African diversity through the eyes of Alfons Rodríguez
There is hunger, war, pain and death in Africa, but there is also love, childrenʼs smiles, culture, progress and future. This diversity in the African continent can be seen in an exhibition with sixty photographs by Alfons Rodríguez, entitled “Àfriques: pobles, terres i realitats”, in Josep Uclés room in El Carme Cultural Center, in Badalona.
The exhibition is a tribute to the African continent and its people: it shows the encouragement and fight of the people of this continent to have a better future, an image of Africa far from the one we usually receive.
There is hunger, war, pain and death in Africa, but there is also love, childrenʼs smiles, culture, progress and future. This diversity in the African continent can be seen in an exhibition with sixty photographs by Alfons Rodríguez, entitled “Àfriques: pobles, terres i realitats”, in Josep Uclés room in El Carme Cultural Center, in Badalona.
The exhibition is a tribute to the African continent and its people: it shows the encouragement and fight of the people of this continent to have a better future, an image of Africa far from the one we usually receive.
Alfons Rodríguez has been awarded with several prizes and distinctions, such as the Godó Award for Photojournalism. He is not the Spanish president of the international nonprofit organization Shoot 4 Change. He has published works in the journals La Vanguardia and El Periódico de Catalunya, as well as prestigious publications such as National Geographic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Der Spiegel, Geo or La Reppublica, among others. He took pictures in more than a hundred countries and exhibited them in different cities of Europe, America, Asia and Africa. In solidarity and cooperation programs and actions, Rodríguez collaborates with several organizations, foundations and international non-profit agencies. Together with the UB Solidarity Foundation, the author has organized several exhibitions on the African continent: about the old Mauritanian city of Oualâta, the oasis of Figuig, in Morocco, or the conflict in Congo. In some way, the current exhibition is the daughter of these others and is a short collection of the African diversity.
"Àfriques: pobles, terres i realitats" was opened yesterday with the presence of the Vice-Rector for Arts, Culture and Heritage of the University of Barcelona, Salvador García Fortes; the Councillor for Badalona Educadora, Laia Sabater i Díaz, and the Head of UB Solidarity Foundation, Xavier López i Arnabat. On Thursday, March 2, at 19 h, the author of the photographs will make a guided tour of the exhibition.
The entrance for the exhibition is free, and it is jointly organized by the Vice-Rectorʼs Office of Arts, Culture and Heritage of the University of Barcelona, UB Solidarity Foundation and the City Council of Badalona. The timetables of El Carme Cultural Center (C. Francesc Layret, 78-82. Badalona) is from Tuesday to Saturday from 16 to 20.30 h, and Saturdays, Sundays and rest days from 10 to 14 h.