cristina de middel

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About

Cristina De Middel is a Spanish-Belgian 
photographer born in Alicante in 1975.

After 10 years as a photojournalist, Cristina De Middel shifted her practice 
to a more conceptual approach in order to question the documentary value 
of photography. In 2012 she produced the acclaimed series The Afronauts, triggering a decade of work around the role of photography in creating stereotypes. Besides her prolific career as an author, and as an active member of the photography community, Cristina has been invited to curate festivals like Lagos Photo, PhotoEspaña, and San José Photo in Uruguay. She has published more than 14 photobooks and her work is constantly on show in different institutions and venues. Cristina is also on the board of Vist Projects, a platform to support Latin American visual story-telling and she is a member of Magnum Photos agency and its president since 2022.

Education

2002
MA in Photojournalism
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

2001
MA in Fine Arts
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

2000
MA in Photography
University of Oklahoma
PROMOE Scholarship, EEUU

Awards

2024
Finalist of the DeutscheBoerse Prize for Photography
London, UK

2023
Winner of ‘Premios Periodisticos Comunidad Valencia’ for Professional Trajectory
Valencia, Spain

2020
Winner of the Prix Virginia
Finalist of the Leica Oskar Barnak Award

2017
National Prize of Photography
Spain

Winner ofthe F.C Barcelona Project Award
Barcelona, Spain

Winner of the LENSCULTURE Portrait Award
USA

2016
Winner of the Greenpeace photography Award
Zurich, Switzerland

2014
Winner ofthe Best Book of the year with “Party”, PhotoEspaña
Madrid, Spain

2012
Winner Infinity Award, best publication for The Afronauts, ICP
New York, USA

Finalist ofthe Deutsche Boerse Prize for Photography
London, UK

Winner of the Photo Folio Review, Rencontres de la Photographie
Arles, France

2º Prize in the Sony World Photography Awards
London, UK

2011
Winner of the Lightside/Humble Arts grant
New York, USA

Exhibitions

Colecction Banco de Sabadelli
Spain

DeutscheBörse Foundation
Germany, acquisition in 2020

Tate Modern
London, acquisition in 2017

Collection of the Generalitat Valenciana
Spain

Archive of Modern Conflict
Canada and UK

MUN – Museo de la Universidad de Alicante
Spain

MACE – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo 
de Ibiza
Spain

Presence in Collections

Colecction Banco de Sabadelli
Spain

DeutscheBörse Foundation
Germany, acquisition in 2020

Tate Modern
London, acquisition in 2017

Collection of the Generalitat Valenciana
Spain

Archive of Modern Conflict
Canada and UK

MUN – Museo de la Universidad de Alicante
Spain

MACE – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo 
de Ibiza
Spain

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Silva Text / Blackletra
Work Sans / Google


site design

marina rigolleto


web development

sarah matos


executive production

moood.cc

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In a society with generalized attention deficit disorder, the way the News is presented to us has to mutate into digestible pills of information that are simplified and polarized in order to fit the headline or the hashtag. It is precisely now, when we are more complex, hybrid, interconnected as individuals than ever, that the language we rely on to stay updated has become more limited and limiting. Nowadays, with an unmanageable amount of information available, and in the always difficult balance between quantity and quality, it seems like we chose the worst of both.

In the series “Fun Facts” I play with this manner of presenting information and combine it with photographic still-lives that take the viewer into deeper layers of the language where symbolism and visual association enter the construction game of the meaning. In an attempt to return its lost complexity and to challenge the audience for higher visual literacy, I propose a combination of text and image that leaves the doors open for opinion, understanding and imagination, the pillars of learning together with raw information.

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