Pandemic

The Libraries and Documentation Service of the University of Valencia has organized the exhibition "Pandemic: glances at a tragedy", a traveling exhibition that will visit different libraries throughout the course.

"Pandemic: glances of a tragedy" will show a selection of images collected in the book of the same title and edited by Blume in 2021. The images were captured by 26 photographers in the initial days of the Covid-19 pandemic. They are personal, disturbing visions, of moments full of uncertainties, of loneliness, also of heroism and professionalism.

The photographs run through hospitals, nursing homes, funeral homes and cemeteries, the main sources of fatality in the pandemic, and show daily life under the state of alarm in different countries: empty cities, queues to buy bread, endless hugs, toilets dressed in protective suits. Images that will always remain in our memory and that we would not want to look at again.

This book, edited with the support of various institutions, has a solidarity character, since its benefits will be destined entirely to the families of photographers who have died while covering the pandemic in different countries of the world.

The inauguration, held yesterday October 5 in the Palmireno Room of the Faculty of Geography and History, was attended by María Luisa Vázquez de Agredos Pascual - vice dean of the Faculty - and Victoria García Esteve - director of the UV Library and Documentation Service, together with Carmenchu ​​Alemán Álvarez - photographer - and Leopoldo Blume, editor of the book.

The exhibition can be visited at the Biblioteca d’Humanitats “Joan Reglà” from October 5, 2021 until November 30, 2021.

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