Location : Centro de Exposiciones

Exhibition by photographer MANUEL ROCCA VARGAS, known as Manny Rocca, born in Seville, though he spent most of his life in the USA. 
He worked there for newspapers like the Washington Post, Washington Times and magazines like People.
For several terms of office, he rubbed shoulders with the great international politicians in his work as the official photographer of the White House. 
In Spain, he has been the official photographer of the EFE news agency. He has been awarded with many international prizes on many occasions such as the consolation prize of the 1990
 World Press Photo award and the two first prizes of the White House News Photographers Association –in 1986 and 1990-, as well as the first pictorial award HWNPA (1989), one of the most coveted prizes in the USA.
Like good journalists, Rocca is also an excellent portrait artist. Indeed, the human being is present in his photos as he frequently portrays faces, attitudes, clothes or behaviours as the core of the image. He seldom feels the temptation of photographing a landscape or an ambiance without people, objects without their owner, a town without citizens. 
Before becoming a photographer, Manny Rocca worked with music and recorded fourteen LP’s. This is why he likes so much taking pictures of musicians and singers, flamenco, jazz, guitar and trumpet. They are all always humanised by him and his camera. 

The exhibition consists of 65 black and white photos.