Exhibitions
The Casa de Cultura hosts two exhibitions from the Visa pour l'Image festival
Two views of international photojournalism come to Girona with Visa pour l'Image: historical trajectories and contemporary reality in Afghanistan.
From June 11 to September 19, 2026, the Girona Provincial Council House of Culture hosts two simultaneous exhibitions, as part of the collaboration they have maintained since ago more of one decade with INSPAI, Center from the Image from the Provincial Council from Girona, and the Center International du Photojournalisme of Perpignan. This alliance makes it possible to bring to Girona every year one selection of exhibitions of the festival Visa for the Image, that if celebrates annually in Perpignan in September.
The first exhibition, "Jean-Pierre Laffont: Photographer without ties", reviews the career of one of the great names in international photojournalism. Laffont began his career during the Algerian War, but it was in the United States where he developed most of his his/her work. The headquarters work document the years key from the decades of the sixty, seventy and eighty, the figures that they go mark the history and the arts from that one period, and the changes global events that transformed the world at the turn of the new millennium. The exhibition includes long-term projects, among which his report on child slavery stands out.
The second exhibition, "Afghanistan: In the Shadow of the White Flags", is the work of photographer Sandra Calligaro and documents the situation of the Afghan population since the return to power. of the Taliban, ago four years. The work if center especially in the women, deprived of access to secondary education and excluded from a large part of public, work and social spaces. The exhibition has the support of the National Center for Visual Arts, Brouillon d'un Rêve de la SCAM and the La Cultura amb la Còpia Privada (Culture with Private Copy) initiative.
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