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12.29
2011
Roadkill – Coming Soon
…When I first saw a selection of Pep’s work with Motorhead, I realized that every instinct I’d felt had been vindicated. He’d captured the energy, the intensity, the stature and the reverence of the band. He’d found them at their loudest and quietest, funniest and most serious. He’d done what great photographers do and he’d framed Motorhead, this vitally important, iconic steam train of hard ro… Read more
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12.22
2010
HIV&AIDS Generación perdida
Pep Bonet and the Lost Generation
The photographer Pep Bonet has built a universal story that recounts lack and absence, portraits looks and bodies with an identity, and thus it stays with you, written on the walls of the soul. This book is the visual report of a drama without heart-wrenching roar; while being a poetic contemporary tableau, a work of art –with pictures– on every page. Away from morbid curiosity or… Read more -
12.23
2005
Posithiv+
An aids hospice is a place where people go to waste away and 101
die. In South Africa, where a world record 5.2 million people
are infected with hiv/aids and 600 die from the disease every
day, hospices are a growth industry. But the hospice I am at in
Khayelitsha, a vast and dirt-poor township in the Western
Cape, is a place of quiet hope, where people who had resigned
themselves to painful death are being offered the chanc… Read more -
12.22
2007
Photobolsillo
For Pep Bonet, “the worst expectations are those held by people”. The driving force behind this recent arrival on photography’s Olympus is the possibility of living new experiences due to his competitive spirit and constant search for challenges. Born in southem Mallorca, a quiet place with sandbanks that remain untouched, Bonet photographs Africa’s suffering due to its contrast and his complete igno… Read more
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05.22
2007
One Goal
This book shows Pep’s long term project on Sierra Leone’s amputees soccer team. The legacy of Sierra Leone’s civil war (1991-2001) was the use of amputation as a weapon of fear, by both factions. Many of the victims were innocent young men, who were targeted in order to stop them fighting for an opposing side
Through soccer, the youths have regained their pride and self-confidence…
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12.27
2009
17 Milagroso – Babalú Ayé
En los espacios de esclavitud, de sometimiento, se crearon culturas de rebeldía, culturas defensivas; esta característica de la cultura afroamericana la convierte en un elemento de homogeneización pese a todas las variantes regionales y nacionales. Si podemos hablar de cultura afroamericana, pese a la enorme diversidad de representaciones culturales, es porque todas ofrecen, a su vez, rasgos que nos per… Read more
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12.23
2011
watching in silence
Silencio. Hay palabras que se respetan mejor leídas que pronunciadas. Esta es una
de ellas. Me gusta esta palabra porque es el alfa y omega de una obra, la esencia de la
fotografía. Transmite pero no se oye, no hace ruido. Sólo queda la necesidad de mirar
y escuchar. El silencio es lo que hay antes y después de todo lo que hay en medio. La
creación comienza así, callada, sin que nadie la moleste. Después llegan las id… Read more -
12.23
2007
Somalia – The Invisible Trace
Somalia: anarchy, abandonment and oblivion –are the
best words to define it. Without an effective government
for years, a contemporary feudalism has reigned,
the warlords imposing their way of life as the only way
of measuring time. Surviving from day to day is the
only aim, in a place where the clan system prevents
the common good from being more valuable than
private interests. Insecurity banishes any chance
of… Read more -
12.24
2005
Catalogue PositHiv+
An aids hospice is a place where people go to waste away and 101
die. In South Africa, where a world record 5.2 million people
are infected with hiv/aids and 600 die from the disease every
day, hospices are a growth industry. But the hospice I am at in
Khayelitsha, a vast and dirt-poor township in the Western
Cape, is a place of quiet hope, where people who had resigned
themselves to painful death are being offered the chanc… Read more -
12.24
2008
217A – NOOR
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations, in their
resolution 217 A (III), on December 10, 1948.
Francesco Zizola, Jan Grarup, Kadir van Lohuizen, Pep Bonet, Philip Blenkinsop, Samantha Appleton, Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev
and Jon Lowestein. Nine of the best independent photographers in the world (documentary photography / photo-jou… Read more -
12.24
2010
Remarkable South Africans
Writing this book has been a great privilege. It has been a journey, a series of travels across South Africa into the lives of truly inspirational South Africans.
I travelled more than 13 000 kilometres, accompanied by photographer Pep Bonet and his assistant Joan Roig. From the beautiful Mother City of Cape Town to the lush sugar plantations of KwaZulu-Natal. From the bright lights of Sandton and the tough streets o… Read more
