RGB PHOTOGRAPHIC CULTURE, a cultural management initiative from Alicante directed by photographers Carlos Balsalobre and David Santacruz, presents the contemporary photography magazine RGB Magazine #07 'HER'.

The event will launch a series of actions aimed at revitalizing Alicante's cultural landscape and promoting citizen participation around contemporary photography. These actions consist of an exhibition and a series of parallel activities (guided tours, lectures, children's workshops and concerts) that will take place at the Municipal Arts Center of Alicante, during the month of February 2025.

With the eleven new additions in this edition, there are 188 photographers from the Province of Alicante who have participated to date in one of the magazines published by RGB photographic culture.

The RGB Magazine #07 'HER' project has been selected in the 2024 public call for subsidies for the development of cultural and artistic projects by the Culture Department of the Alicante City Council.

RGB Magazine #07 'HER'

The contributions of the participating authors through public call have made possible the production of the seventh issue of RGB Magazine. A total of 119 authors submitted 198 photographs, of which 62 works were selected. The proposed theme 'HER' has generated as many creative responses as there are perspectives expressed by the selected authors.

Multidisciplinary artist Pepa Marhuenda is the guest author in RGB Magazine #07 'HER'. In this issue she presents her most recent and unpublished photographic series titled Teenager. A work that moves between sculpture and photography, whose nexus is a barbed wire that acts as an ambivalent object, both physical and conceptual. At the magazine presentation she will be accompanied by the Associate Professor of Artistic Education at the University of Valencia, AMPARO ALONSO-SANZ, with whom she will dialogue about her career.

During the presentation, harpist Alba Asensi will perform live an original work composed especially to accompany the projection of the works that make up the magazine.

The iconic Aural Gallery of Alicante, one of the great institutions of our city's artistic landscape in recent decades, is the entity collaborating in this issue 7. Straddling recognition and tribute, we wished to capture in our pages the intense and constant effort of this art gallery that has carried the name of Alicante far beyond our borders.

The 'HER' design of the magazine cover is by Alicante designer María Cano.

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Thinking about the process with the objective of photographic practice.

The immediacy of the click in a context of global overproduction is forcing artistic practice to review the processes on which photographic heritage is built.

Today, the creative process is understood as a method, a preparation, or a connection with critical thinking. Without this focus that redirects importance toward the process, photography, increasingly, finds itself immersed in doubt about the overproduction of images and visual culture without reflection.

By objectifying its value, thinking about the process offers an opportunity to solve problems based on creative experience. This willingness puts current photographic languages at the service of artistic practices that, in one way or another, propose non-linear processes or narratives, capable of challenging current concepts of space and time.

For all these reasons, from BEPHOTO we want to open a space for dialogue and reflection through proposals that analyze these issues and help add richness toward greater chronodiversity.

Program

Mitar Terzic

Screening and talk

Chat with Félix

23/03/23 at 18:00h.

Antonio Guerra and Carolina Diego

Conference

Creative processes in residence projects for the FOTO program. Aterriza Creative Residencies Las Cigarreras

24/03/23 at 18:00h.

Manuela Lorante, Alex Domenech and Paula Ártes

Conference How do we approach the process in a photographic project?

25/03/23 at 18:00h

RG Magazine #05 Presentation and projection of all photographs featured in the magazine.

Photobook club is an activity where different authors present their proposals and photographic works edited in author's photolithographs.

On this occasion Javier Serrano – Paulina De La Casa – jorge Lidiano and Gabriel Diaz will present their works on Thursday, March 24 at 18:00hrs, in the Auditorium of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante.

Digital society produces an exponential infinity of photographs, which demands that the photographic discipline conduct rigorous analysis from educational, social, and professional perspectives.

Today, the blurred boundaries of photographic action make reflection from a multiple and multidisciplinary perspective essential, one that proposes a new photographic culture. For this reason, since 2018 the BEPHOTO congress has investigated critical discussion about the creative, aesthetic, and conceptual processes of contemporary imagery. Processes that are marked both by the artistic action they represent, as well as by the spaces of participation where they are produced, which opens up countless possibilities that demonstrate the mutability and adaptability of the medium.

BEPHOTO International Congress of Contemporary Photography, was born as a satellite initiative of PHOTOALICANTE International Photography Festival that seeks to establish links between academic reflection and professional and artistic praxis.

Selfie (from the English word self, 'auto' or 'oneself') is a term used to refer to photographs or videos that a person takes of themselves, alone or in company, generally with mobile phones, tablets or webcams.

And from this, we make art. Don't you believe it? You just have to browse through this video that the participants of the MACA Parking Club 2018 project carried out jointly and, above all, "plural", conducted by Extrarradio. Because any excuse is good to let yourself go, to flow, to create...

But don't stay looking from the other side!

Take a SELFIE in a place in your house that tells something about you, share it with us at the email comunicacion@maca-alicante.es or on Instagram @macaalicante and with all the ones received and, above all, "plural" we will put together a PLURAL SELFIE – NOT WITHOUT MY MOBILE

MACA ParkingClub Action. "Plural Selfie-Not Without My Mobile" by Ester García and Juan Diego Cerdá from Extrarradio.

Project selected in the Call for cultural mediation projects CERCLES of the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community.

For seven editions, from 2012 to 2018, the Museum held a photography contest coinciding with International Museum Day. In it, anyone who wished was invited to take a photo, alone or accompanied, in front of or inside the museum. The winning photo will be selected according to the following criteria:

◦ Originality of the location and pose or framing

◦ Dynamism and enthusiasm of the people posing in the photograph

◦ Creativity

The MACA will allow photographs to be taken from April 14 to May 14, 2015. For reasons beyond the organization's control, and according to indications from the Obra Social Caja Mediterráneo, the works belonging to the Caja Mediterráneo Collection cannot be photographed. When taking photographs, the museum's rules must be respected and care should be taken not to disturb its operation. Participation can be individual or collective. Photographs of an obscene, violent, dangerous, racist nature, against public order, likely to harm the sensitivity of minors or violate the dignity of persons are not admitted.

There is no age limit to participate, but the competition will be divided into two categories according to the age of participants; two junior (up to 16 years old) and two senior (up to 99) which will be chosen by a specialized jury and followers on Facebook and Twitter respectively.

Additionally, this year we have included an option for all those Instagram users. All participants who wish to do so must upload their photos with the hashtag #Soloporestavez4 and share it on the museum's profile (macaalicante).

A space has been arranged, a small stage that should be used as an individual, family or group Photocall. The public will upload the photographs to the social networks enabled for this purpose.

It is the photography contest that MACA launched in 2012 in order to allow photographing any aspect of the museum: artworks, spaces, people, activities, etc. during a short period of time. Over these 10 years we have collected more than 900 photographs that best illustrate how the museum is felt by those who inhabit it and enjoy it, our most loyal public. We have selected a series of 120 images available on the museum's website and social networks so that you can choose your preferred images.