Eduardo Momeñe

… sobre fotografías

Is photography as a pleasure. The pleasure of having a camera and use it. A world of photograph, exciting and affordable for everyone. A satisfaction added for those who wish to put on paper what they have seen and looked at, that is my case. It is a true journey, the photo, in which it is not even necessary to leave our four walls; of course, out there, from our window, there are a thousand ways to go. 

It is also a nice reflection on the environment, as popular as unknown, this “think” the photograph, that strange language without speech”, the beauty of language, of what is said, rather than what is seen in... The pleasure of photographing as if there was nothing to say, nothing to pretend, to no one to convince. Thus, the enjoyment is guaranteed.

Eduardo Momeñe, on Photographs.

Biography

BIOGRAPHY – PHOTO- Eduardo Momeñe

1952 Born in Bilbao

1960 His father, a great fan of photography and motion pictures, teaches you how to look through a camera.

1969 Makes photographs without a break with his Nikkormat and also films in super-8.

1970 Begins to make photo stories and written for magazines.

1971 Jethro Tull publishes AqualungWould you like that tone, that strength, to his photographs.

1972 In the Art Meetings in Pamplona photo great musicians of the avant-garde. More than four decades later, the photographs will be exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. All the months of purchase Vogue French just to see the new ad for Charles Jourdan made by Guy Bourdin.

1974 he held his first solo exhibition in the gallery of Nikon Barcelona. Since then he has been exhibiting regularly in their photographs. Take pictures in the Sahara, the catalog of an exhibition of the painter Joaquín Torrents. Pablo Pérez Mínguez publishes a portfolio of yours in the magazine New Lens. Wheel Andante, a seven-minute film in 16 mm

1975 Abandons his studies in economics to devote himself to photography. Take a train to Paris and tries, without success, to bring the flashes to Guy Bourdin. Uwe Ommer allows you to stay and learn in your study of Paris. Loaded with flashes and brings snacks in the fashion shoots outdoors.

In 1977 he set up his studio in Madrid to work in fashion and illustration and collaborates with various publications and designers. He combines his photographic interests with the business.

1978 Travels with Guillermo de Osma to take pictures for his book Mariano Fortuny / His Life and Work. In Photocentro known to Antonio Navarro, with whom he started a strong friendship. For decades, Navarro will reveal and expand their photographs.

1980 carries out many photographs with the avant-garde group of Marta Schinca and Peter Garhel. New filmmakers arrive in Barcelona with his films under the arm, and they project in their study: Eugeni Bonet, José Luis Guerín, Manuel Huerga, Adolfo Arrieta...

1982 Exposes in the Spring of photographs of Barcelona, in the gallery Pentaprism.

He begins his interest in the teaching of photography. Spend a lot of time to conduct workshops and seminars, photographic, an activity that never has stopped.

Photography Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull, and asks for the influence of Lewis Carroll in A Passion Play.

1983 he held his first individual exhibition –well-mounted– in Madrid, in the Gallery of sen. Coordinates the book 11 Spanish photographers. The gallery Moriarty exposes the photographs in the book.

1984 The Moon published a cover with portrait Alice Baldwin.

Alice appears with Kevin Ayers in the study.

1985 Photograph Leonard Cohen and asks for Suzanne.

1987 Form part of the international jury of the Kodak Contest in Arles.

1988-1990 Writes and directs the series on photography for television The door is open.

1990 participated in the collective exhibition Images of the scene in the Galerie dArt Moderne, in Paris, organized by Gloria Hill.

2005 Exposes Pictures in Europe at the galería Guillermo de Osma, shows that dedicated to his friend, the writer Santiago Barandiarán, who recently passed away.

He begins to give classes at the school EFTI Madrid. For several years, she directs the Master's degree in Documentary Photography of this institution.

2007 Published the book The photographic vision, a photography course that has a wide acceptance, and with it was born AfterPhoto, editorial, which allows you to self-publish and autodistribuir their publications.

2010 Begins to write in the digital magazine Border D, a project of Alfonso Armada,in that you have the opportunity to shape their jobs, “photo-text”.

Exposed Portraits, video, and other fictions in the gallery Metta Madrid.

2013 First exhibition of The photographs of Burton Norton. It is in the hall Minerva of the Fine Arts Circle of Madrid.

Edit the book Pam/Plossu (AfterPhoto) and organizes the exhibition of the same name in the Room EFTI Madrid.

In 2015 he Published the book The photographs of Burton Norton, in which he has been working for many years.

2017 Returns to exhibit at the gallery N2 Barcelona –he had done previously with Isabel Muñoz–, and again in the Off Festival PHotoEspaña, with the gallery Fernández-Braso.

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