Manel Armengol

MANEL ARMENGOL (Badalona, 1949).
"Foeniculum vulgare".2004.
Gicleé and pigmented ink, copy 1/3.
Signed, titled and justified on the back.
Measurements: 75 x 75 cm; 102,5 x 102,5 cm (frame).
Spanish photographer. Since 1971 he was doing photojournalism independently, so he is among the photographers who made photographic reports of the social movements against Franco's regime in its last years of government, which were distributed abroad through the agency CIS, since there was censorship in Spain.1 However, the photographs that were widely published in the international press were taken in 1976 in a police charge in a peaceful demonstration in Barcelona during the Spanish transition and for which he received the photography award from the magazine Flash-Foto. His work as a photojournalist continued with different reports around the world until he had to abandon active photojournalism at the beginning of the eighties due to an accident.2 From that moment on, his photographic activity diversified into architectural photography and other authorial photography reports, and he also gave lectures at universities.