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Meet the artists nominated by PhotoEspaña in 2021

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Futures Photography
May 2, 2021
We are happy to announce another group of artists to join Futures this year. The five artists were nominated by PhotoEspaña. They are Antonio Guerra, Carlos Alba, Marius Ionut Scarlat, Suwon Lee and Arguiñe Escandón. ⁠

They will join the platform’s activities to present their work to international professionals and to network, amongst other opportunities that will be developed for them, including exhibitions, publishing opportunities, portfolio reviews, and more.

Discover more about them:

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Antonio Guerra

Antonio Guerra's practice shows an interdisciplinary approach to the photography medium that reflects on systems of construction in the contemporary landscape, the processes of their transformation, and our own perception of them through images.⁠ For his work, he has received a MUSAC Artistic Creation Grant, a Pilar Juncosa & Sotheby’s Award from the Miró Mallorca Foundation, a Villalar Foundation grant, a Community of Madrid Visual Art Grant, a VEGAP Grant for Visual Creation, and the Roberto Villagraz grant from EFTI.

Carlos Alba

Carlos Alba is a visual artist working mainly with photography, video, painting and installation. His work focuses on human and non-human relationships in the modern world, especially subjects related to his life. He uses his artwork as therapy to understand his feelings, his past, his masculinity, and his fears. He is exploring issues from everyday life, especially those that affect vulnerable living beings. His tools are objects and archives that help him find the final visual artwork he wants to make.⁠

Marius Ionut Scarlat

Marius Ionut Scarlat is a documentary photographer living and working between Romania and Spain. He obtained a B.A. in Audiovisual Communication at the University of Alcalá, but began his career as a photographer after finishing his Master’s in Artistic Photography at the TAI School of the Arts. Since then, he has dedicated himself to carrying out his personal projects.⁠ Scarlat’s work has been recognised and awarded in several national and international competitions, such as PHotoEspaña, the Emerging Photographer Fund (Magnum Foundation), World Nomads, and Visa pour l’image.

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Suwon Lee

Suwon Lee is currently based in Madrid, Spain. She belongs to that Venezuelan diaspora forced to migrate — to abandon their lives and familiar spaces due to the socio-political crisis in her country of birth. ⁠Lee has exhibited individually in Caracas, Madrid, and in international group shows such as the Guangzhou Image Triennial curated by Gerardo Mosquera  (2021); Vincent Price Art Museum, California, USA (2018);  and Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2013).

Arguiñe Escandón

Arguiñe Escandón combines her work as a freelance photographer and teacher of creative processes with personal projects. She focuses her attention on psychological and sociological aspects, as well as on exploring emotional bonds. She is interested in the thin line between fiction and reality and builds an imaginary wrapped in mysterious atmospheres.⁠ She is the winner of the master’s scholarship in Photography in project development (Blank Paper, Madrid).

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