Major League Soccer by Philippe Gruenberg (October 12, 2009) 
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Guest curators: Mari Carmen Arata and Roberto Huarcaya
Mari Carmen Arata (Peru, 1960): "My interests include art and modernity, related to images, in Latin America and the Andean world; anthropology and political sociology, memory and identity; mestizaje and history. I am also interested in cultural development, multidisciplinary investigation, promotion of education and rescue and diffusion of culture. I am in charge the cultural area of the Centro de la Imagen (Lima) including the gallery El Ojo Ajeno where I am also working as a curator for some of our exhibitions." Roberto Huarcaya (Peru, 1959). As a photographer Roberto has participated in the Habana Biennale (1997), Lima Biennale (1997, 1998 and 2000), as well as in the Venice Biennale (2001). He founded the Gaudi Institute of Photography and the Centro de la Imagen in Lima where he is currently Director. He has 10 individual exhibitions in Lima as well as in other cities like Paris, Barcelona, Santiago de Chile, Guayaquil and Buenos Aires. He has participated in more than a hundred collective exhibitions internationally.
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Our poll "A photo essay always needs a great written story" closed. 267 people voted, 28% agrees, 72% disagrees. 233 people answered our follow-up question "Are you a photographer?" 82% indicated they are, 18% said no. Initially, negative answers to question #1 were almost 100% as was the pecentage of photographers among respondants. Then, when the level of non-photographers started to rise, the percentage of people indicating good text is always essential started to rise too. This seems to indicate that non-photographers think that adding good text to your photo essays is essential. In my opinion: if you want non-photographers to dig your work, you know what to do...
Philippe has the ability to take pictures that have strong significances.
In 2005 he began to photograph stadiums and sports and social facilities of the most important and representative soccer clubs in Lima. Through his particular point of view, Philippe reveals the story behind a decadent institution like Peruvian soccer.
The pictures register the spaces in which institutional and sporting life takes place, unveiling human presence and idiosyncrasy through the spaces themselves and through the objects located in a natural way in those spaces.
As Philippe says, it is about private, as well as public spaces at the same time, or about private spaces of public interest.
Philippe explores in the intimacy of these spaces as they become to be a part of a collective imaginary which emerges from empty soccer fields, dressing and dining rooms, press lounges and social halls; an allegory of other social and political processes taking place in the country, which include sports symbols as a way to better understand our own idiosyncrasy.
Philippe Gruenberg (1972) lives and works in Lima, Peru.
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