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Residency of Bandia Ribeira

hosted by FFoco Festival

Participating countries:

France
Spain
United Kingdom

Photography
Storytelling
Visual Arts

Period

From 01-07-2024 to 01-12-2024

Generation #3

Website

https://ffocofestival.gal/

Address

OURENSE

Project summary

We will invite Spanish photographer Bandia Ribeira to participate in a ‘hybrid’ residency, with support from Glaz Festival (France) & FFoco Festival (Spain), leading to her first solo international exhibition (Bristol Photo Festival 2024). The opportunity will focus upon her collaborative series ‘No home without fire’, which documents the lives of migrant agricultural workers in Almeria, Spain; an area known as the ‘sea of plastic’ due to the prevalence of greenhouses, enabling out-of-season production for export to Northern Europe. The residency will take place in two phases: firstly online, enabling Ribeira to participate from Almeria, involving community members who participated in the project. Then secondly in-person, with Ribeira working from Bristol prior to the final exhibition.

Artist

Bandia Ribeira

Biography: Bandia Ribeira Cendán is a documentary photographer from As Pontes (A Coruña), Spain, based in Galicia at this moment. She graduated in Political Science and holds a degree in Documentary Photography from the University of South Wales, Newport. She has participated in several exhibitions and photography festivals such as Encontros da Imagem 2016 (Portugal), Diffusion Festival 2015 (Wales) or Scan Photobooks 2014 (Tarragona) .

In recent years she has been working as a teacher and developing a new project in Almería, an Andalusian province known for its industrial production of vegetables for export. During the past year she has been in the USA as a Fulbright Fellow in the Arts, conducting research in the Library of Congress Photography Collection and developing a photography project.

Contact: bandiarc@gmail.com

Website: https://bandiaribeira.com/

Social media: https://www.instagram.com/bandia_ribeira

Work: https://metalmagazine.eu/post/bandia-ribeira-life-is-great-without-it-youd-be-dead-jessia-alouane https://prisonphotography.org/tag/bandia-ribiera-cendan/