiori (Katy, TX, USA), László Gálos (Salgótarján, Hungary), Dan Gemkow (Chicago, IL, USA), Hal Hirshorn (New York, NY, USA), Leena Holmström (Oulu, Finland), Nicole Houff (Minneapolis, MN, USA), Margrieta Jeltema (Bolsena, Italy), Diana Nicholette Jeon (Honolulu, HI, USA), Gary Justis (Bloomington, IL, USA), George Kimmerling (Cortlandt Manor, NY, USA), John Kosmer (Fly Creek, NY, USA), Conrado Ferreira Krainer (São Paulo, Brazil), Steve Lease (Doylestown, PA, USA), Émilie Léger (Montréal, Canada), Richard Luxton (Bristol, UK), Meg Greene Malvasi (Charlotte, NC, USA), Simon Mapp (Wrexham, UK), István Mészáros (Budapest, Hungary), Ashley Miller (Albuquerque, NM, USA), Robert Morrissey (Portland, OR, USA), Fern L. Nesson (Cambridge, MA, USA), Joseph O’Neill (New York, NY, USA), Nancy Oliveri (Estero Island, FL, USA), Amo Passicos (Prades-le-Lez, France), Russ Rowland (New York, NY, USA), Natalia L Rudychev (Paris, France), Robert A. Schaefer, Jr. (New Orleans, LA, USA), Alfred Schupler (Bucharest, Romania), StreetMax21 (London, UK), Ildikó Szabó (Kisberény, Hungary), Ilya Trofimenko (Dresden, Germany), Jiawen Wei (London, UK), Ingrid-Nathalie Wizun (Montreuil, France), Zhikun Yang (Kunming, China)

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