Cristina de Middel: The great interrogator

Neither for them, nor because he was the first Spaniard to head the prestigious agency. Magnum Photos. Or because he has his credit National Photography Award, Prix de Virginia, or Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York, to name some of the unquestionably prestigious awards. Not even because he hung his work on the walls of the hall. Meadow. Or just because it was chosen by the magazine forbes Somebody 100 most influential women in Spain next to the virologist Val Daisy, Queen Latviavice presidents Diaz, Calvino and Ribera or a lot rosalyaamong others.

for him, for Cristina de Middel (Alicante, 1975), stateless by blood manchegan and belgiumwould be real power fly. or be transparent. “That’s the power! But what I have in Magnum, I don’t see it, it’s symbolic. Nothing has changed. I’m still the same person who always works and has to work hard for everything he has accomplished. Nothing more”. Not less.

What if I still feel strong? of course i will but My strength lies in being able to achieve what I propose.not by being president”, he confirms with the smiles of those who seem so. garden joy but in reality it is your secret weapon to manage the perception that everything is deadly.

That’s how he feels, and that’s how he lets go without losing his composure. crib hipster born with the microchip of critical opinion placed as the standard and the healthy habit of questioning everything. Even to question who is questioning. It is his character, like the scorpion in the fairy tale.

confessions «a very well done proactive pessimist”, as he describes himself, is willing to keep trying to change what he doesn’t like. And to do it through a different language. your. The same one that caused the newspaper to leave the newsroom ten years ago. Alicante INFORMATION, where he works and where he feeds” craze to create something new every day», diving into unknown waters. And it did. “With the feeling that I am rowing against the current in a boat that when they see it sailing, everyone wants to get on it»sums it up without hiding it a bit kicking their calves this has just been published.

Release this reflection from the heart of colonial and colorful Salvador de Bahia, From the top floor of the building where he established his stop and inn with his partner, Bruno Moraisand where other artists aspire to build a kind of dwelling where they have no other concern or goal to create. Verb that conjugates more and better. But that will come later.

after giving several trips around the world Aware of the fact that in recent years, Magnum has co-workers loyal to his management, this storyteller is at this stage when he assures himself that he has learned to be older. “I want to be something else too,” explains the artist, flavored with a laugh gun, to whom the world met as a result of what had happened to him. Describe Zambia’s failed space race in a photobook. And it hasn’t stopped since.

but first afronauts, Cristina de Middel was already leading the way. but they ask Paul P.. With P for whore. He began to describe his “life and miracles” in pictures and eventually united his love if there was another one from the family he had killed in the most Sicilian understanding of the term.

Now it’s time for the contracted party to the contracted party, who will say? Marx. Groucho. Or what is the same prostitutes who bought the services of many other Paula’s. Gentlemen’s Club and visited a dozen cities to conduct the one hundred interviews that make up this work in file format: From Kabul to Bangkok, passing through Rio, Havana, Lagos, Mexico, Amsterdam, Paris, Mumbai and Los Angeles. Hereby they charge a fee for allowing the lens and the artist’s pen to be used by them. It’s Middel’s time reversing the roles to make the facts, misery and injustice visible.

Paradoxically, a project with the head of Magnum Couldn’t find who edited it. Partly because of the blandness of the subject, and largely because of his unwillingness to accept intervention at this point. He knows what he wants, how he wants it, and most of all, he knows he can afford to make non-commercial decisions that are likely to be vetoed otherwise. So, as with Paula and the African astronauts, it will be another personal broadcast. And those experiences didn’t end badly.

with four exposures in the bedroom, three in the Community of Valencia and one on the Canal de Isabel II in Madrid (Letters to the Editor searched for the second) and another photo book (journey to the center) On his migration path from Central America to the USA, the great inquisitor tirelessly pursues his goal of drawing attention to everything he wants to change. Which is not small.

And for that, you just need to focus on what you like the most: take pictures and feed your curiosity. This is too much. But without losing sight of the fact that one of his mantras is the lack of soundness of truth. As soon as he stops playing being older, he gets it.