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Place of Birth: León, Castile and León, Spain
About Alberto García-Alix
- Alberto García-Alix (born 1957) is a Spanish photographer from León, Spain.
- A National Photography Award winner in 1999,El honor de las injurias (2007), a documentary film about Felipe Sandoval. His work has reached different countries and has been praised by publications such as Vogue, British Journal of Photography or Vanity Fair.
- A motorcycle and portrait lover, his Leica and Hasselblad cameras have immortalized important national and international artists.
- He has always been inspired by bikes, tattoos, music and the night.He defines his portraits as a confrontation with his own model.
- Garcia-Alix is one of the leading figures of the movement known as La Movida Madrileña leaving behind well-known and powerful images of this cultural movement's youth.
- Among its members are some of his friends, who subsequently have become renowned personalities in different fields: Pedro Almodóvar, Rossy de Palma, Emma Suárez, Camarón de la Isla and many others. Often violently shameless, his works are recurrently raw and naked portraits.
- They are often considered to be overreactions but their expressive power and graphic effectiveness is undeniable. García-Alix has devoted his entire career to black and white photography as personal and social documentation.
- Since his long stays in France and China in 2007 and 2008, he has been experimenting with video by documenting his images accompanied by his own texts and voice.
- An example of his video-art was showcased at it his exhibition De donde no se vuelve (2008) at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.
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