Background
Koldo Chamorro de Aranzadi was born on August 20, 1949 in Vitoria, Pais Vasco, Spain.
(Five young photographers contributed to this pictorial do...)
Five young photographers contributed to this pictorial documentation of the construction of the container ships "Nuevo Leon", "Yucatan", and "Mexico" in 1993 and 1994, built in the Sestao boat yard of Spain's Astilleros Espanoles - the National Industrial Institute's group of shipbuilding companies. Limited text, in both Spanish and English.
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1994
Koldo Chamorro de Aranzadi was born on August 20, 1949 in Vitoria, Pais Vasco, Spain.
Self-taught in photography, he began shooting pictures at age thirteen. Photographer self-taught since 1965, was awarded a scholarship in1972 for the dowry of Art Castellblanch to make photographic studies abroad, and so being able to work with Ansel Adams, Jean Dieuzaide, Lucien Clergue, Brassaï, Jean Pierre Sudre, Ernst Haas, among others.
At the age of sixteen Koldo Chamorro de Aranzadi returned to Spain to make studies of Telecommunications Engineering, Marketing and Business Economics. He taught photography at Elisava Vocational Art School in Barcelona, Spain, in 1974-1975. From 1974 to 1976, with a grant from the Fundacion de Arte Castellblanch in Barcelona, Chamorro studied abroad.
A publicity photographer with Cover-Press Agency in Madrid, Spain, since 1979, Chamorro was photography critic for the magazine Agrupacion Cinematografica Fotografica de Navarra from 1973 to 1979. He has also been a freelance editorial and illustration photographer since 1970.
Koldo Chamorro de Aranzadi was a member of the Minority Photographers of New York. Joined the already dissolved group Alabern and participated in the current documentary of the 80's. In its almost forty years of independent work, apart from his personal work, their records were extended to the field of publishing, advertising, fashion and industrial. Also, he was a writer and invited lecturer at meetings, seminars, workshops, and universities.
Participated in collective projects such as, for example,Galicia a pé de foto, Open Spain, The birth of a boat, Four directions and Spain, New Millennium. And also in the years 90 prepared reports for international agencies such as the UNESCO and it subsequently developed projects about disability as Something it rains over my heart.
His work forms part of the permanent collections of the Center of Creative Photography (Arizona), the French National Library (Paris), from the collection of Polaroid (Boston), the Center Reina Sofia (Madrid) and the Museum of Navarre, among others, as well as different private collections.
(Five young photographers contributed to this pictorial do...)
1994