Bourse du Talent 2026 : Oskar Alvarado

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Where Fireflies Unfold is a long-term project that began in 2016 and was completed in 2022 consisting of 54 color photographs. The initial premise has been to be able to have an exhibition body of a certain magnitude and the possibility of making a photobook once the series is finished.

This year, 2026, marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of the essay “Spanish Village” in LIFE magazine in April 1951.

Statement

Deleitosa is my village. It is located in the province of Cáceres, in the region of Extremadura in Spain. Here my parents, grandparents, great grandparents and other ancestors were born, going back through centuries of family genealogy. Deleitosa was the village that Eugene Smith chose to realize in his photographic essay “Spanish Village” that was published in the American magazine Life on April 9, 1951.

Far from showing the perceptible appearance of Deleitosa or some of the visual references linked to what was a photographic icon of the social and economic backwardness in Spanish rural society, my gaze has some subjective nuances linked to a series of experiences, places and personal memories. Reminiscences that have endured as apparitions in my memory. Images that intermingle episodes that float in my imaginary with the new realities that coexist in the village.

There is an emotional need to reflect on the territory of which we are part. To explore our identity in the echo of the places that still speak to us, or in the absence-presence of the people and beings that inhabit them. To form a visual interpretation that evokes the mystery that manifests itself in everyday rhythms, in the poetic condition that underlies the strange.

Born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Oskar Alvarado holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at Basque Country University (UPV), a MA on Curatorial and Cultural Practices in Art and New Media at Higher School of Design (ESDI) in Barcelona and a Graduate Diploma in Management, Preservation and Dissemination of Photographic Archives at Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona (UAB).

His photographic work has been exhibited at the Instituto Cervantes in Belgrade (RS), National Museum of Helsinki (FI), Fotonoviembre Atlántica Colectivas (ES), Photo Is:rael (IL), Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cáceres (ES), Verzasca Foto Festival (CH), Addis Foto Fest (ET), Solar Foto Festival (BR), BFoto Festival (ES), Angkor Photo Festival (KH), FineArt Igualada (ES), Chennai Photo Biennale (IN), European Month of Photography Berlin (DE), Voies Off Awards (FR) or Houston Center for Photography (USA) among others.

At the same time, his work has been recognized in awards such as Sarajevo Photography Festival, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award, Gomma Photography Grant, Photometria International Photography Festival, The Prefix Prize, Photo Collective Stories, Festival Images Gibellina, OpenWalls Arles, Flow Photofest, Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship, Santiago Castelo International Photography Award, Life Framer Photography Award, Helsinki Photo Festival, Art Photo Bcn, Restart Lithuanian Photographers Association or PEP Photographic Exploration Project and awarded with the Fujifilm Photography Grant at XXIII Photography and Journalism Seminar of Albarracín.