A few minutes after entering Txema's house I could already see that we speak the same language, and that it was going to be a profitable session. Txema has very clear ideas and explains them with enthusiasm, whether in conversation or, above all, with his photographs. He masterfully documents the dystopia in which we are already immersed, with a touch of humor, but also of mischief. His work is, without a doubt, a valuable document of the times we are living in.
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Txema Salvans (Barcelona, 1971) is a Catalan photographer who, for the past two decades, has developed a documentary and artistic approach outside the standard photojournalist platforms, including photoessay.
Joan Fontcuberta has described his work as a “balancing critical thinking with a poetic sense of humor”. His book project Nice To Meet You (2005) received the 2015 Photo España award for the best photobook. The Waiting Game (2014) explores the necessity of desire and prostitution along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain and was awarded as the best Iberoamerican photobook.
My Kingdom was published by MACK in 2018. Perfect Day is the latest project published by MACK.
Txema Salvans' work has been published by leading international media including Le Monde, Suddeustsche Zeitung Magazine, Stern, New York Times, Welt der Frau, NZZ, Liberation, Monocle, Colors, Big Mag, Vice, Marie Claire, GQ France, Elephen, Britsh Journal of Photography, Wallpaper, I-D Magazine, Matador and El País Semanal.
He has recently exhibited his work at Centre D'Art Contemporani Arts Santa Mònica, Museum of Contemporary Art Hamburg, Museum fur photographie Braunschweig and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Reina Sofía.
