Juan Antonio Guerrero, b.1980, Almería, Spain
I began working with photography in 2003, although I did not professionalize until 2007, when I moved to Madrid to study documentary photography at EFTI. From that point on, I started working in editorial and press photography, focusing on portraiture, and I became an assistant to Sofía Moro. I have published in international media and developed my own editorial projects, including a commissioned book for the University of Almería and several artistic fanzines. I am currently preparing a new publication in collaboration with a Spanish publisher.
My work is situated in the experience of everyday photography and in the tension between 20th-century aesthetics and contemporary digital visual culture. I am interested in how the languages of the past can function as tools to read the present, and how photography, even as a technical device, preserves a trace of human gesture.
I work from this question: between the apparatus and the decision, between the logic of the camera and the improbability introduced by the author. I understand photography as a form of observation that is simultaneously external and internal.
Since 2022, I have been teaching at the Andalusian public school of photography, currently at the Escuela de Arte de Algeciras. As a teacher, I am interested in guiding students in integrating photography into their lives, using it as a tool to reflect on their relationship with the world and their own experience. It is in this space that I situate my main contribution to working with photographic images.
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