Exhibition
Samuel Aranda #AftertheSpring
As part of the presentation of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011
As part of the presentation of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011, CCCB hosts the exhibition: Samuel Aranda #AftertheSpring. Samuel Aranda, WPP Award of 2011, shows in his photographies, how is to live in the places where it was produced the so-called Arab Spring, once the conflict has "finished". With these pictures, Aranda pretends to open a debate with other photojournalists and mass media, based in the tensions created by the political reestructuracion in the Arabian countries.
It has been over one year since the so-called Arab Spring, during which countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen joined forced in a revolutionary spirit, resulting in the overthrow of their dictators.
There is huge media coverage on conflicts when these are in full swing, but, what happens after the news?
Samuel Aranda, WPP Award of 2011, has decided to return to the places he photographed when they were on the brink of war, but this time to photograph “peace”. And he wants to show his photos of after the Spring with the aim of encouraging, on the web and in the exhibition itself, an exchange (chaired by the war reporter Mayte Carrasco) with various bloggers and journalists from countries in conflict. That brings to our attention to the tensions created by the transition and (...)
