Laia Abril http://www.laiaabril.com Photographer Thu, 17 May 2012 19:50:32 +0000 en hourly 1 Assignment FT Magazine: Mestre Jordi Savall http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/assignment-ft-magazine-mestre-jordi-savall/ http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/assignment-ft-magazine-mestre-jordi-savall/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 15:08:48 +0000 laia http://www.laiaabril.com/?p=1004 This is the assignment about the great Mestre Jordi Savall I did for Ft Magazine this week. If you want to read the whole article (and you don't have the chance to buy the print issue) here it is the Julius Purcell article. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did the shooting!

]]> This is the assignment about the great Mestre Jordi Savall I did for Ft Magazine this week. If you want to read the whole article (and you don't have the chance to buy the print issue) here it is the Julius Purcell article. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did the shooting!

]]> http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/assignment-ft-magazine-mestre-jordi-savall/feed/ 0 ‘A Bad Day’ on BURN Magazine http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/a-bad-day-on-burn-magazine/ http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/a-bad-day-on-burn-magazine/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 17:04:01 +0000 laia http://www.laiaabril.com/?p=1001 So glad today 'A Bad Day' is featured at Burn Magazine an evolving journal for emerging photographers and curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. ‘A Bad Day‘ is a multimedia piece that approaches the struggle of bulimia and that is the first chapter of an ongoing long-term project about Eating Disorders. Now, you can see the teaser on my website and if you want to watch the whole piece, just email me at hello@laiaabril.com.

]]> So glad today 'A Bad Day' is featured at Burn Magazine an evolving journal for emerging photographers and curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. ‘A Bad Day‘ is a multimedia piece that approaches the struggle of bulimia and that is the first chapter of an ongoing long-term project about Eating Disorders. Now, you can see the teaser on my website and if you want to watch the whole piece, just email me at hello@laiaabril.com.

]]> http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/a-bad-day-on-burn-magazine/feed/ 0 ‘A Bad Day’ on TVE and talking about photojournalism! http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/psv-and-cccb-talking-about-photojournalism-today/ http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/psv-and-cccb-talking-about-photojournalism-today/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 14:37:11 +0000 laia http://www.laiaabril.com/?p=989 Last friday 4th of May Photographic Social Vision featured on TV2 (Spanish national TV) a documentary about the situation of Photojournalism today. I had the honor to be part of the among of great professional giving their opinions and also featuring a teaser of my Multimedia 'A Bad Day'. The complete document can be watch at the CCCB program 'SOY CAMARA' now online in their website.

]]> Last friday 4th of May Photographic Social Vision featured on TV2 (Spanish national TV) a documentary about the situation of Photojournalism today. I had the honor to be part of the among of great professional giving their opinions and also featuring a teaser of my Multimedia 'A Bad Day'. The complete document can be watch at the CCCB program 'SOY CAMARA' now online in their website.

]]> http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/psv-and-cccb-talking-about-photojournalism-today/feed/ 0 Venezia per M du Le Monde http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/venezia-per-m-du-le-monde/ http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/venezia-per-m-du-le-monde/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 12:56:04 +0000 laia http://www.laiaabril.com/?p=965 I photographed per M le Magazine du le Monde, La Venezia d'Isabelle Monnin, the fabulous writer. I had a wonderful day visiting the Palazzo Grassi in la Punta de la Dogana, taking some shoots in Campo Madonna de l'Orto and Campo San Giacomo dall'Orio, walking across la Fondamenta delle Zattere, in front of Giudecca and finally having a nice prosecco at Pane vino e San Daniele in Dorsoduro. Here you have the tearsheet with the published images and some extra shoots from the day. Enjoy it!

]]> I photographed per M le Magazine du le Monde, La Venezia d'Isabelle Monnin, the fabulous writer. I had a wonderful day visiting the Palazzo Grassi in la Punta de la Dogana, taking some shoots in Campo Madonna de l'Orto and Campo San Giacomo dall'Orio, walking across la Fondamenta delle Zattere, in front of Giudecca and finally having a nice prosecco at Pane vino e San Daniele in Dorsoduro. Here you have the tearsheet with the published images and some extra shoots from the day. Enjoy it!

]]> http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/05/venezia-per-m-du-le-monde/feed/ 0 Bol’shoy Gorod Assignment in Barcelona http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/04/bolshoy-gorod-assignment-in-barcelona/ http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/04/bolshoy-gorod-assignment-in-barcelona/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:46:45 +0000 laia http://www.laiaabril.com/?p=933 Take a look on my latest assignment for the russian magazine Bol'shoy Gorod (www.bg.ru/magazine/2012/6/) following a butcher on Boqueria market in Barcelona. Not suitable for vegetarians readers!!

]]> Take a look on my latest assignment for the russian magazine Bol'shoy Gorod (www.bg.ru/magazine/2012/6/) following a butcher on Boqueria market in Barcelona. Not suitable for vegetarians readers!!

]]> http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/04/bolshoy-gorod-assignment-in-barcelona/feed/ 0 ‘A Bad Day’ in SestaoPhoto 2012 http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/03/a-bad-day-in-sestaophoto-2012/ http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/03/a-bad-day-in-sestaophoto-2012/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:40:09 +0000 laia http://www.laiaabril.com/?p=908 I have the pleasure of sharing screening with my project the multimedia 'A Bad Day' with photographers and friends as Sebastian Liste, Dimitri Stefanov, Alfonso Moral, Victor Garrido, Miren Pastor and Joan Pujol-Creus among others in the basque photo festival Sestao Photo 2012.

]]> I have the pleasure of sharing screening with my project the multimedia 'A Bad Day' with photographers and friends as Sebastian Liste, Dimitri Stefanov, Alfonso Moral, Victor Garrido, Miren Pastor and Joan Pujol-Creus among others in the basque photo festival Sestao Photo 2012.

]]> http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/03/a-bad-day-in-sestaophoto-2012/feed/ 0 ‘A Bad Day’ in Sarajevska Zima 2012 http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/02/sarajevska-zima-2012/ http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/02/sarajevska-zima-2012/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:06:32 +0000 laia http://www.laiaabril.com/?p=893 Coming back to Sarajevo after many years, where I took my very first pictures, is very special. In few days will begin the Festival of Contemporany photography organized by Ellen James, for this edition of 'Sarajevska Zima 2012'. Here you have the amazing video edited by Irene Airin. I will have the pleasure of sharing screening with such a great photographers as you can see in the video. Dobrodosli u Sarajevo!

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]]> http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/02/sarajevska-zima-2012/feed/ 0 Selected for Plat(t)form 2012 FotoMuseum Winterthur http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/01/plattform-2012-fotomuseum-winterthur/ http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/01/plattform-2012-fotomuseum-winterthur/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:20:10 +0000 laia http://www.laiaabril.com/?p=902 I've being selected to take part of this special and unic curated international portfolio viewing featuring young emerging European photographers on the weekend of 27 to 29 January 2012, Plat(t)form 2012 in Winterthur, Switzerland. As in the previous years, they invited 42 photographers to present their work for two hours to the public and a selected team of experts. The participants have been chosen from among some 140 nominated photographers. I had the pleasure and the opportunity to show my project 'A Bad Day' and my whole portfolio and an special advance of my latest project 'Thinspiration' (coming soon) to all this wonderful experts: Caroline von Courten, managing editor FOAM Magazine, Amsterdam; Patrick Frey, artbook publisher, Zurich; Susan Meiselas, documentary photographer, New York; Wilhelm Schürmann, collector, Aachen/Berlin; Thomas Seelig, curator / curator of collections Fotomuseum Winterthur; Urs Stahel, director and curator Fotomuseum Winterthur .

]]> I've being selected to take part of this special and unic curated international portfolio viewing featuring young emerging European photographers on the weekend of 27 to 29 January 2012, Plat(t)form 2012 in Winterthur, Switzerland. As in the previous years, they invited 42 photographers to present their work for two hours to the public and a selected team of experts. The participants have been chosen from among some 140 nominated photographers. I had the pleasure and the opportunity to show my project 'A Bad Day' and my whole portfolio and an special advance of my latest project 'Thinspiration' (coming soon) to all this wonderful experts: Caroline von Courten, managing editor FOAM Magazine, Amsterdam; Patrick Frey, artbook publisher, Zurich; Susan Meiselas, documentary photographer, New York; Wilhelm Schürmann, collector, Aachen/Berlin; Thomas Seelig, curator / curator of collections Fotomuseum Winterthur; Urs Stahel, director and curator Fotomuseum Winterthur .

]]> http://www.laiaabril.com/2012/01/plattform-2012-fotomuseum-winterthur/feed/ 0 Carte Blanche from Le Monde http://www.laiaabril.com/2011/12/carte-blanche-from-le-monde/ http://www.laiaabril.com/2011/12/carte-blanche-from-le-monde/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:56:12 +0000 laia http://www.laiaabril.com/?p=886 Le Monde new M magazine recently gave 'carte blanche' to a selected group of photographers around the world to shoot whatever they wanted in their based home city. The assigment got me in Barcelona so I decided to portrayed one of the amazing women of my long term project.

The caption says: Barcelona, December 3rd - 4th, 2011. Raquel was sexually abused during her whole childhood and adolescence, sentencing her to suffer severe anorexia nervosa in her twenties. However, taking an unconscious decision, Raquel chose her body, an object of hatred and punishment in the past, as her tool of self-knowledge and recovery. Raquel Boluda currently works as a dance and yoga teacher and is developing a therapeutic integration project for young people who suffer from eating disorders or have been sexually abused.

]]> Le Monde new M magazine recently gave 'carte blanche' to a selected group of photographers around the world to shoot whatever they wanted in their based home city. The assigment got me in Barcelona so I decided to portrayed one of the amazing women of my long term project.

The caption says: Barcelona, December 3rd - 4th, 2011. Raquel was sexually abused during her whole childhood and adolescence, sentencing her to suffer severe anorexia nervosa in her twenties. However, taking an unconscious decision, Raquel chose her body, an object of hatred and punishment in the past, as her tool of self-knowledge and recovery. Raquel Boluda currently works as a dance and yoga teacher and is developing a therapeutic integration project for young people who suffer from eating disorders or have been sexually abused.

]]> http://www.laiaabril.com/2011/12/carte-blanche-from-le-monde/feed/ 0 New photo-review at COLORSBlog http://www.laiaabril.com/2011/11/new-photo-review-at-colorsblog/ http://www.laiaabril.com/2011/11/new-photo-review-at-colorsblog/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:41:45 +0000 laia http://www.laiaabril.com/?p=959 A space suit with tribal markings, a tame elephant, a mummified alien, a barren moonscape flecked with grass... As though ticking off a shopping list, the photographer Cristina de Middel collected the graphic elements she needed for her new project: in the 1960s, at the height of the Space Race, what did the superpowers think of Zambia's Space program? Click here for reading the entired photo-review I did about de Middel's work at COLORS MAGAZINE Blog!

]]> A space suit with tribal markings, a tame elephant, a mummified alien, a barren moonscape flecked with grass... As though ticking off a shopping list, the photographer Cristina de Middel collected the graphic elements she needed for her new project: in the 1960s, at the height of the Space Race, what did the superpowers think of Zambia's Space program? Click here for reading the entired photo-review I did about de Middel's work at COLORS MAGAZINE Blog!

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