BFoto

It seems like yesterday and it’s been almost two years since covid. During this time, BFoto has continued, resilient and tenacious, with proposals that allow the coexistence of emerging photography and public spaces. Through citizen participation, unusual forms of photographic exhibition or teaching activities, an interesting photographic immersion is promoted that discovers, questions and seduces the city of Barbastro. The festival also proposes betting on a holistic vision of culture in which music, literature or cinema also have a place, seeking those symbiotic relationships that enhance the r ē s p ū blica, building synergies and opening new paths. Despite everything, and even conditioned in the programming by the health situation, some proposals have been postponed while others have been reinforced, seeking to ensure that photography continues to be the cultural protagonist of the month of August.

We already know you don’t, but only yachts, beaches without coolers and sunsets in Halong Bay are posted on social media. The industrialization of narcissism has consequences that photography documents, what can we do? However, photography is much broader and more complex, it is the exclusive territory of that visual narration in which silence for reflection is decided by the viewer, the space where the gaze faces a time held hostage by an image or the place in which the hidden and the unintelligible become visible.

But this festival is about emerging photography, not silly ones. Emergent: that is not immersive, inattentive or dissident, although it can be barbiponiente, concupiscent and iridescent. A commitment to those works that have not yet had exhibition channels. People who believe in what they do and want to tell about it. And in addition to being able to be seen in the usual places, it will also be on the street: it is appropriate that what has been made to be shown can be found without going to look for it, turning everyone into a spectator of a look at the world that raises questions , discover secrets or simply destroy your life. It would be well if, on the way to those places where you practice pernicious activities that incline the body to softness and the mind to debauchery, you stop to contemplate the jobs that you will find in the street and,