Christian Poveda

Photographe et cinéaste, Franco-Espagnol, né le 12 janvier 1955.
Son engagement politique pendant la Guerre du Vietnam dans les années 70 lui a permis de découvrir le pouvoir des images et l'influence qu'elles peuvent avoir sur certains événements. C'est ce qui lui a donné l'envie de travailler dans le photojournalisme et la réalisation de documentaires. Ses reportages et ses films sont consacrés à des situations politico-sociales extraordinaires. La filmographie de Christian Poveda comprend 16 documentaires qui ont été présenté dans les plus prestigieux festivals et marchés TV dont "La Vida Loca" lancée pendant le Festival International de San Sebastian 2008.

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Christian POVEDA
born 12-01-1955

PHOTO JOURNALIST

Cofounder of the following photographic presse agencies
ATELIER (1979-1981) - VISIONS (1981-1982)
Photographic Reporter with :
SIPA PRESS (1982-1987) - KEYSTONE (1987-1988)
VU (1992-2008) - CORBIS (2008)

Organisation of «Fifi for ever» A Contemporary Photography Auction.
 An exceptional act of solidarity in benefit to Françoise Demulder, Photoreporter. 180 520,00€
http://francoise.demulder.free.fr/index.html

1977-78 : Sahara Occidental : Front Polisario, Cuba : World Youth Festival 1980 : El Salvador : Repression. Iran-Irak : The first three months of conflict 1981 : El Salvador various reports on guerilla, Liban : The war of Zahlé. 1982 : Guatemala : Repression and the electoral campaigns, Honduras - Nicaragua : Miskitos Indians. 1983 : France :
Photographic reporter on the magazine supplement for LE MONDE, in collaboration with Jean-Paul GOUDE, Chili : 10th anniversary of the military coup d'etat. La Grenade : the American invasion, Argentine : The end of the military dictatorship and Raul ALFONSIN's election. 1984 : El Salvador - Nicaragua : Correspondant Newsweek. 1985 : Pérou : Papal visit - Presidential Elections - Various work on the Shining Path in Ayacucho (Correspondant SIPA PRESS), Bolivie : COB Miner's union conflicts (Central Obrera Boliviana). 1986 : Philippines : The fall of Ferdinand MARCOS and Corazon AQUINO's election (Correspondant Newsweek). 1987 : Chili : The MAPU organisation of urban guerillas in Santiago. 1988 : Cambodge : The temples of Angkor, Pérou : Inquire into The Shining Path. 1992 : France : Thaï Boxing. 1993 : France : Street basketball. 1995-96 : France : Act Up Paris. 1998-2002 : Bullfights in France, Spain & Mexico. 2002 : Equateur : Chasing Pirates in Equateur - Sierra Leone, Guinée : Sexual abuse in refugee camps. 2004 : El Salvador, Gangs : The phenomena of violence imported from the USA.

Publications :

Actuel - Bunte - Cambio 16 - El Pais - Epoca - Figaro Magazine - GEO - Interviù - l'Express - L'Observer - Le Monde2 - Mondial Basket - Newsweek - New York Times - Nova Magazine - Panorama - Paris Match - Picinic - Photo - Playboy - Quick - Sete - Stern - Time Magazine - VSD.

Group Exhibitions :

1982 : Nominated at the « Prix Paris Match »: Report on the repression in Guatemala - Le Mois de La Photo - Paris
1983-84 : El Salvador : Work of thirty photographers: New York (I.C.P) - Chicago - Columbus - Boston -Louisville- Atlanta - Port Washinton - San Diego - Houston - Milwaukee - San Francisco - Woodstock - Cleveland - Minneapolis - Rochester -Utica - Ithaca - Buffalo - Whatertown - Purchase - Jamestone- Albany - Mexico.
1983 :10 ans de SIPA PRESS : Paris (Espace Canon) - Vienne - Edimbourg.
1984 : Central America : New York (International Center of Photography)
1984-85 : 1983 Year of the Photo : France ( FNAC network)
1986 : Images of the Philippines revolt : Manilla - Chicago
1988-94 : 30 years of World Press : 2 photos selected. New York (International Center of Photography) - Paris (POMPIDOU Centre) - Londres - Milan - Madrid - Amsterdam - Tokyo - Moscou…
2001 : «Les Chemins du Partage» Pachamama à La Rochelle.
2005 : El Salvador : Work of thirty photographers: New York (International Center of Photography)
2005 : "Eternidad Fugitiva " Fundacion Televisa Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico.
2006 : « L'amour, comment ca va ? », La Maison de la Villette, Paris.
2006 : « ESFOTO 06 » El Salvador . Photocafe, San Salvador
2006 : « Histoires de chaussure, 100 photographes pour Handicap International ».
ARTCURIAL, Mois de la Photo, Paris, with Paris Photo.
2008 : International museum of the shoe, Romans/France
2008 : «Inside El Salvador» The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin

Solo Exhibitions :

1981 : « El SALVADOR » selected and presented by Mme Danielle MITTERRAND for FRANCE-LIBERTE.
1992-03 : «HERMANOS DE AMERICA». 1978-1988, ten years of war in Latin America. A retrospective produced by Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo in Alicante. Travelling exhibition in more than 100 shows throughout Spain including MADRID's Palacio de Linares (April 1996) et BARCELONA, Cotxeres de Sants (Dec 2002). «VISA POUR L'IMAGE» International Festival for Photogjournalism, PERPIGNAN (Sept 1992) - ST DENIS (April 1995) - MULHOUSE (Feb 1996)
2005 : «LA VIDA LOCA» International Photography Forum, Canton, China. Guangdong Museum of Art. 25 portraits of Salvadorian Gang members, a phenomena of violence imported from the USA.
2006 : «REVOLUCION O MUERTE» portraits of guerilleros - Photocafé San Salvador.
2008 : «LA VIDA LOCA» Festival des Etonnants Voyageurs, St Malo.

Publications (Solo & group works)

1981: «El Salvador : le peuple vaincra» El Salvador people's Solidarity Committee.
1983: «El Salvador» : Work of thirty photographers (Writers & readers)
1984: «Photo of the Year - SIPA PRESS» (Love me tender)
1986: «Bayan KO» : Images of the Philippines revolt (Project 28 days)
1992: «Hermanos de America» (C.A.M.) Exhibition Catalogue
1993: «100 Images for Freedom» (Reporters without boarders)
2004 : ‘Eclats de paix' by Alain Mingam, (éditions du Chênes). Peace in all its states seen by 50 photographers.
2005 : "Fotografia " Fundacion Televisa, Mexico. 81 images, 81 poets and writers.
2006 : «Sept images d'amour», six personalities chose a emblematic image of what seemed to them to be request for love.
2006 : « Histoires de chaussure, 100 photographes pour Handicap International ».
Edited par Nicolas Chaudun , diffusé par Actes Sud, hundred photographers, a history of shoe.

Collections :

Spain, Fundacion Cultural de la caja de Ahoros del Mediterraneo
China, Guangdong Museum of Art.
Mexico, Fundacion Televisa
USA, International Center of Photography, University of Texas' Ransom Center

FILMMAKER :

1981: «REVOLUCION O MUERTE», 52', 16mm - TF1.
Co directed by Yves BILLON. The genesis of a guerilla in Salvador.

1982: «DES ELECTIONS POUR UN PUTCH», 52', 16 mm - TF1.
Co directed by Jérôme RICARDOU. Repression in Guatemala.

1987: «LES GUERRIERS DE L'OMBRE» (Shadow Warriors), 20'- CBS news - TF1. The urban guerilla in Chili.

1988: «IN THE HEART OF ANGKOR», 52'- OVNI - Planète Câble.
Co-directed by Philippe FLANDRIN.

1993: «SKETBA» 56' - Planète Câble.
Portraits of black youths searching for their own expression through sport.
1st Prize Mercure de Câble.

1995: «MOM TV», 12' - CANAL+.
The day dedicated to television.

1995: «LEVE TA GARDE, MON HOMME !», 68' - Planète Câble - ARTE.
Thai Boxing used as a remedy to social exclusion.
Panorama Selection for French production - Cinéma du Réel 96.

1996: "ON NE TUE PAS QUE LE TEMPS "(We don't only kill time), 81' - Planète Câble. The Act Up Paris Association in their struggle against AIDS.
Paris Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 96. Festival de cinéma d'Attac 2006

1997: «BORBATA», 58' - ARTE.
Grandure and decadence in wrestling in Bulgaria.

1998: «VOYAGE AU BOUT DE LA DROITE»(Journey to the Extreme Right), 118' Co written by Nick FRASER. BBC2 - ARTE - TV2 Danemark - TV4 Suède - YLE Finlande - NPS Hollande - ORF Autriche - Télé Québec.
A road movie following Europe's supporters of the Extreme Right.
Sundance Documentary Fund 1999 - Selection FIPA 99 - Tel-Aviv Documentary Film Festival 99 - Visions du Réel de Nyon 99 - Banff Festival 99 - Amiens 99 - O Estado Das Coisas, Rio/Sao Paulo, 99 - États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas 99 - Prague,One World 2000 International Human Rights Film Festival.

1999: «AU NOM DU FILS» (In the Name of the Son), 52' - CANAL+.
Jerusalem's syndrome. Sélection FIPA 2000.

1999: «BLOOD & GLORY», 26' - BBC 2 - ARTE - TV2 Danemark - TV4 Suède - YLE Finlande - NPS Hollande - SBS Australie.
A portrait of Jean Baptiste JALABERT, French Bullfighter. For the «Putain d'Europe» series. awarded Robert Geisendorfer Prize & Le Adolf Grimme Special Prize 2001.

2000: «LES BANNIS» (The Banished), 52' - Série « Citoyen… », CANAL+. Co written by Arno KLARSFELD.
Enquiry into « The doble sorrow », applied to those whom have been previously convicted and do not have French nationality. Sélection Festival du SCOOP 2000 -.Festival Médias Nord-Sud de Genève - Projection FIPA 2001.

2000: «UN TOUR DE PASSE PASSE», 52' - Série « Citoyen… », CANAL+.
Co written by Arno KLARSFELD.
The doping enquiry held around the Tour de France cyclists in 2000.

2004: «VELVET STRIPTEASE», 57' - ARTE - SBS Australie.
Co written by Jean-Marc BARBIEUX.
As a stance against the dictates of Hollywood & today's fashion, twelve women perform with their bodies and revive the burlesque Strip-tease in Los Angeles.

2008 : «LA VIDA LOCA» 1H45 A Feature-Length Documentary in association with Canal+.
La Vida Loca is a study of a violent phenomenon that has been imported from the USA. In Central America they are referred to as the maras: modelling themselves on Los Angeles youth gangs, these groups are now spreading terror in El Salvador and further afield.