PHOTOJOURNALISM, TESTIMONY AND MEDIA
By Pepe Baeza
29.03.2022
At 7 p.m.
With Jordi Ribot i Puntí, photographer, director in ICONNA and lecturer in photography at the UVIC Facultat d'Empresa i Comunicació.
Imatge: Javier Bauluz Playa de Zahara de los Atunes (Cádiz), September 2, 2000
Coinciding with the neo-liberal offensive of the late 1970s, the processes of media concentration placed the main media groups in the hands of the financial world and large business complexes, including the industrial-military. Eyewitness photography that testified to the significant socio-political reality suffered attack from all angles; the lack of plurality, implicit censorship, the devaluation of its works by aesthetic thinkers, restrictive legislation, and the economic and symbolic undervaluing of photo-journalistic production; all these conditions have brought us to a point that, with the help of the audience, we will attempt to describe.
Pepe Baeza (Valencia, 1955). Journalist, photographer and graphic editor. PhD in Information Sciences (UAB, 1999). Lecturer in Photojournalism, Theory and Technique of Photography and Photographic Genres at the UAB Faculty of Communication Sciences (1989-2013). Lecturer in Reporting and Photography at the UPF Faculty of Communication (2013-2015). Photographer at El Periódico de Catalunya (1978-1981 and 1983-1990). Editor-in-Chief of Graphic Editing at La Vanguardia (1990-2015). Author of the book Por una función crítica de la fotografía de prensa, Gustavo Gili, 2001 and 2003 (2nd edition). Currently coordinator of the "Images" section at Le Monde Diplomatique in Spanish.
