JORDI OLIVER

 

 Barcelona 1966. His first project began during the early 90s when he photographed Barcelona’s rapidly disappearing Barrio Xino. The photos were made into his first book, entitled 08001 (1999) with texts by Cesar Muñoz  y  Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In 1994 he won a Fotopres grant from La Caixa Foundation to study at the International Center of Photography in New York. He began collaboration on the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia’s Magazine, publishing photo-reportages such as 55 DAYS IN BELGRADE (1998), CIRQUE DU SOLEIL (1999) and  UNDER THE BRIDGE (1995), a portrait of an evicted gipsy family condemned to live under a bridge for eight months for non-payment of rent.

 His documentary-style vision became popular in the advertising world and he worked on graphic campaigns for Martini, Telefonica’s Movistar, among others, winning various advertising awards.

  In 2000 while doing a Masters in documentary at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, he met director Joaquim Jordá, who gave him the chance to work as camera operator on his documentary DE NIÑOS. The following year he made his first documentary in Cuba, SE TRANCÓ EL DOMINO (2003). A second grant from La Caixa Foundation took him to Argentina to shoot a country in the midst of a corruption crisis. His report was called RECUPEREMOS EL TRUEKE (2003)

 (BRING BACK BARTERING).

 Incensed by the growing speculation of property development in Barcelona, he exhibited an audio-visual at the Centre de Cultura Contemporànea in Barcelona, entitled D´OBLITS (2004), the culmination of three years’  work capturing in photo everything that politicians and corrupt mayors and constructors were destroying. The pictures are silent and for the first time, peopleless.

  Through Yamuna, a foundation working with abandoned mothers and children in Madagascar, he photographed their daily activities in the school-farm, MADAGASCAR(2006). This was the starting point for his current project,  LESSONS (2006), with the central theme being education. In 2006 he also travelled to MUMBAI where he photographed a Manos Unidas project to set up the Girls’ City. Afterwards he went to DAKAR (2006) where he photographed another project, created by Madame Cissé, called THE CITY OF WOMEN.

His latest work, AFRICAN REQUEST(2007) is a documentary about the World Social Forum which took place in Nairobi, Kenya in January this year. The film intermingles the moving image with the static. 

 

 
 
 
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