Alvaro Calvo
Huesca, España
Currently he lives and works in Huesca combining his freelance work to several mass media companies and
institutions with his own personal projects.
His photos are published in the main Spanish mass media such as; El País , El Mundo, and La Vanguardia. In
2015 he was the winner of the international competition Emerging Talent Award 2015 of Lensculture with
his work in process Unanswered.
In 2013 and 2015 he was also a finalist in Descubrimientos Photoespaña. He has been given The Antonio
Saura´s grant in 2015 that is awarded by the council of Huesca for the formation of new artists which
allowed him to develop his Photoespaña Master. He has also developed different artistic projects apart from
being awarded with the photography’s grant of the Santa Maria de Albarracín foundation ( Spain).
He carries out workshops and seminars with relevant figures such as; Javier Vallhonrat, Jem Southam , Sergio
Mah and Thomas Dworzak among many others.
His work is included in the book: Thirty Contemporary photographers From Today, published by “ La Fabrica”
( Spain in 2015 and also in the collections of Alliance Francaise in Spain and the provincial council of
Huesca).
In 2015 he had several exhibitions where it should be pointed out that he participated in two collective
exhibitions in Photoespaña`s festival and in the exhibition of Emerging Talents Awards in the Camera Work
Gallery in San Francisco ( USA).
2016 - Nominated Unseen Talent Award, 2015 - LensCulture Emerging Talent Winner, 2015 - Finalist of Descubrimientos Photoespaña, 2014 - Santa Maria de Albarracín foundation´s grant, 2013 - Finalist of Descubrimientos Photoespaña
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