Photo exhibition by David Pujado – Spanish photographer.
Date: Monday (18th of March) 6:00 pm
Venue: Reggeli, Pécs (23-25. Király street)
Program: Photo exhibition by David Pujado – Spanish photographer. Opening speech: Dr. Domingo Antonio Lilon, docent of Department of Spanish and Ibero-American Studies of the University of Pécs. Guitar: Roy Joel Pérez, UP Faculty of Music and Visual Arts.
After the photo exhibition we can taste the albondigas, the traditional food of the Spanish and we can drink Torres Coronas (2016 vintage) with the food.
As a self-taught photographer, I have educated my eyes by looking at thousands of photographs and by visiting as many exhibitions as possible. The rest has been shooting, shooting and shooting. My weapons are my Pentax and other cameras, mainly analogue ones, though in recent times I have started working in digital format too.
As a photographer, I never look at happiness. I am more drawn to decadence, melancholy and sensations. I am after faces that mirror my soul –that is, if the face is a mirror of the soul…
My preferences? People, architecture, symmetries, black and white.
Montse Ordoñez, a cultural manager from Spain, wrote once about my work:
“David Pujadó likes to move with simplicity and minimalism. His photographs cultivate silence around the image, a task that might appear easy at first glance when in fact it is quite difficult to accomplish. Pujadó knows how to unlock the souls he is looking at. His camera manages to gain access and to penetrate interior territories that are normally inaccessible to most of us. The grey tones of his prints are subtle. With just a few elements he gets us to travel to other worlds inhabited by alienated, lonely gazes. We find ourselves facing one of those beings whose light and talent imbue with soul each one of his images”.
Spanish Filmdays – La novia – The Bride
Apolló Movie Theatre
Two men, one woman, a love, stronger than the law and a wild nature in the background of everything. Leonardo, the bride and the fiancé are an inseparable trio since their childhood, but in addition to this there is a strong, invisible and unbreakable bond between Leonardo and the bride… Years past and the girl is preparing fearfully and unhappily for her wedding in the white and bare salt pan, where her dad lives as well. The day before the ceremony an old beggar woman knocked the her door and gave her a present and an advice: „Don’t get married, if you don’t love him!” – said the old woman and gave her two handfuls of crystals. The bride has been flooded with fright… A beautiful drama with classic tragedy elements and the shadows of Lorca’s plays.
Free entry!
Organiser: Cervantes Institute Budapest, University of Pécs/Centre for Internationalization and Connections, Reggeli Cafe
