→ bandiarc@gmail.com
→ Spain: +34 655 930 798
based in Galicia (North SPain)
PUBLICATIONS
BJP
Metal
Newport Live Lab
Pikara Magazine
7K Naiz
- BA Documentary Photography, University of South Wales, Newport, UK. 2015.
- MA Education. Visual Arts. Universidad de Almería, Spain. 2019.
- Postgraduate studies. Photojournalism. Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Spain. 2010.
- Graduated Political Science, Universidade Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 2009.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Ni un Hogar sin Lumbre..., Bricks Center, Bristol Photo Festival. Bristol, UK.
Life is Great..., Fundación Luis Seoane, Ffoco Festival, A Coruña, Spain.
“Un Terrain Comun”, group show, Galerie Sebastien Lepeuve, Clichy, Paris, France.
2021
Percorrer o Tempo. Visións do Camiño. Xacobeo 2021. Group exhibition. Xunta de Galicia.
Newport Live Lab. Diffusion International Festival of Photography, South Wales, UK
2017
Life is great... , group show XIII Bienal de Arte Pintor Laxeiro, Lalín, Pontevedra
Bilston Woods, Festival de Fotografía FFoco, A Coruña
2016
Guest artist Visions 2016 Festival de Fotografía, A Coruña, Spain
Bilston Woods, solo show Sala SAL, A Coruña
Bilston Woods, Cuarto Público feria de arte contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2015
A Tale of Two Cities, DIffusion International Festival of Photography, Cardiff, UK
Bilston Woods, Secvente Festivalul de Fotografie, Ploiesti, Romania
A Tale of Two Cities, TigerBay, Kunstbezirk Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Bilston Woods group show West Wharf gallery, Cardiff, Wales
2014
Open for business group show organized by Magnum Photos and Multistory, University of South Wales, Newport, UK.
Cardiff Bay group show Bute Town Community and Arts Center, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Made in Wales group show Oriel Colwyn gallery, Colwyn Bay, Wales.
LIfe is great... Scan PhotoBooks, Scan Tarragona Photo Festival, Spain.
Life is great... Group show photo books The Folio Club gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
... De Vista So Sabao gallery, Viseu, Portugal.
2013
Daffodil pickers , solo exhibition Centro Cultural Regal Xunqueira, Viveiro, Spain.
Cinema mundi , group show Photo Berlin Festival, Germany.
2012
Daffodil pickers, group show "Foto Traballo 2011", Fundación Caixa Galicia, A Coruña, Spain.
2010
Daffodil pickers, Festival Emergents, section Pati de la Llotja, Lleida, Spain.
GRANTS & AWARDS
2024
EFFEA European Funds for Emerging Artists.
Artist in residence. IC Visual Lab Studio. Bristol Photo Festival, England, UK.
2022-23
Fulbright scholarship. Independent research and production in the Arts, US.
Dept. of Archive and Production internship, Magnum Photos, New York City, US.
2021
Artist in residence. Festival Internacional de Cine Curtocircuito, Santiago de Compostela, SPain.
2017
I Encuentro de Creación Fotográfica de Andalucía, Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, Almería, SP.
Shortlisted Blankpaper Escuela scholarship, Madrid.
2016
Shortlisted Discovery Award, Encontros da Imagem International Photography Festival, Portugal.
Shortlisted Ideas Tap Hiive Innovators Fund, UK.
Shortlisted Ideas Tap Magnum Photos Photographer Funds,UK.
2015
XII Premio Creación Fotográfica Luis Ksado Deputación A Coruña, Spain.
Reginald Salisbury travel award, University of South Wales, UK.
V Encontro Artistas Novos, Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Finalist Bar Tur Photo Book Award, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK.
Shortlisted Joan Wakelin bursary, The Guardian & The Royal Photographic Society, UK.
2013
Honor mention, Foto Visura Spotlight grant, US
2012
Premi Ciutat de Barcelona, project "Racons, participative photography in Wad Ras”,
Barcelona City Council, Spain
2011
Finalist FotoTraballo, Fundación Nortempo, Spain
2010
Scholarship X Seminar Photography and Journalism, Albarracín, Spain
TALKS, TEACHING & WORKSHOPS
2024
Brighton Foto Fringe Symposium. “Cultivating Change: Unseen Stories of Land, Identity, and Resilience”.
Bristol Photo Festival Symposium. “The World A Wave”. In conversation with Dyane Smith (BJP) and Ritual Inhabitual.
Documentary Photography Workshop for Obradoiros Culturais Universidade da Coruña 2024-25, Campus de Ferrol, SP.
2023
Faculty Associate, Researcher, Dept. Art & Film, Cal Poly Humboldt, California, US.
2022
Artist Talk + workshop facilitator, “Percorrer o Tempo.Visións do Camiño. Xacobeo 2021”. Museo do Mar, Vigo, SP.
2020
Artist Talk, X Encontro de Artistas Novos, Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela, Sp.
2019
Trainee Teacher of Photography (MA Teaching, Visual Arts), Escuela de Artes Carlos Pérez Siquier, Almería, Sp.
2016
Artist talk + workshop facilitator, Visions Festival de Fotografía, A Coruña, Sp.
2009-10
Workshop facilitator + coordinator, Participative Photography in WAD RAS, FIAS Fundació Iniciativa de Acció Social, Barcelona, Sp.
FEATURED
L’Oeil de la Photographie, Bristish Journal of Photography (UK), Revista LUZES, METAL magazine (Spain), Pikara Magazine (SP), 7K revista dominical Naiz (SP), Human Rights Institute University of Connecticut (US), European Prospects (UK), La Voz de Galicia (SP), Periódico Diagonal (SP), A Fine Beginning (UK), Peter Brook Prison Photography (US).
2009
Press photographer, El Progreso, Spain.