These artists are joining our programme this year, which includes a series of activities offline and online, such as tutoring sessions, showcasing, and takeovers.
Meet the talents from Capa Center:
Bernardita Morello
Bernardita Morello started with photography in her country, Argentina, where she studied and worked in fashion and press. She decided to move to Europe more than ten years ago for and because of photography. That made her pass through several schools as L’Ecole Natiolane de la Photographie d’Arles or BlankPaper. In 2016 she published her first photo book, eden, thanks to the Fiebre Dummy Award. Since 2010 she lives in Madrid, alternating her work as a photographer with her personal projects.
Ire Lenes
Ire Lenes is a documentary photographer from Madrid, where she lives and works. She initiated studies of photography on her own until entering the International School of Alcobendas PhotoEspaña PIC.A from 2013 to 2020, where she gained the Certificate in Advanced Study in Documentary Photography, Contemporary Landscape Photography and in Video Capture and Editing. In 2017, her personal connection with Lithuania led her to embark on a long-term project, the analysis of ethnic minorities in the Baltic States and the understanding of the particular situation in each country, a trilogy approached from a sociological perspective and materialized through visual narrative.
Ruth Montiel Arias
Graduated in Applied Arts from the Pablo Picasso Higher School of Arts in A Coruña, Ruth Montiel Arias completed the Master of Corporate Identity at the Pompeu Fabra UPF University in Barcelona during 2005-06, and the Master of Photography EFTI in 2010. Her projects investigate the human relationship with natural territory, and its derived conflicts of domination and animal, social and environmental oppression. Her work has been exhibited in cultural institutions such as the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima, Landkreis Galerie in Germany, Museum of Memory in Argentina, La Casa Encendida, National Calcografía, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Conde Duque Cultural Center, and Matadero in Madrid, Cristina Enea Foundation in Donostia or Cidade da cultura in Santiago de Compostela.
Jon Gorospe
Jon Gorospe graduated at the Basque Country’s EASD and the Faculty of Arts in Vilnius (Lithuania). His practice is focused on new approaches to the idea of contemporaryy landscape, he has develop different bodies of work such us Metropolis (2018-2019), De Magnete (2016-2018), Environments (2014-2016), Velocidad de las Ventanas (2015) or Almost Black (2011-2015). Gorospe combines his work as an artist with the study and understanding of the image from a theoretical point of view. He collaborates in different projects as a curator and photo-editor.
Mar Sáez
Mar Sáez combines her work as a freelance photographer with the development of personal projects with which she tries to explore the complexity of identity and biopolitics, trying to make a portrait, from within, of the realities that concern her. She has won the LUX Prize twice for Professional Photography in the Documentary category. She has also participated, since 2008, in various solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States and at fairs like Paris Photo, ARCO, Estampa o London Art Fair. In October 2016 she published her photobook Vera y Victoria and in 2019 Gabriel, both with the French publisher André Frère Éditions and presented in Paris Photo. As an artist, Sáez is represented by the Pilar Serra Gallery in Madrid, the Zoom Agency in Barcelona and the Institute Agency in Los Angeles.
