Samuel Del Amor Biography

As a promising up-coming Spanish artist, Samuel del Amor works with POLAROID SX-70 emulsion. In his work there is no manipulation (manual or digital) and he uses no filter to alter the final result of the photographic image. All the Polaroid photographs are scanned to create a digital negative that enables the blow up into different sizes, conserving the original one.

In 1988 he got in touch with photography being at the same time interested in film production and script.

In 1990 he moves to Madrid where he enrols in ESF, the senior photography academy in the city, managed by Manuel Soler and with the specialist in History of the Photography, Enrique Peral; he followed attending seminars with Eduardo Momeñe, Andreas Müller-Phole, Sebastiao Salgado, Joan Fontcuberta, Jimmy Fox…, in Madrid and El Escorial.

He has also worked like script writer in TV series “PERIODISTAS”- Tele 5 (2000-2001) and in a production company, EKLEKTICA PRODUCCIONS – DIGIMEDIA (1993-1999).

He has participated in the following INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:

2005
-“La Villa” Cultural Centre, Móstoles, Madrid
-School of Fine Arts of Talavera, Toledo

2003
-Contemporary Humanities School, Madrid
-CAM Cultural Space (Mediterranean Saving Bank), Benidorm, Alicante, Spain

2002
- Centro Municipal de las Artes, Alicante
- 11th Edition, Spring Photography – Catalunya, Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona

He has also participated in the following COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS and PUBLICATIONS:

2004
-“Entrefotos ‘04”. “Conde Duque” Cultural Centre, Madrid
-“XXXI Bancaixa Award”. Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM)

2003
- 8th Edition of Mostra Stripart, Espai Boca Nord, Barcelona
- Lebasi Gallery, Palma De Mallorca
- Tot Art ’02, Picanya, Spain

2002
- 13th “Encuentros de Arte Contemporáneo” of “Instituto De Cultura Juan Gil-Albert”. Palau Altea Art Center. Altea, Spain

2001- Canal De Isabel II, Madrid.
- 10th Acea’s International Fine Arts Exhibition Hall. Barcelona

1992
- Diario 16 (Spanish Newspaper)
- Sala ESF, Madrid

1991
- 4th Photography Biennial, Museo De Bellas Artes. Cordova, Spain.
- Arte Fotográfico (Spanish Magazine). Nr. 470.

His works can be found at more than 20 private collections in SPAIN, FINLAND, GERMANY, FRANCE and at EDITORIAL ALESPORT (Barcelona).