Eugène Richards and Ana María Arévalo at the House of Culture

For the sixth consecutive year, the House of Culture of the Diputació de Girona is showing two of the photographers who have exhibited at the Visa pour l'Image Festival in Perpignan. This year the public will be able to see the work of Eugène Richards (Massachusetts, 1944) and Ana María Arévalo (Caracas, 1988).

Eugène Richards presents An outsider, a chronological work of his professional career, from his first photographic accounts in the southern United States, in 1969, until his return to the Arkansas Delta in 2019. He deals with topics such as American poverty, the situation of people with a mental disability, the human cost of drugs, war or a woman's cancer. Richard started making this collection of photos coinciding with the covid pandemic and after his son presented him with the possibility of publishing it on the Instagram social network, where the exhibition was not subject to political decisions. The initiative was well received, and it is here that the director of the Perpignan Visa pour l'Image festival, Jean-François Leroy, recruited him to be part of the event.

Días Eternos (El Salvador and Guatemala, 2017-2022) by Ana María Arévalo will be exhibited in the exhibition hall on the second floor. A series of photographs about the living conditions of women in prisons in Latin America. Her work is the result of combining rigorous research with intimate stories, and aims to create a positive impact for long-term social change, through emotional, direct and honest storytelling. He has received several awards such as the Lumix Photo Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2012 and the Camille Lepage Award at the Visa Pour la Image Festival. The artist uses visual storytelling to defend women's rights and other social and environmental issues. He is a member of National Geographic and a member of the Ayün Fotografas collective.

The exhibitions can be seen from July 7 until September 23 (closed from August 1 to 21) from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed on public holidays.

The Perpignan Visa pour l'Image Festival is organized by the Girona County Council, through the House of Culture and INSPAI, the corporation's Image Center; the Visa pour l'Image Festival and the Perpignan International Photojournalism Centre. It was born in 1989 with the aim of showing the work of the best photojournalists from around the world. Over time it has become an internationally known event. Since 2017, the House of Culture of the Diputació de Girona has hosted an exhibition of photographers who could be seen in the previous year's edition.