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- Isla de perlas, 1996
- Genín Andrada
Cibachrome mate. 60x80cm. Edición de 7
- Isla de perlas, 1996
- Genín Andrada
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Genin Andrada was born in Caceres in 1963. His relationship with photography began in 1985 and the following year he began to work in the Extremadura newspaper. Years later he moved to Madrid. In 1994 his project Sida (AIDS) received a La Caixa grant and he travelled throughout Europe documenting this disease. The project was shown in MNCARS. In 2000 his project América, la ruta del nuevo mundo definitively confirmed his career. He won the Paris-Photo prize, the series was published in volume CH of Matador, and the MEIAC purchased sixty works from it. In this project, which kept him in America for four years, Andrada left black and white and filled his photographs with colour and vitality.Back in Spain, Andrada has followed a trajectory framed within the "New Documentary" school. From a very personal viewpoint, the artist feels the need to empathise with what he photographs before shooting. The three projects in 2003 (Saharauis, Benidorm and La fragua de Vulcano) are an example of his enormous creative capacity and symbolism's importance in it.
