BIO
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Javier Talavera, born in 1988 in Madrid, has a master’s degree in contemporary photography and is a telecommunications engineer, a combination that has defined his artistic practice and methodology.
Focused on the relationship between our body and its representation, his work revisits the portrait genre from multiple and non-fixed approaches to what we are, working around principles of representation close to the anonymous.
His approaches promote and encourage critical and reflective analysis of the images that surround us, taking a contemporary and multidisciplinary perspective in his material and conceptual developments.
Exhibitions and recognitions:
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​2025 *programmed Solo exhibition Royal Photographic Society Madrid (Spain)
2025 *programmed Solo exhibition Experimental Photo Festival Barcelona (Spain)
2024 Solo exhibition Vintage photo festival (Poland)
2024 Winner Emergentes II AFTM (Spain)
2024 Group exhibition REVELA’T festival (Spain)
2024 Group exhibition XXV jornadas fotograficas Aracena (Spain)
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2023 Selected for portfolio viewing Art Photo Bcn (Spain)
2023 Residency of Creation and Photographic Experimentation REVELA'T 23 (Spain)
2023 Exhibition, Rotterdam Photo '23 (Netherlands)
2023 Promoted by "ITmakES Art" for Descubrimientos Photoespaña 23 (Spain)
2023 Exhibition "Almudena" Photo festival Mirades 23 (Spain)
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2022 Nominee for Carte Blanche program Paris Photo 22 (France)
2022 Shortlist Getxophoto 23 (Spain)
2022 Exhibition, Contemporary landscape CICA (South Korea)
2022 Dummy Shortlisted Carta Bianca Dorso Press (Italy)
2022 Longlisted Format Festival (UK)
2022 Winner III Casa (Spain)
2022 Dummy Shortlisted Fiebre Photobook (Spain)
2022 Exhibition, Sala FUJIFILM Efti (Spain)
2022 Finalist EX+S 22 (Spain)
2022 Exhibition, Somos Cómplices Gallery (Spain)
2022 Exhibition individual CasaFilete (Spain)
2022 Herri Partaidetza Getxophoto 22 (Spain)
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2021 Selected for portfolio viewing FIFV Valparaíso (Chile)
2021 Selected for portfolio viewing Photoespaña 21 (Spain)
2021 Selected for portfolio viewing MAPS Getxophoto 21 (Spain)
2021 Exhibition “Remain” Espacio Cómplices Gallery (Spain)
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2020 Honorable Mention ON photo Festival (Spain)
2020 Selected for portfolio viewing Fiebre Photobook (Spain)
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2019 Selected for portfolio viewing BEphoto (Spain)
2018 Selected for portfolio viewing ONG, Organización Nelson Garrido (Venezuela)
2018 Exhibition “Cuadernos Vallekanos” (Spain)
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2017 Exhibition “Vortice” (Spain)
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Publications & art fairs:
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2023 "The Annihilation of Space and Time" - Catalogue Zerofeedback (Japan)
2023 Autozine Fest 2 (Spain)
2023 Libros Mutantes 20th aniversary (Spain)
2022 CAPTION Magazine Issue 18 (Chile)
2022 Fiebre Photobook (Spain)
2022 Exposición colectiva Art Battalion (Spain)
2022 Art&techno festival of arts (Spain)
2022 Museo efímero ROCART II (Spain)
2022 Recreo Art Book Fair (Spain)
2022 Autozine Fest 1 (Spain)
2022 Libros Mutantes (Spain)
2022 Fanzine "Obra obra", 1º edition "Ediciones la mosca"
2022 "Me lo dijo la montaña" 1º edition "Gimmefive.wtf", 4x re-prints
2022 Comtemporary art fair - Hybrid Art Fair (Spain)
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Studies:
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2021-2022 Master in contemporary photography *Prize 1st Promotion, EFTI (Spain)
2020 Creativity and strategies in contemporary photography with Javier Vallhonrat (Spain)
2019 Cinematographic lighting applied to photography, EFTI (Spain)
2017-2019 CASA project monitoring with Oscar Monzón and Antonio Xoubanova (Spain)
2007-2013 Telecommunications engineering (Spain, Poland)
For copies, queries or projects you can write me by email or direct message on Instagram :)
EMAIL: contactjaviertalavera@gmail.com
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IG: @javier.talavera_
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