this Madrid Fine Arts Circle He opened the photography exhibition Focus on the heart to change the world, an initiative of the Esperanza Pertusa Elche Foundation, organized under the umbrella of PhotoEspaña. Elche City Council Cultural Department.
The exhibition brings together award-winning and recognized works from the first edition of the Esperanza Pertusa International Photography Award, an award that aims to recognize the value of the work of photographers that invite us to discover, think and feel other realities. It is based on the idea that the first action to transform reality is to see it, to keep looking. A month later in Elchethe exhibition moved to Madrid as part of the PhotoEspaña festival.
The sample consists 16 paintings by artists like Ana Palacios, winner of the first Esperanza Pertusa award and two second prizes, Fernando Iglesias and Pedro Lodono, in addition to the rest of the chosen ones. Theme addresses of the pictures social problems such as poverty, social exclusion or gender equality.
selected parts, awaken conscience and inspiring positive social transformation that encourages a call to action and pushes to make real change for the benefit of people. “What we see is the work of photographers who decided to observe and make a purpose and an art out of that look,” said the head of the Esperanza Pertusa Foundation. Hope Navarroduring opening.
Participants in the event Margaret Antony, Member of the Cultural Council; Valerio Rocco, director of the Círculo de Bellas Artes; PhotoEspaña’s general coordinator, María Pallás, and the exhibition’s curator, Gertrud Gómez.
“The Esperanza Pertusa Foundation has been working hard for years to help fight inequality and break down the thin lines that separate us from the most disadvantaged,” he said. Margaret Antony. “The exhibition showcases the work of photographers who are committed to these truths from a positive and beauty perspective.”
The mayor of Elche took the opportunity to congratulate the winners and participants “for their particular sensibility in handling such sensitive and real issues in so many different ways, and somehow restored their dignity through them.”
Photo exhibition can be visited until October 23 In the Minerva room in Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes.