PHotoEspaña 2007 (PHE07)

PHotoEspaña is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a wideranging programme of exhibitions. The event offers chance to see some of the top names in photography and major group exhibitions

Between May 30 and July 22, PHE07 will be offering more than 60 exhibitions with work by photographers and visual artists from 31 countries. Twenty-six international curators are involved in the programming of this edition Bruce Davidson, Lynn Davis and Sylvia Plachy will all be exhibiting in Spain for the very first time.

The Festival will include retrospectives on the work of Zhang Huan, Andres Serrano and Man Ray. Sebastião Salgado and Raymond Depardon also feature Neorealism. The new image of Italy, 1932-1960; Local. The end of globalisation; and Margins are the major group exhibitions on this year's programme PHotoEspaña will also include work by a new generation of young Spanish photographers at an exhibition of the NOPHOTO Collective and Five European perspectives. Spanish and Latin-American photography (Cinco miradas europeas. Fotografía española e hispanoamericana)

World Heritage Site Cuenca is one of the new Festival venues

For its tenth anniversary, PHotoEspaña will be crossing the border: Le Jeu de Paume gallery is joining the official programme with an exhibition in Paris. The Arles Festival will also be staging an exhibition on Alberto García-Alix, organised by PHotoEspaña

The exhibition rooms of the Teatro Circo Price, the BBVA and the Instituto Cervantes are set to make their Festival début. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Biblioteca Nacional and the Fundación Canal are also taking part in the Official Section PHE Encounters (Encuentros PHE) will bring more than 50 international specialists to Madrid to analyse the present and future of photography. Campus PHE will be organising workshops in Aranjuez with Peter Beard, Isabel Muñoz, Gilles Peress, Anders Petersen, Eugenio Recuenco and others

A particularly special event will also be descending on Madrid's famous arts district, "El Barrio de las Letras". Photography Night will include slide projections and live music in the streets and squares of the Spanish capital

The general catalogue will take the form of a dictionary featuring the 190 artists who have had their own exhibitions over the ten years of the Festival's history

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