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Joan Colom interview / P.Freixa

Abstract

Photography, Fotografía, Fotografia Close to 87 year-old, photographer Joan Colom has received, among others, The National Photography Award (2002), the City of Barcelona Award (2005), the Creu de Sant Jordi award, from Generalitat de Catalunya (2006), and can not remember why one day, in the year 1957, he decided to start taking photographs, in the Catalan Photographic Association. During those years, Joan Colom, ‘the best Spanish reporter ever’, in the words of his friend and mentor Josep Maria Casademunt, has only taken photographs, almost exclusively, of Barcelona. Include text in English / Spanish / Catalan