EXPOSITION PIGMEOS BAKA

By QUIM FÀBREGAS

Quim Fàbregas has been trained as a photographer through the participation in courses given by Foto-Film Calella (2000), and by the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya (2001-2003). His training has been complemented in a self-taught way, through personal research and constant practice in the profession.

His work has been seen through exhibitions and publications in newspapers with the aim of showing the diversity of life forms in different parts of our planet. Being a reporter in the newspapers La Vanguardia and El Punt Diari. And publishing one of his projects in the newspaper Presencia, in which he documents the celebration of an African wedding.

In his photographic career it is worth mentioning the achievement of more than 50 photographic awards, among them the 1st Prize of the Travel Magazine Rutas del Mundo in the Portrait category (2006), and the award of the Silver Medal of the Foto-Film Calella Association (2003). The second prize in the contest of Development and Cooperation of the Generalitat Valenciana (2006), the first prize in the contest Ombú de Pineda de Mar (2007), the third prize in the humanitarian contest Pere Ferran de Sabadell (2007), the first prize in the contest Abeja de Oro de Guadalajara (Madrid 2007) and the first prize in the contest of the magazine Loney Planet (2009).

Highlight the SECOND PRIZE obtained in NEW YORK in November 2009 by the RESOURCE MAGAZINE with a total of 10,000 participants from around the world with the collection SCHOOLS OF MALI and an HONORABLE MENTION obtained in LONDON in the 4th Annual Photography Master Cup competition in 2010.

He has made multiple exhibitions, including Imaginary Portraits I and II; Anantapur, the India of Vicente Ferrer; Guess my country, a report on children from different cultures currently living in Catalonia, and A vision of Gambia, after traveling to the town of Julanguel with the African Association Moussa Molo of Calella. Autistic Children, Souls with Hearts and The House of Life, Illusion and Hope made in Chile for different organizations.

In 2010 he presents the exhibition 10, a series of 30 images of ten countries that he has traveled during his first decade as a travel and solidarity photographer, the countries are: INDIA, SENEGAL, GAMBIA, MOROCCO, MALI, CHILE, USA, BOSNIA, ISRAEL AND CAMEROON.

In 2012 he presented his work on Africa in Rosario, Argentina. The work is entitled A vision of Africa.

His passion for photography, perseverance and perseverance, has led him to discover his way of living life through the images he captures with his camera. An adventurous and supportive photographer, he has made reports on humanitarian work in various countries, such as India, Africa, Chile and Argentina.

Since 2009 he has been working on his latest project of responsible and solidarity travels in Africa, different and exciting trips where he takes travelers to discover an authentic Africa, basically visiting rural villages where the traveler discovers the essence and beauty of its people and culture. In one of the trips he discovers the population of Caparan, where he begins to make projects of Health, Education, Sports and Cultural. In 2013 she founded Etnik Solidaria to carry out these projects. In 2015 she set up her own personal project #VIAJESENRUTA. Travels outside agencies and with a personal style, makes routes in Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, India, Mongolia and opening routes in South America.

In 2017 he inaugurates the exhibition SentirLas, África sentir las emociones where he tours different countries of Sus America such as Argentina, Chile, Peru and Mexico to show his work and giving lectures about his photography, his travel and humanitarian projects and his way of life. He finishes the tour in his country, exhibiting and lecturing in Madrid, Barcelona, Menorca and Calella, his hometown.

In 2019 he travels to New York to start a new photographic project LOOK AT THE LOOK, REACH THE SOUL with a team of artists from different parts of the world. It is founded @wecanchangetheworld. During this year he is preparing his new tour that will take him again to exhibit in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Miami or New York, already confirmed. This exhibition is a work of many years of hard work and dedication.

In 2020 he publishes his book “Aprender de la nada, para tenerlo todo” a book of his 20 years of experiences around the world.

That same year he presents the exhibition ¨MIRAR LA MIRADA, LLEGAR AL AL ALMA” in Calella, her hometown, a set of humanitarian photographic works carried out in different parts of the world. In the middle of the pandemic is seen by more than 100o people.

In 2021 he presents the exhibition PIGMEOS BAKA at the Volcano Active Shop Foundation in Barcelona and this same year her work is presented in Brussels.

The profits from her photographs help different humanitarian projects in many parts of the world.