“Tales of Liquerique” is the first exhibition where both photographers, Carlos Conde and Mónica Riveiro, work together.

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Mónica has been involved in photography since she was 18. She has been a professional since 2000, working mainly in social and portrait photography in her own studio. Beyond her professional endeavours, her personal projects take place in the streets. She uses black and white, dynamic and evocative, to express emotions. Backlighting scenes, intriguing solitary silhouettes and extreme black and white are the main aesthetical features of her images.

 

Carlos worked as a civil servant, but his true passion is photography. In the last few years, he has used street photography as a means of artistic expression, applying wide angle lenses in close proximity to people.

 

This is where their paths crossed.

 

This exhibition centres around urban spaces as a microcosm where people escape from everyday life, submerged in their thoughts, gazing at the horizon, listening to the rumbling sea.

 

These 45 pictures have a common storyline: old age, loneliness, sunset strolls, leisure, friendship and family. One of these urban spaces is “Punta de Liquerique”.

 

Day to day life ebbs and flows from this dock, in the Northern Spanish city of Gijón. Every day sees new stories, as well as the old ones. Two photographers make up stories and end up becoming part of them.

 

First they do so on their own, but finally, by chance, they come together in the same project.

 

They build stories from two different points of view and each viewer has to fill them with life. There are two codes: deep black and white, and a wide range of grey. Two different ways of creating an atmosphere for their characters.

 

The photographs that open the exhibition are the crossroads of this plot: they are quite similar but, at the same time, they are polar opposites. One has a dramatic gaze, with high contrasts and surrounded by “negative space”; the other shows the main character encircled by “positive open space”, and full of light

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