German Peraire propose un voyage dans le monde de la nuit où il raconte sa propre expérience d’une humanité cachée, hédoniste et marginale, affamée de plaisirs et de rencontres, fuyant la vie conventionnelle.

BIOGRAPHIE:

Born in Barcelona in 1988, Germán Peraire discovered photography at the age of 16 and ever since devoted to it. Studied photography in the Politechnical University of Catalunya and started a professional career, exhibiting in galleries and festivals arround Europe. Represented nowadays by Galería Tagomago in Barcelona, is considered a relevant emergent photographer in Spain. Lives and works between Barcelona and Berlin.

His approach to photography is always in terms of a personal diary talking about a soulfull inner universe in which he depicts personal matters, longings, fears and secrets, through the people he finds in his surroundings, specially in the nightlife.

2005 - 2009Degree in photography and digital creation Universitat

                        Politècnica de Catalunya (CITM) Terrassa – Spain

2010            Portfolio Review, XLI Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France

                        Portfolio Review, Encontros da Imagem, Braga,  Portugal

2011            Workshop with Anders Petersen, Campus PhotoEspaña

Alcalá de Henares, Spain

Portfolio Review, Lodz Foto Festiwal, Poland

Portfolio Review, Emergent Festival, Lleida, Spain

Portfolio Review, Neue Schule fur Photographie, Berlin, Germany

Workshop with Klavdij Sluban, Atelier de Visu, Marseille, France

Expositions

2011    “Night Diary”, public presentation, Emergent-Lleida Festival,  Spain.

“Night Diary”, Slideshow projection, SPA das Artes, Recife, Brasil

“Night Diary”, Galería Tagomago, Barcelona

“Night Diary”, Teruel Punto Photo Festival, Teruel

2010     Paris Photo Off, La Belleviloise, Paris

Slideshow in Salt & Pepper Photographic Sessions, Barcelona

Lecture-projection in Pasillo Cultural, Barcelona

Exhibition in Galería Contrast, Barcelona

MadridPhoto 2010, with Galería Tagomago, Madrid

2009     SonimagFoto 09, Barcelona

Galería Tagomago, Barcelona

Espacio Niram, Madrid

Galería-café Milans, Barcelona

WIP Festival, Poblenou, Barcelona

Centre de la Imatge i la Tecnologia Multimèdia, Barcelona

Galería Hermann Orduña, Barcelona

Galeria Carme Espinet, Barcelona

2008     Exhibition in Festival Emergent 08, Llelida

CITM Fest, Terrassa

2007     SonimagFoto 2007, Barcelona

Prix

2011 Fundació Sorigué Prize, Finalist, Emergent-Lleida festival, Spain

2009 LUX Award, Asociación de Fotógrafos Profesionales, Barcelona

2008 Emergent 08, “Deu escoles deu alumnes”, Lleida

GERMAN PERAIRE

STATEMENT ON NIGHT DIARY