The project "Andalusian" was launched in 2002 and it involves eight photographers ¹ , Sponsored by the approach and suggestions of John Bosco of Urmeneta Diaz, coordinator of the entire project. In overall approach was to work on the image that the eight photographers were on the Andalusian and its surroundings, to condense into a single common story.
The position with which each of us we were facing the job was obviously influenced by our imagination photographic techniques that manejábamos and what we received from the commissioner. I found myself faced with a type of atypical assignment as the technical work which is traditionally the optical bench, plus I'm not a reporter or work regularly with people, so it had to begin to devise a strategy to tackle the job.
I preferred to find a way to return the favor and I do somehow already knew what they do, so I acted more like a screenwriter and a locator field, which as a reporter, camera in hand looking at right time to shoot. Fabricated characters in my head that I think were a mixture of what I want my countrymen and I see them. Later the mission was to locate outside to locate these people, a task that was the most laborious of all. In any case, there was a mixture of uncertainty before raising my job, as was the scenario which would mark the first meaning of my character Andalusian and was himself which would seek to build the punctum ² of the image. With this approach I began the work that was negative in 20 plates in black and white, which shot about 10 plates per scene. The work will be completed in about fourteen months and I have to confess that it has not yet finished, moreover, continues to grow in an incubator and I hope one day return to teach a more complete collection. The copies that were thrown on paper RC format 50 × 50 are part of the merits of the Copts and have been used in duplicate to the exhibitions.
This assignment helped me deal with the topics to weigh any region as a yoke, but also to observe and group together to discover that the reality is just a way of looking. This is mine.
In the first surprise of being able to work on a joint project with great photographers and veterans joined the wide spread and impact of the exhibition. In fact the photographs have been present in Utrecht (Netherlands) , Guadalajara (Mexico) and of course in Spain, Seville, Cadiz, Antequera, Cordoba, Almeria, Huelva, Jaen, Motril, Malaga and Sanlucar de Barrameda.
After all this outreach is a key driver composed of individuals who make up the Publications Service of the Ministry of Public Works ³ , Who worked on each phase of the project with equal or even greater illusion, that the eight photographers and authors of the catalog and exhibition. Valga the result as evidence of a coral project in which everyone did at the time what we knew to do better.
It is also impossible now to see the collective work of the "Andalusian" without thinking of my fellow Atina Aya, to which I was lucky enough to know during labor. Atina died on Sept. 16, 2007, and meetings around the exhibition will be marked by its absence unjust.
For those not familiar with the photographic work of human and rightly Here you have links who speak of him and show part of his work.

Atina Aya, photographed by Paul Juliá.

HEADQUARTERS OF EXPOSURE:

Library of Andalusia in Granada

c / Professor Sainz Cantero, 6

INAUGURATION OF THE EXHIBITION:

Thursday June 12 2008 at 20:00

DATE AND TIME OF EXPOSURE:

From June 13 to July 4, 2008

Monday through Friday from 10 to 14h. and from 17 to 21h.

PREVIOUS VENUES:

Utrecht (Netherlands) , GUADALAJARA (Mexico) , SEVILLE, ANTEQUERA, ALMERÍA, Sanlucar de Barrameda, HUELVA, CADIZ, ÚBEDA, MOTRIL, Cordoba (Spain)

NEXT SITES:

MADRID (Spain) NEW YORK (USA), Jaén (Spain), Havana (Cuba).

See projection of photographs

1. Javier Andrada, Atina Aya, Vicente del Amo, Pablo Juliá, Siquier Carlos Perez, Jose Luis Roca, Gloria Rodriguez and myself [ again ]
2. term use of reading Roland Barthes in his "Camera Lucida" [ again ]
3. Ana Flores, Jose Manuel Fernandez, Maria Trócoli and one more likely to forget, in addition to the first promoter of the whole idea: Damian Alvarez Chamber. [ again ]