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Cristina de Middel
Poly-Spam
Cristina de Middel
Cristina de Middel. Alesia Atolevna, 2009
The series “Poly-Spam” aims to build the robotic portrait of the spam senders, taking every single detail specified and translating it into images with special care in the dramatic ambient of the specific moment in which the mail was sent.
“Starting from this deliciously written lie, I analyze the scheme of the trap that is hidden in its structure and that offers a list of our complexes and sins as social beings. By using photography and its veracity, I certify the existence of something too good to be true, creating impossible documents based on pure lies. I put a face behind the tale, but a contemporary one, a tale adapted to the dreams and frustrations of modern times.”
— Cristina de Middel
Selected Works
Cristina de Middel
Alesia Atolevna
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Cristina de Middel
David Kodjo
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Cristina de Middel
Grace Smith
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Cristina de Middel
Lateef Fagbemi
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Cristina de Middel
Marisol
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Artist
Cristina de Middel
1975 (Spain)
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Cristina de Middel is a Spanish artist based in Alicante, Spain.
She trained in photojournalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and later moved to Oklahoma to do a Master’s in Photography. In 2012, she self-published her first photography book Afronauts in which she recounts a Zambian space programme in South Africa.
She was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2013 and won the Infinity Award from the International Centre of Photography in the same year. In 2017, she received the Spanish National Photography Award for “re-designing the limits of the reality of photographic language.” That same year, she joined Magnum Photos, sponsored by the renowned photographer Martin Parr. In 2018, she was guest curator of the PhotoEspaña festival and organised six exhibitions that vindicate the playful. In 2022, she became the first Spanish woman to chair Magnum Photos.
