Partner Event
A conversation with Felipe Romero Beltrán, 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize-Winner
Friday, May 20
1:00 p.m. EDT
Felipe Romero Beltrán, winner of the 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize, will be in conversation with Brendan Embser, senior managing editor of Aperture magazine, in an online zoom event presented by Photo London.
Beltrán’s series Dialect, about young immigrant men navigating legal limbo in Spain, was chosen from more than one thousand submissions, and will be published in the Summer 2022 issue of Aperture magazine. As part of the Aperture Portfolio Prize, Romero Beltrán will receive a $3,000 cash award and his photographs will be presented in an exhibition at Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York, July 27–August 27, 2022.
The prize aims to spotlight new talent in photography, identifying contemporary trends in the field and highlighting artists whose work deserves greater recognition.
Illustrious past winners of and shortlisted artists for the Portfolio Prize include Dannielle Bowman, William Camargo, Jessica Chou, Chance DeVille, Eli Durst, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Natalie Krick, Jack Latham, Jarod Lew, Daniel Jack Lyons, Mark McKnight, Drew Nikonowicz, Sarah Palmer, Anouchka Renaud-Eck, Bryan Schutmaat, Ka-Man Tse, and Guanyu Xu.
Read more about the Portfolio Prize Winner here.
Felipe Romero Beltrán (born in Bogotá, 1992) is a Colombian photographer based in Madrid. Felipe focuses on social issues, dealing with the tension that new narratives introduce in the field of documentary photography. At the same time, he is currently preparing a PhD dissertation on photography at Complutense University of Madrid. His practice, characterized by its interest on social matters, is the result of long-term projects accompanied by extensive research on the subject.
Brendan Embser is senior managing editor of Aperture magazine. He is also editor of Aperture monographs by Deana Lawson, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Ethan James Green, Ming Smith, Philip Montgomery, and Wendy Red Star, and managing editor of Aperture Conversations: 1985 to the Present and a volume of Sunil Gupta’s collected writings, forthcoming from Aperture in 2022.
Image: Felipe Romero Beltrán, Bilal and Youssef wait for the end of the day, from the series Dialect, Seville, 2020–22
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