Palmira Puig, also known in Brazil as Palmira Giró, was a Catalan photographer who lived for three decades in Brazil where she was a member of the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante, the predecessor of what would be eventually known as the Paulista School. In addition to her work as a publicist in the Estúdio Giró – along with her husband and fellow photographer Marcel Giró – Puig developed a photographic style which sought artistic expression with its own language. In her photographs – still lifes, landscapes and portraits – one can see features in common with the Paulista School, such as experimenting with the new frames and the play of light and shade, though she also adds an interest in the human figure and daily life, based on a tender observation of the surroundings, as well as the gestures and the tasks carried out by the people being portrayed.
Photographer and painter. He took up photography in the mid-nineties using a camera that his mother had given him. He graduated in artistic photography from the Escola d’Art i Disseny in Tarragona. He is constantly travelling and has reported from many countries such as Palestine, Syria, Bosnia, Greece and the USA. His photographic work focuses on documentary, mainly featuring war, politics and human characters. In 2017 he won the second edition of the Painting Competition held by the Fundació Privada Mútua Catalana.
He trained at the Escola Massana in Barcelona and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, where he has lived and worked since he settled there in the sixties. At that time, he discovered French new realism, something he used to denounce insatiable commercialism and consumerism, which then became the main discourse in his work, first with collage and later on with photographic emulsions on canvas and prints on metal. He uses techniques from that time, such as reproducibility, and sources from the media and advertising as his own language of criticism.
