MEMORIES OF A LATENT IMAGE III: CONNECTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY. History of Photography Course
This course offers an engaging exploration of how different approaches to photography over recent decades have shaped the current landscape of the medium.
Fuco Reyes presents a personal perspective, using as a guiding thread the work of various photographers whose motivations and intentions converge around themes such as identity, territory, the urban landscape, the body and the face, intimate life, the inexpressive, new documentary photography, the object, and constructed imagery.
PROGRAMME
29 JANUARY. Some unclassifiable perspectives
5 FEBRUARY. Authorship, reproduction, and appropriation
19 FEBRUARY. Identities: the face and the body I
26 FEBRUARY. Identities: the face and the body II
5 MARCH. New documentary I
12 MARCH. New documentary II
26 MARCH. The urban landscape
9 APRIL. Intimate life
16 APRIL. Territory
23 APRIL. The inexpressive
30 APRIL. The object
7 MAY. Constructed photography I
21 MAY. Constructed photography II
FUCO REYES (Santiago de Compostela, 1965) is a photographer, graduate in Social Psychology and specialist in Clinical Psychology. He studied Communication Sciences at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). With a diploma in Contemporary Artistic Photography, he has largely focused his career on teaching.
He has run photography courses and workshops at the USC and the CGAC, and has taught at Node Estudios de Arte Online. He’s currently running workshops at Eco Escuela de Arte. He has held various exhibitions, notably those in Japan in 2010 and at the CGAC in 2013. He has received numerous national awards for professional photography, and in 2023 he was awarded the Luis Ksado Prize for Photographic Creation. He’s chair of the cultural association Fotoforum Compostela.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Anyone interested in the history of photography
REGISTRATION
The registration period will be open from 3rd October 2025 till 27th January 2026. If you’re interested, please send an email to cgac.educacion@xunta.gal including the following information: last name, first name, ID number, studies, area of work or interest, an email address and a contact phone number.
Once their application is accepted, registered participants will receive information on how to complete the payment.
CERTIFICATION
The CGAC shall issue a certificate of achievement to all those who attend at least 70% of the course sessions.