FFoco Festival 2024

Since its first edition in 2017, FFoco has already consolidated itself as the essential showcase to learn and understand the current state of documentary photography in Galicia.

Overview

The greatest energy of FFoco lies in the confluence of authors, amateur and professional photographers, citizens and general public. The Festival does not want to miss the opportunity to gather around a good portion of small and big pictures. So, one more year, they invite visitors to join them in this photographic aperitif, which on this occasion will take place in the courtyard of the Luis Seoane Foundation after the foliada of Óscar Górriz.

Projections, exhibitions, presentations, talks, practical workshops and other activities focus every year the program of FFoco, the only festival of its kind in Galicia, which allows a school of contemporary authors to show their work to new audiences. The participation of the public is key in each edition for the development of the festival, since FFoco is conceived at all times as an initiative that everyone can feel as their own. The program includes activities in different formats, all of them free of charge and for audiences of all ages.

Among this year's featured artists are Bandia Ribeira, Sebastián Bruno, Amador Iravedra, Mateo Villalustre and Pablo Luaces.

The transition from the primary to the tertiary sector, starting in this case with tourism in Spain as a paradigm of a worn-out model, is the focus of this session of projections and open table curated by Luis Díaz Díaz. The photographic works of Arantxa Boyero, Manolo Espaliú, Cristina Arribas and Carmelo Vega, Néstor Lisón, Rubén Acosta and Elisa Gallego are the starting point for a subsequent debate on touristification and tourism-phobia, two concepts that were so in vogue last summer in Galicia, with the participation of two architects and urban planners Iago Carro, Íñigo Sánchez and Elisa Gallego.

This activity is completed by the online presentation by Alelí Mirelman of the Casa Planas project, an interdisciplinary center of creation and contemporary interpretation of tourism in the Balearic Islands. The uniqueness of this space is that it holds the most important photographic archive of the history of mass tourism, as it preserves the collection of more than 3 million images of the company Casa Planas, at the time the largest photographic studio in Spain, which was active between the decades of the 40s and 90s of the last century, making social reports, tourist advertising of hotels, aerial photography and posts.

The after party of this edition comes from Robot City, who will close the day with atmospheric music full of breaks with minty and hypnotic passages. Computer music, influenced by sci-fi, electro, techno and pure music, classic and timeless. Robot City are Salvador Rojo (who is in charge of the music) and Caskbel (Vj and video artist), who will mix during the musical session a selection of the photographs that compose the exhibitions of the eighth edition of FFoco.