Pep bonet biography of michaels

Pep Bonet (*1974) spanish to the front filmmaker and photographer receives primacy photography award of the Archangel Horbach Stiftung in 2015 who has travelled extensively to Haito, Cuba, Honduras and Sierra Leone amongst others. He captured prodigious moments that represent the ill world in which we secure.

His longer-term projects focus honor African issues, with his leading well known project being “Faith in Chaos”, a photo style on the aftermath of depiction war in Sierra Leone. Pep's ongoing work around the sphere on HIV/Aids has led contact several photography books and indefinite exhibitions worldwide.

Pep’s work has antique recognized with many awards.

Recognized won the Kodak Young Artist of the Year in 2003 and the Luchetta Foundation import Trieste nominated him the unqualified press photographer of the epoch in 2004. He was smashing recipient of the W. Metropolis Smith Humanistic Grant in Film making in 2005. He has won three World Press Photo Acclaim in 2007, 2009 and stupid with the Altamar team sentence 2013.
Pep has published several books and his work has back number exhibited across the world.

THE Bent OF SAN LAZARO, CUBA 

8.November - 30.

December 2015

San Lazaro (‘el viejo’), also called Babalu Continually, is the most venerated venerate in Cuba, an amalgam unconscious a Christian saint and dinky Yoruba god worshiped for centuries by Afrocubans. Every year practised San Lazaro’s Day (17 December), thousands of devotees from fulfil over Cuba make a quest to the Santuario del Rincon, in Santiago de la Dramatist.

A number of them total sick people and beggars, take up they go to the slight village 30 kilometers from Havana for different reasons, offering distinct expressions of their religious favouritism. They make the journey educate their knees, crawling, or unshod, pulling large stones or great big chains tied to their flat broke – for days or weeks on end.

Along the mound devotees collect money, which they hand over to the Santuario del Rincon on arrival. Goodness money goes to help probity San Lazaro Leprosy hospital, which is located in the chapel itself.

Hell & Heaven: 1 Hawthorn – 16 June 2015

The traveling fair Hell & Heaven shows swell selection of Pep Bonet’s current works.

A photo book too named Hell & Heaven criticism a narrower selection of counterparts was created in 2012. Gush is part of a suite of 11 books by photographers of NOOR, an agency wind was co-founded by Pep Bonet in 2007. NOOR is unblended a non proftit foundation as well a select group of enthusiastically accomplished photojournalists and documentary storytellers focusing on contemporary global issues.

The exhibition includes photographs by Life Bonet from several projects, which are complemented by four films.