Javier Hirschfeld
Javier Hirschfeld Moreno is a Spanish artist and curator. He currently lives and works in London. His photographic projects include Profile, The Sheltering Pixel, Miguel de Moreno and Once Ideal Senegal.
Javier Hirschfeld Moreno is interested in the role and responsibility of photography in the representation of the self and collective identities. He studied History of Art at Birkbeck and, in parallel, developed an interest in portrait photography. The diversity of the people he encountered and photographed in London, contrasted with the western-centric view of art history, which mainly focused on white male artists.
Hirschfeld is influenced by Masters of Western art, including Caravaggio or Zurbaran, Masters of West African studio photography like Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibe or Samuel Fosso, as well as contemporary artists like Omar Victor Diop, David Wojnarowicz or Joan Fontcuberta.
His work has been presented in France, Spain, US, Brazil, or UK, including Centre Pompidou, Centre of Contemporary Art, Malaga; Sala Canal, Madrid; Instituto Cervantes, Sao Paolo; Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia Almeria; Copeland Gallery, London.
He has also self-published several artist books under Los Interventores. Hirschfeld is currently the Photo Editor at BBC Culture and BBC Future, and has recently lead talks and workshops at …
Javier Hirschfeld Moreno is a Spanish artist and curator. He currently lives and works in London. His photographic projects include Profile, The Sheltering Pixel, Miguel de Moreno and Once Ideal Senegal.
Javier Hirschfeld Moreno is interested in the role and responsibility of photography in the representation of the self and collective identities. He studied History of Art at Birkbeck and, in parallel, developed an interest in portrait photography. The diversity of the people he encountered and photographed in London, contrasted with the western-centric view of art history, which mainly focused on white male artists.
Hirschfeld is influenced by Masters of Western art, including Caravaggio or Zurbaran, Masters of West African studio photography like Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibe or Samuel Fosso, as well as contemporary artists like Omar Victor Diop, David Wojnarowicz or Joan Fontcuberta.
His work has been presented in France, Spain, US, Brazil, or UK, including Centre Pompidou, Centre of Contemporary Art, Malaga; Sala Canal, Madrid; Instituto Cervantes, Sao Paolo; Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia Almeria; Copeland Gallery, London.
He has also self-published several artist books under Los Interventores. Hirschfeld is currently the Photo Editor at BBC Culture and BBC Future, and has recently lead talks and workshops at Victoria & Albert London, Ivorypress Gallery Madrid, Picasso Museum Malaga or Peckham24 London.
