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Opening of the International Photography Festival 2015 with the exhibition Camera of wonders.
October 30, 2015"We inaugurated the Centro de la Imagen in May 1994 and we do it again in October 2015 confirming its tradition as the great house of the Mexican photographers." Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, president of the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA), said the above at the opening of the Festival Photo Mexico 2015, which marks a new stage in the most important exhibition dedicated to the image in Latin America and which its first phase of rehabilitation was completed with an investment of 20 million pesos.
The head of Conaculta celebrated that 25 years after the opening of one of the most important centers of the continent dedicated to photography, its mission goes on, revalued and with renewed energy to disseminate the work of artists of the image through Photo Mexico, where 500 photographers with 130 exhibitions in 122 offices and 21 Mexican states participate.
In the presence of Itala Schmelz, director of the Centro de la Imagen (Image Center); Elena Navarro, director of Mexico Photo 2015; Agustín Coppel, collector; Devon Bella and Jens Hoffman, Rafael Tovar said that the Centro de la Imagen is a space for a photographic community that after 20 years has a new way to look and new tools to disseminate photography.
In addition to the international exhibition Camera of wonders, which opens the festival and features images of Tina Modotti, Gabriel Orozco, Brassai, Barbara Kasten, Enrique Metinides, Simon Starling and Sarah Conaway, among others, Photo Mexico will present new exhibitions with the work of Frank Mason, the Archivo Casasola, Alberto García Alix, Nacho López, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Paul Strand, Fernando Montiel Klint, Ola Lanko, Cándida Hoffer, Julia Margaret Cameron, Patricio Guzmán, Ricardo Salazar, Laurence Rasti and Nicholas Nixon, covering a journey from the beginning of the photographic image to the contemporary.
During the inaugural tour of the exhibition and the refurbished facilities of the Centro de la Imagen, Itala Schmelz, its director, said that the work of workshops, exhibitions and dissemination of photopraphy will continue, returning its tradition as a watershed to the building, antenna and meeting point for creators, researchers and photography lovers looking to keep up on new aesthetic and discursive searches of photographers both from Mexico and abroad.
Elena Navarro, director of the festival, explained that the Red de la Imagen which was formed through a call launched for the first edition of Photo Mexico, not only received hundreds of proposals of photographers, but from collections, museums, cultural centers, galleries and public places which together are a sign of force that photography has in Mexico, also as an expression that has portrayed the history, traditions and key social moments of our nation.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
