Cristina de Middel © Bernardoni
A Keynote Lecture with Cristina de Middel will kick off our New England Portfolio Reviews on July 31, 2020 at 7 PM Eastern Time. We’ve opened up the Keynote for our public.
NEPR is brought to you by the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Photographic Resource Center. The program is sponsored by Sprint Systems of Photography, Digital Silver Imaging and Panopticon Imaging.
Sprint Systems of Photography has sponsored the 9 scholarships for the reviews. More on our scholarships to come.
We have added capacity for our KEYNOTE LECTURE so we can share this lecture with all who wish to attend. There is a fee of $10.
Our portfolio reviewers, portfolio review participants, portfolio walk subscribers, our sponsors and 9 scholarship participants as well as NEPR organizers, all attend for FREE. These groups must RSVP however. RSVP below the purchase area at the bottom of the NEPR paid ticket event area.
Cristina de Middel is a Spanish photographer whose work investigates photography’s ambiguous relationship to truth. Blending documentary and conceptual photographic practices, she plays with reconstructions and archetypes that blur the border between reality and fiction.
After a 10-year career as a photojournalist and humanitarian photographer, de Middel stepped outside of the photojournalistic gaze. She then produced the critically acclaimed series The Afronauts in 2012, which explored the history of a failed space program in Zambia in the 1960s through staged reenactments of obscure narratives.
Since 2012 De Middel has been continuously producing new bodies of work that aim at redefining what documentary can be and at completing the limited description of the world that mass media provide. De Middel’s work shows that fiction can serve as the subject of photography just as well as facts can, highlighting that our expectation that photography must always make reference to reality is flawed.
With more than 13 books published, Cristina De Middel has exhibited extensively internationally and has received numerous awards and nominations, including PhotoFolio Arles 2012, the Deutsche Börse Prize, the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York and the Spanish National Award in Photography.
Cristina de Middel is a Magnum Associate and lives and works between Mexico and Brazil.
