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The Festival wanted to spotlight the everyday efforts of graphic photojournalists, and especially the work of news photographers during the months of lockdown in Spain caused by the first wave in the coronavirus PHotoESPAÑA is granting a Special Prize to Rosa Ros for her commitment to disseminating photography today and her support for this medium The International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, PHotoESPAÑA, has granted the 2020 PHotoESPAÑA Prize to photojournalism because of its extraordinary role in news and society, and especially its coverage of the coronavirus crisis during the lockdown that Spain experienced between March and June 2020.

Between Art and Fashion shows a selection of 166 works by 90 international photographers from the personal collection of the Italian editor Carla Sozzani, a renowned international figure in fashion, art and design The exhibition brings together works by photographers like Richard Avedon, David La Chapelle, Daido Moriyama, Moholy-Nagy, Helmut Newton, Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz and Francesca Woodman, among others According to Sozzani, the exhibition is an invitation to stroll through her life experience, her relationships with great photographers from all over the world, her career in the fashion world and her personal vision of the world, femininity and beauty

The festival will be extended until late September to enable the public to attend the shows in this huge photography and visual arts event The institutions participating in the Festival will join starting in June by opening their shows to the public, depending on their capacity and calendars The kick-off of this year’s edition will be marked by simultaneous openings of the exhibitions from the #PHEdesdemibalcón call for participation in the balconies and windows of Spain #PHEdesdemibalcón is an appeal to citizens’ creativity and artistic exploration; its point of departure is windows and balconies, extraordinarily important places today which have

The Madrid Design Festival Awards aim to recognise the work of outstanding professionals in the design arena and cast the limelight on this discipline. The Awards Ceremony will be held at the venue of the Chartered Institute of Architects in Madrid (COAM) on February 12th. The three award-winners will take part in the MadridDesignPRO professional conference by giving three talks on their sources of inspiration and their own idea of design. Get your ticket for MadridDesignPRO Please send your requests for interviews with the award-winners by e-mail to isabel.cisneros@lafabrica.com The 3rd Madrid Design Festival will recognise the work of industrial

The third annual festival will be held in February 2020. Its programme will include over 250 activities, featuring 66 exhibitions, 12 installations and the participation of over 400 design experts. MDF20 will open on 29th January with two exhibitions: Nature Morte Vivante by Patricia Urquiola and I Work! Because that’s what I’m like, at the Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa venue. The festival will also be featuring Giorgetto Giugiaro, Bruno Monguzzi, Mario Ruiz, Elvis Wesley, Willie Williams, Enorme Estudio, Mayice, Juli Capella, Izaskun Chinchilla, Waugh Thistleton Architects, Oteyza, Francesca Zampollo, Carlos Fontales or Saenz de Oíza and H

PHotoESPAÑA 2019 will take place between 5 June and 1 September Guest curator Susan Bright presents a programme of five exhibitions under the title Déjà vu?, bringing together Elina Brotherus, Clare Strand, Laura Letinsky, Sharon Core, Patrick Pound and Délio Jasse, who take ideas and traditions from the past to create new and contextualised work for the present day A look at collectionism in conjunction with the Lafuente Archive and the collection of the Fundació per Amor a l´Art. Bombas Gens; masters of international photography such as William Klein, Berenice Abbott and Donna Ferrato; work by visual artists such as

The Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa hosted the largest number of visitors in the exhibitions Darro. Design and Art 1959–1979, Careful Design. Contemporary Spanish Crafts and Super-Packaging. Design Serving Design MadridDesignPRO, the festival’s professional programme, brought together renowned professionals like Li Edelkoort, Petrus Palmér, Jan Boelen, Benjamin Hubert and Jaime Hayon for 150 hours of activities at COAM Madrid Design Festival welcomed 105 participating institutions, brands and spaces which hosted 248 activities with the participation of 420 designers and professionals and 66 exhibitions and urban installations The Festival OFF hosted almost twice as many spaces as last edition

Madrid Design Festival Awards, which honour the work of great personas in national and international design, recognises Gaetano Pesce and El Último Grito    Miguel Giner Gutiérrez’s Petra tableware was the project that won the Rado Star Prize Spain 2019, while Coaxal Theorem for Apollonian Objects by Javier Martín Pérez received the Public Choice Award  MINI, with its MINI Design Award, has recognised American landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson, for her Valencia Parque Central project Download images from the gala Last night the Madrid Design Festival Awards ceremony was held at COAM (Official Architects Association of Madrid). With these awards, Madrid

The festival’s second edition will be held during February 2019 with a programme replete with 202 activities, among them 53 exhibitions and 12 installations, bringing together 410 design professionals The festival starts on 1 February with the opening of the exhibitions Darro: Design and Art (1959- 1979); Meticulous design: Contemporary Spanish Crafts; and Super Packaging, Design serving Design, at the Fernán Gómez, Centro Cultural de la Villa Crafts, industrial and product design, fashion, urban planning, graphic design, architecture, illustration, sustainability and technology will be just some of the disciplines present at the festival Music and gastronomy are new features at

PHotoESPAÑA 2018 will take place between 6th of June and 26thof August The international photography and visual arts festival reaches 20 years of life made possible thanks to the faithful support and commitment of public and private collaborators Cristina de Middel encourages spectators to discover the more ludic and experimental facets of photography in Players, a programme with artworks from five continents that includes the participation of Samuel Fosso, Susan Meiselas, and Zhao Renhui, among others Photography and sustainability from the perspective of artists including James Mollison; classic figures in photography such as Cecil Beaton; a complete retrospective of the