Interview with Gabriel Peluffo: “The contemporary photographic gaze increasingly requires more thought”
Gabriel Peluffo Linari, Director of the Juan Manuel Blanes Municipal Museum of Fine Arts in Montevideo.
Gabriel Peluffo Linari (1946) has a degree in Architecture from the University of the Republic (UDELAR) and is a researcher in Uruguayan and Latin American Art History.
He received a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 1995 and participated in conference groups on New Tropes for Latin American Art History (UNAM, Mexico) with an award from the Rockefeller Foundation (1994 - 2003).
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Encuentro between Photography Critics, Researchers and Curators in Montevideo
PHotoEspaña, together with the AECID, invites Latin American critics and curators to submit their essays on photography and visual arts and participate in the Encuentro to take place October 7-8, at the Cultural Center of Spain in Montevideo. Sign up here for the Encuentro in the final days for the call for submissions.
Gabriel Peluffo Linari is among members of the committee. PHE.es spoke with him to get to know more about his career and expectations for the conference.
This week Argentine photographer Sebastián Friedman guest writes for the PHotoEspaña blog. Discover his series in our portfolio section. Read his blog here.
Portfolio reviews in Cartagena de Indias and Managua
Trasatlántica PHotoEspaña announces its open call for submissions for photographers born in or residing in Latin America to present their work at the PHotoEspaña Portfolio reviews.
In its upcoming edition, Trasatlántica PHotoEspaña announces its open call for submissions for Portfolio reviews in Colombia and Nicaragua, in collaboration with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and with support from Instituto Cervantes.
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Workshop on book publishing in Oaxaca (Mexico)
PHotoEspaña and the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín - CaSa in Oaxaca (Mexico) are organizing a Workshop for photographers on book publishing, to take place on December 2 – 4, 2010.
The program offers photographers the chance to present their book manuscripts to photography editors.
Throughout the three days, participants will work in small groups to present their publishing projects to professionals who will guide them on editing, design and the overall conceptual approach to their proposals.
Find all the information here
Sebastián Friedman writes in the PHotoEspaña blog
His photography has been displayed in several solo and group exhibitions in Argentina, Indonesia, Spain, USA, Germany, Brazil and Belgium, in venues such as the National Library in Argentina, the Center for Photography in Woodstock, USA, the Instituto Iberoamericano in Berlin or the Instituto Cervantes in Belgium.
He has been rewarded repeatedly in contests, scholarships and artist’s residences.
"Family and Maid", 2003, is a series that reflects about the role of housemaids.
Read his blog here
