Photographer's Profile

Ángel j Aánchez

angeljsanchez, Spain

Bachelor’s Degree in ICTs and Advertising from the UPV-EHU, University of the Basque Country. My life has always been linked to photography in one way or another. Thanks to my work for several advertising agencies, I have had the opportunity of collaborating with great fashion and advertising photographers such as Alejandro Cabrera, Michael Wray, Michael Shelley, Paco Navarro, Toni Riera, etc. from whom I have learnt a great deal and kept feeding my passion. But my interest in photography dates back further into the past. Going back to my childhood, I still recall how I used to play to capture snapshots by simply fixing images on my mind by quickly closing my eyes to retain a moment in memory, taking advantage of the effect of retinal persistence. From 1980 to 1982, I attended courses in analogical photography at the Cultural Association “El Desván” in Bilbao, while completing my university studies. For me, photography is, above all, a way of escaping from a meretricious creativity, and a way of communicating what I truly feel. A way of leaving aside the advertising objectives and urgent demands to go out and look at the world differently, to discover beauty, those things that really move me and shake me up. Something allowing me to develop a very personal vision. Work presented at the Museum of La Rioja: "The doors of time," an exhibition made on the occasion of its reopening. October 2013 Salon d'Automne in Paris. October 2016, 2017,2018,2019,2020,2021 Individual Exhibition at the Photomuseum in Zarautz - June - July 2017. Collective exhibition: "European Contemporary Art" at The National Art Center in Tokyo. Japan. August 2018. Member of the Jury, XI Edition of the Photographic Contest Nature of La Rioja. April 2018. Member of the Jury, I Edition La Rioja Tourism Contest. June 2018. Member of the Jury, XII of the Photographic Contest Nature of La Rioja. April 2019.Currently, the exhibition "Where the Waves Break," financed by the BBK Member “Sociétaire” du Salon d' Automne. Paris. January 2019 Jury XII of the La Rioja Nature Photographic Contest. April 2019 Salon d ’Automne. Paris. October 2019 Collective Exhibition Leica Gallery Madrid December 2020 – January 2021 Finalist HIPA Award Humanity 2020 – 2021 | April 2021 Currently, the exhibitions “Where the waves break” and “Babel” financed by the BBK Foundation and curated by Alejandro Zugaza, is traveling through the main culture halls and city councils of the Basque Country.