Isabel Muñoz

Isabel Muñoz is a renowned Barcelona photographer born in 1951 and living in Madrid. In 2016 she was awarded the National Photography Prize, this well-deserved award joins a long list of acknowledgments obtained in the course of her career, such as the World Press Photo International award in 1999 and 2004, the Community Photography Prize Madrid in 2006 or the PHotoEspaña Prize in 2009.
She also received the Medal of Merit of the Fine Arts in 2009. A professional recognition equally materialized by the presence of her work in different national and international collections, among which the National Museum of Reina Sofía Art in Madrid, Colectania de Barcelona, Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, Maison Européenne de la Photographie of Paris and New Museum of Contemporary Art of New York.
The jury of the National Photography Award highlighted the professional career of Isabel Muñoz, in which
she “combines social commitment with the pursuit of beauty, delving into themes such as body, ritual or cultural diversity “. They also underlined “the uniqueness of its use of a traditional technique applied to a contemporary language”. A formal prose before which Muñoz states: “My interest has always been the human being. The body is a pretext to talk about the human being, about us. Although in people there are dark areas, there is always a part of light, the human being can not live without hope “

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