INSPAI presents 'Coexistir' by Pau de la Calle Argelés, XXI Young Photographers Award

INSPAI, Image Center presents the exhibition Coexistir de Pau de la Calle Argelés , winner of the XXI Young Photographers Award. The exhibition can be visited until November 25, 2023. Coexist is a visual discourse on the work of the Gaia Sanctuary Foundation, a vegan center for the rescue and recovery of animals considered to be farmed and that have been victims of livestock exploitation , abuse or neglect.

The jury for this edition has been formed by the vice-president of the Diputació de Girona, Albert Piñeira; by the head of INSPAI, Image Center of the Provincial Government of Girona, Natàlia Navarro; by the art critic and independent curator Neus Miró, by the photographer and doctor of fine arts Marta Negre and by the photographer Dani Duch, who have considered the quality of the images in a special way. "Technical quality above all, well-worked photography, light and color. It's a very cinematic report but at the same time close and everyday. Through the images, a story is told and the relationship between animals and caretakers," the jury emphasized.

On the other hand, the originality, innovation, artistic and technical quality of the images and the feasibility and material possibilities of realizing the presented projects have been assessed, as well as the construction of a discursive thread that brings together the set of the exhibition and that it is coherent and unitary.

Pau de la Calle was born in Barcelona in 2000. He trained as a photographer at the Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny (EASD) Serra i Abella, and specialized in photojournalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is interested in human stories, such as social conflict, migratory movements and the growing global climate crisis.

He has worked as a freelance photojournalist and currently collaborates for different media and agencies, both national and international, such as the Ara newspaper itself, the digital newspaper El Nacional, Associated Press, Time Magazine, The New York Times, Revista 5W, CNN , others.

The Premi Joves Fotograf(e)s de Catalunya is a project started by INSPAI that was born in 2001 with the desire to promote artistic and documentary photography, and, at the same time, to support the creation and stimulate photographers to develop projects, as well as promote the work of audiovisual creators. With this program it is possible, on the one hand, to create a meeting space for the work of photographers and to disseminate it, to encourage photographic creation and to bring photography closer to the general public from all sides, and, on the another, to offer the town councils a cultural proposal through a traveling exhibition and the corresponding catalogue.