18.MAR.2021 - 31.JUL.2021
Foto Colectania explores the work of the iconic American photographer, Mary Ellen Mark, during the second half of the 20th century documenting a wide variety of women in diverse situations.
From graduating from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 1964 with a degree in photojournalism, until her recent death just over fifty years later, Mary Ellen Mark worked as a documentary photographer performing innovative and intensely vivid photographic essays, exploring the realities of people in complex, often difficult situations. The protagonists of most of those images were women.
“Mary Ellen Mark knew how to enter the most intimate layers of the most marginal lives. Each of her reports is a descent into hell that she faced with an almost mystical calm. " Anne Morin, curator of the exhibition.
Mark was a pioneer, his perspective ahead of the current approach to reporting abuses suffered by women that have highlighted movements like #MeToo. She showed them through numerous projects that explore the lives of women in difficult, painful, and sometimes almost impossible situations. A passionate witness, his life's work consisted of using photography and film to delve into the existence of others as a way of embracing their humanity and sharing it with a wider audience, providing his subjects with a relevant, often powerful voice.
Foto Colectania is a non-profit organization, created in Barcelona in 2002, with the aim of disseminating photography and making it known in the social, artistic and educational field of our country. The programs that are carried out, from exhibitions to activities and publications, are based on the creation of an innovative and participatory project whose main axis is thinking around the image.
Del 18 de marzo al 31 de julio de 2021
Miércoles a viernes de 16 a 20h. Sábado de 11 a 15h y de 16 a 20h. Domingo de 11 a 15h.