Fernando Brito
#Photographe
- Festival
PHotoEspaña 2013 : 74 exhibitions and activities in Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Alcobendas, Cuenca, Lanzarote and Zaragoza
Between June 5 and July 28, PHotoEspaña 2013, the XVI edition of the international festival of photography and visual arts, presents 74 exhibitions with works by 328 artists from 42 countries and an ample selection of public and professional activities. Lanzarote, Zaragoza and Prague are added to Madrid, Cuenca, Alcalá de Henares, and Alcobendas as venues of the festival.
© Ricard Terré, Sant Boi de Llobregat
In his last years as general curator of the festival, Gerardo Mosquera presents an exhibition program that revolves around the theme, Body. Eros and Politics, which look at the diversity with which photography has approached one of its major themes: the human body.
© Birgit Jürgenssen, Untitled (Self with Little Fur), 1974-1977
... - Exposition
Blue Sky Gallery presents a double exhibition of Fernando Brito and Kent Krugh
As a photojournalist living and working in Culiacán, Mexico, artist Fernando Brito has witnessed countless human casualties of drug-related violence. While photographing crime scenes for Culiacán's El Debate newspaper, Brito also began creating images for his series, Your Steps Were Lost in the Landscape, in order to provide a more nuanced look at the increasing violence in his hometown. Brito intentionally frames each recent murder he encounters within the larger landscape, at times blending the scene so seamlessly that, at first glance, one might miss the presence of a body entirely. While the stunning colors and scenic compositions of these large-scale prints initially soften the blow of seeing decaying corpses, the anonymity and space surrounding the deceased only temporarily distances the viewer... - Exposition
fALSEfAKES : central exhibition of the 4th photo-triennal 50JPG
The central exhibition in the 50JPG seeks to question the documentary character of photography. We all seem to share the assumption that anyone producing optical images is providing testimony on the tangible world. But this positivistic, pro-scientific nineteenth-century belief has been shaken by the ‘derealisation’ of our lives and the increasingly spectacle-oriented quality of news in contemporary capitalist society. Moreover, that process includes artists like Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman who reverse the usual codes in photography.
© Paul Graham
The exhibition fALSEfAKES seeks to probe the documentary value of photography. Whether we are producers or viewers of photos, we all seem to share the assumption that anyone recording images using an optical device is, i... - Exposition
Fernando Brito présente “ Lost in the Landscape » à la gallerie RTR
La galerie RTR présente, pour la première fois en Europe, l’exposition personnelle du photographe mexicain Fernando BRITO intitulée « Lost in the Landscape ». 12 images en grand format, issues de son projet qu’il mène depuis 2006, ont été prises à Culiacán au Mexique où il vit est travaille comme photojournaliste.
"All those people, all those lives
Where are they now?
With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
It seems so unfair
I want to cry"
Cemetry Gates - The Smiths
Il est difficile de savoir comment aborder le travail photographique de Fernando Brito. D'une...
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Between June 5 and July 28, PHotoEspaña 2013, the XVI edition of the international festival of photography and visual arts, presents 74 exhibitions with works by 328 artists from 42 countries and an ample selection of public and professional activities. Lanzarote, Zaragoza and Prague are added to Madrid, Cuenca, Alcalá de Henares, and Alcobendas as venues of the festival.
© Ricard Terré, Sant Boi de Llobregat
In his last years as general curator of the festival, Gerardo Mosquera presents an exhibition program that revolves around the theme, Body. Eros and Politics, which look at the diversity with which photography has approached one of its major themes: the human body.
© Birgit Jürgenssen, Untitled (Self with Little Fur), 1974-1977
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As a photojournalist living and working in Culiacán, Mexico, artist Fernando Brito has witnessed countless human casualties of drug-related violence. While photographing crime scenes for Culiacán's El Debate newspaper, Brito also began creating images for his series, Your Steps Were Lost in the Landscape, in order to provide a more nuanced look at the increasing violence in his hometown. Brito intentionally frames each recent murder he encounters within the larger landscape, at times blending the scene so seamlessly that, at first glance, one might miss the presence of a body entirely. While the stunning colors and scenic compositions of these large-scale prints initially soften the blow of seeing decaying corpses, the anonymity and space surrounding the deceased only temporarily distances the viewer...
The central exhibition in the 50JPG seeks to question the documentary character of photography. We all seem to share the assumption that anyone producing optical images is providing testimony on the tangible world. But this positivistic, pro-scientific nineteenth-century belief has been shaken by the ‘derealisation’ of our lives and the increasingly spectacle-oriented quality of news in contemporary capitalist society. Moreover, that process includes artists like Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman who reverse the usual codes in photography.
© Paul Graham
The exhibition fALSEfAKES seeks to probe the documentary value of photography. Whether we are producers or viewers of photos, we all seem to share the assumption that anyone recording images using an optical device is, i...
La galerie RTR présente, pour la première fois en Europe, l’exposition personnelle du photographe mexicain Fernando BRITO intitulée « Lost in the Landscape ». 12 images en grand format, issues de son projet qu’il mène depuis 2006, ont été prises à Culiacán au Mexique où il vit est travaille comme photojournaliste.
"All those people, all those lives
Where are they now?
With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
It seems so unfair
I want to cry"
Cemetry Gates - The Smiths
Il est difficile de savoir comment aborder le travail photographique de Fernando Brito. D'une...