B y the end of September, PhotoEspana , Madrid’s yearly photography festival, will have hosted more than 80 exhibitions featuring the work of nearly 300 photographers and visual artists. Shows by established figures such as Elliott Erwitt, Paloma Navares, David Goldblatt and Erwin Olaf lead a roster that also includes less familiar names, Lúa Ribeira, the Widline Cadet and Consuelo Kanaga among them. View image in fullscreen Above: Erwin Olaf’s Narratives of emancipation, desire and intimacy at Fernan Gomez cultural centre.
Photograph: La Fabrica. Right: Boris Savelev’s Viewfinder – A way of looking, at the Serrería Belga. Photograph: Oak Taylor Smith View image in fullscreen View image in fullscreen Above: Elliot Erwitt’s The Human Comedy at the Canal Foundation.
Photograph: Guy Lane. Right: An Uncertain Light by Gonzalo Juanes at the Canal de Isabel II. Photograph: La Fabrica View image in fullscreen The exhibition venues and staging can be as impressive as the photography itself.
Erwin Olaf’s pictures are lavishly installed with curatorial aplomb in the subterranean and cavernous Fernan Gomez cultural centre; Boris Savelev’s urban visions occupy the Serrería Belga, an industrial heritage site and former sawmill; and Gonzalo Juanes’s work is displayed over four floors that ascend a 1907 water tower. Elliot Erwitt’s work prints are elegantly displayed at the Canal Foundation. View image in fullscreen Photographs from Agony in the Garden by Lúa Ribei.
