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DESCUBRIMIENTOS PHE MADRID CALL FOR ENTRIES OPENS

PHotoEspaña, Madrid’s International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, invites photographers of all nationalities and disciplines to present their work to Descubrimientos PHE.

Descubrimientos PHE is PHotoEspaña’s portfolio review that will take place from June 10 to 12, 2010. The portfolio review offers photographers the opportunity to show their work in individual sessions to eight curators and editors specialized in the field.

A jury will select seventy photographers to participate in the portfolio review, who will also present their work in a collective exhibition at the Complejo El Águila in the Official Section of the Festival and will opt for the Descubrimientos PHE Epson Award, which consists in an individual exhibition in PHotoEspaña 2011.

Some of the reviewers in 2010 are:

Ignacio Andreu – Editor, C Photo Magazine, Madrid

Olivia Gideon Thomson – Director, WE FOLK, London

Markus Hartmann – International Publishing Director, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

Alessandra Mauro – Editorial director, Contrasto, Milan

Yossi Milo – Director, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

James Reid – Photography Editor, Wallpaper, London

Sandra Philips – Senior Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Kathy Ryan – Picture Editor, New York Times Magazine

Agnès Sire – Director, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris

Wim Van Senderen – Curator, The Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague

Marta Ponsa – Director of projects, Jeu de Paume, Paris

Inka Graeve Ingelmann – Head of the Department Photography and New Media, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Call for entries open until Sunday February 7, 2010

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