Jordi Socias (Barcelona, 1945) is one of the key names of the evolution of Spanish photojournalism in the last decades. Its personal style is also an essential element of the layout of the history of Spanish photography, a style that moves away from the objectivity deemed inherent in photography and which becomes aware of its own subjective representation nature. The most important figures and events of the country’s modern history have posed for him, building, through images, a fascinating tale of life since the ‘70’s, when he started his career, until now.
Socias, self-taught, began his photography career by chance. After co-founding the news agency API – Agencia Popular Informativa, which distributed the news that the Franco regime censored, he worked for the magazine Cambio 16, and subsequently for other well known journals of the national scene, some of them no longer available. As he was not satisfied with the way in which his photographs were being published, Socias started working as a publisher, thus becoming a reference in the profession, in charge of the graphic edition of El País Semanal. From his point of view, and taking his deep political commitment beyond his profession, published images and texts construct together a tale that must favour the reflection of the reader. His images, characteristically honest, move away from a mannerism that can be considered superfluous, though never forgetting their condition of subjective portraits of reality. A characteristic evidenced by his contributions to the magazines Madrid me mata and El Europeo, where he makes his interest for surrealism and expressionism clear. Witnesses of his career are the over seventy images that make up the exhibition Maremágnum and represent the intensity of a life devoted to photography and graphic publishing.
Jordi Socias (Barcelona, 1945) is one of the key names of the evolution of Spanish photojournalism in the last decades. Its personal style is also an essential element of the layout of the history of Spanish photography, a style that moves away from the objectivity deemed inherent in photography and which becomes aware of its own subjective representation nature. The most important figures and events of the country’s modern history have posed for him, building, through images, a fascinating tale of life since the ‘70’s, when he started his career, until now.
Socias, self-taught, began his photography career by chance. After co-founding the news agency API – Agencia Popular Informativa, which distributed the news that the Franco regime censored, he worked for the magazine Cambio 16, and subsequently for other well known journals of the national scene, some of them no longer available. As he was not satisfied with the way in which his photographs were being published, Socias started working as a publisher, thus becoming a reference in the profession, in charge of the graphic edition of El País Semanal. From his point of view, and taking his deep political commitment beyond his profession, published images and texts construct together a tale that must favour the reflection of the reader. His images, characteristically honest, move away from a mannerism that can be considered superfluous, though never forgetting their condition of subjective portraits of reality. A characteristic evidenced by his contributions to the magazines Madrid me mata and El Europeo, where he makes his interest for surrealism and expressionism clear. Witnesses of his career are the over seventy images that make up the exhibition Maremágnum and represent the intensity of a life devoted to photography and graphic publishing.