Centro Pérez Siquier, a place to learn about the photographer from Almería
The Centro Carlos Pérez Siquier is a place to learn about the winner of the National Prize of Photography in 2003, considered one of the pioneers of vanguard photography in Spain.
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His legacy can be studied at the centre, which was recently opened, and which bears his name. Through five rooms, visitors can view his work ranging from mythical series of Spanish documentalism on la Chanca (a popular area in the city of Almería), to a synthesis of his more abstract work.
Born in Almería in 1930, Carlos Pérez Siquier is one of the authors who had a significant impact on Spanish photography in the late 1950s through the magazine Afal. Throughout his career he was awarded numerous prizes. During the opening of the centre, he recalled a phrase by Cartier-Bresson in which he said that a good picture needs a good eye, heart and intelligence, an ingredient that he ensures he would change for a more primitive one. The centre was built in one year, with a budget of half a million euros, and without any public funding.
