"Wim Wenders Photographs"

"Making films, I confess to really being a workaholic, I go quickly whereas, in photography I go slowly, I take my time... that’s why I love photography. As a photographer I like to show what I see, in reality. I’m in those places simply to listen, so these places can tell me something", said Wenders, known internationally as a film maker,  during the meeting with the media.

For her part, the director of the Sorigué Foundation, Ana Valles, said "All the photographs that have been chosen have a ‘leitmotif’, introspection and reflection through silence, but each section of the show has its own personality. For me, living with these images has been an experience." The press conference was also attended by Julio Sorigué, the founder of the institution.

In parallel to his work in cinema, Wenders has developed another side as a photographer, which began as a kind of personal travel log. During his travels over the last 20 years he has always carried a panoramic camera with him and has captured moments and landscapes that have impressed him. Some of them have been exhibited in Galleries and museums around the world.

Many of these photographs will be seen for the first time in Spain in the Sorigué Foundation’s museum. The show is divided in three parts: Ground Zero, panoramas of New York after 9/11, Silence of the Earth, landscapes mainly drawn from Australia and Israel, and, Fukushima, images of the village of Iitate after the nuclear disaster.

"The idea of the exhibition, the connection of my images with your territory was important for me in order to accept the proposal to exhibition here, which Blain|Southern made to me in London. My images have a lot to do with the foundation and its principles, my images are rooted in the earth and the planet. There’s been a good connection between both things."
 

"I'm an interpreter of Planet Stories"
Venue.- Sorigué Foundation. C/ Alcalde Pujol, 2 bis. Lleida, Spain.
Date.- From 10 October 2013 to 30 March 2014.