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CREATOR_ARALE
REARTES
Arale Reartes (Barcelona, 1995) is an artist working in the field of photography. After graduating in Art History from the University of Barcelona (2016) and training in Photography at the Industrial School of Barcelona (2017), she continued her development at the International Center of Photography in New York. During the four years she lived in the city, she delved into the field of fashion photography, collaborating with publications such as Vogue and Condé Nast Traveller, and with international brands such as Armani, Rimowa, Massimo Dutti, and Ami Paris.
Her personal work focuses on self-portraiture as a territory of identity and emotional exploration, articulating a dialogue between her commercial practice and her more introspective artistic universe. Through self-representation, Arale investigates the duality between fragility and the construction of imagery, creating images that reveal a constant tension between the intimate and the performative. In her recent projects, the artist uses her own body as a narrative instrument to address themes such as alienation, loss, and the transformation of the self, positioning photography as a space of resistance and symbolic reconfiguration. Her work has been showcased at PhotoEspaña 2025, as well as in various galleries in Barcelona, Berlin, and Japan, establishing a practice that oscillates between the poetic and the conceptual. Her work is distinguished by a gaze that combines vulnerability and control, establishing a visual language where introspection becomes a form of aesthetic and political assertion.
TEACHERS_TXEMA
SALVANS
Txema Salvans (1971, Barcelona) is a Catalan photographer who, over the past three decades, has developed a documentary and artistic approach independent of the usual platforms of photojournalism, including photographic essays.
Salvans alternated studies in biology and photography. He studied at the ICP with a scholarship before moving to La Fabrica in 1996. Joan Fontcuberta has described his work as a "balance between critical thinking and a sense of poetic humor."
Fontcuberta writes, "Txema Salvans shows us these scenarios of leisure in post-industrial society, emphasizing their surreal banality and sharpening the feeling of amusing strangeness they produce in us." Salvans presents his projects primarily in book format. His first book "Nice To Meet You" (2005) won the 2015 Photo España award for best photobook. "The Waiting Game" (2014) was awarded as the best Ibero-American photobook. With the publisher RM, he has published the trilogy "The Waiting Game."
With the English publisher Mack, he has published "My Kingdom" and "Perfect Day." Txema Salvans' work has been published by major international media such as Le Monde, Suddeustsche Zeitung Magazine, Stern, New York Times, Welt der Frau, NZZ, Liberation, Monocle, Colors, Big Mag, Vice, Marie Claire, GQ France, Elephen, British Journal of Photography, Wallpaper, ID Magazine, Matador, and El País Semanal. He has recently exhibited his work at the Centre D'Art Contemporani Arts Santa Mònica, the Museum of Contemporary Art Hamburg, the Museum fur Photographie Braunschweig, and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Reina Sofía.
MARIA
DARKROOM
Eduard Sánchez Ribot is a still life photographer born in a small village in Catalonia, currently based between Barcelona and Paris. After graduating as a Multimedia Engineer, he decided to leave his profession to dedicate himself to researching and learning photography in a self-taught manner. His most personal work seeks to represent his inner world while capturing the simplicity and uniqueness of everyday moments.
In a way, seeking answers through his gaze helps him understand who he is. By approaching photography in a deep, delicate, and intense way, he creates ordered compositions that bring him serenity. In 2017, he co-founded the artistic collective Juan Nadie, with which he has carried out various exhibitions and publications.
LEANDRO
FEAL
Leandro Feal (Havana, 1986) is one of the most interesting artists of the young generation of Cuban photographers. His work maintains the intimate character of domestic photography, hence the spontaneity of his compositions and the natural way in which his subjects face the camera.
His work has been exhibited in institutions such as the National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (MNBA), Cuba; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain; the Pérez Art Museum in Miami (PAMM), USA; the Fondation Brownstone, France; and the Atlantic Center of Modern Art, both in Spain, among others. Feal's work is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), USA.
JES LEVY MAGALI
MANAGMENT
MAGALI is an artistic representation agency that works with clients from the world of fashion, beauty, and advertising.
Founded in Berlin, MAGALI represents international photographers, directors, and stylists.
With a personal approach to connecting brands and artists, finding unique ways of interpretation, and expanding dialogues within an extensive network of contacts, MAGALI's representation work operates beyond the conventional.