Journalist Rosa María Calaf and photojournalist Lorena Ros, who are media professionals with an extensive trajectory and with numerous awards gathered in recognition to it, will participate today Monday 20th April at the “Women, photojournalism and communication” panel discussion, in which “Objectives” collective of photojournalist women will organise from 18:30h at Aula Magna from the Cultural Centre La Nau, in Valencia.
The appointment, which is settled as a parallel activity to the photo exhibition titled “Diverses: overcoming stories”, which La Nau will host from last 10th March until 26th April, intends to provide the keys in which media professionals carry out their informative tasks from a sharing experience by the two guests. The exhibition is organised and produced by the Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality at Universitat de València and it also counts with the collaboration of the City Council.
Rosa María Calaf and Lorena Ros
Rosa María Calaf, awarded with numerous awards and recognised awards through her professional trajectory, was the dean of RTVE stringers. At the public entity she was in charge of stringers, among other, from New York, from USSR Moscow and Russia, Buenos Aires, Roma, Vienna, Hong Kong or Beijing. Since January 2009, she has been sharing her experience in different audio-visual collaborations and through sessions such as what she is now bringing to Valencia, together with “Objectives” collective of photojournalist women.
Likewise, Lorena Ros started working as a graphic reporter in 2001. Since then, the photojournalist has been publishing international headings of recognised prestige such as Newsweek or The Sunday Times Magazine. She has also worked for different ONG such as Médecins du Monde or Human Rights Watch. Furthermore, she received numerous awards, such as the World Press Photo (2001, 2004 and 2008). Nowadays, she coordinates being a mom with a project related to Bollywood, which obliges her to live with her partner in the cities of Barcelona and Bombay. Her immigration photographs in Spain, the victims of trafficking in Nigeria or the portraits of survivals from child sexual abuse have been all over the world and made her one of the referential graphic reporters in the international field.
“Diverses: history de overcoming”
Valencian photojournalists were gathered for a second time under the title of “Objectives”. Journalist women will expose at the Senate of Universitat de València (La Nau), the show called “Diverses: history de overcoming”, a tour of the lives of 11 women who live their daily life in parallel.
The 11 photographers of this collective of photojournalists made an individual control to the 11 protagonist women of the exhibition. In order to achieve it, they lived with them, they went with them to their daily non-stereotyped routines and they immortalised their causes, lives and recognitions. As a result, the viewer can find 66 snapshots which are now present in Valencia and which will be exposed in rooms of all Spain.
Mónica Torres (El País), Emma Ferrer (agencies), Eva Máñez (Valencia Plaza, FAV and agencies), Consuelo Chambó (freelance), Provi Morillas (Levante-EMV), Almudena Torres (agencies), Eva Ripoll (Palau de la Música of Valencia and freelance), Amparo Simó (Marca Newspaper and freelance), Irene Marsilla (Las Provincias), Raquel Abulaila (Deputation of Valencia) and Marga Ferrer (Levante-EMV, editorials and 360gradospress.com) are the 11 photojournalists who participate in the exhibition.
They express Aïssatou’s Senegalese life who looks for a place in our society without loosing her marks of identity; Esther’s life, a punk violinist of the Valencia Orchestra; Maleni’s life, a gypsy who goes to university and who breaks society’s prejudice towards gypsies; Begoña’s life, a lorry driver, a woman with a man’s job; Paca’s life, with six children, ten grandchildren and a husband who has been with her for fifty years; Fide’s life, a person who constantly fights to find answers for her rare disease; Elvira’s life, a woman with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI and sometimes known as brittle bone disease, or "Lobstein syndrome”); Maider’s life, a football player and an institution in the world of women’s football; Rosa’s life, a woman farmer, an entrepreneur and a fighting mother; Elena’s life, an aid worker dentist, committed and supportive with whoever needs it most; and Paula’s life, a middle class, working activist, and a single mother who fights against the expulsion from her house.
Last update: 20 de april de 2015 09:00.
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