After the documentaries devoted to Frank Horvat, George Tourdjman and Satoshi Saikusa, Philippe Abergel‘s “Portrait of a Photographer” series returns with a fourth episode devoted to the Spanish photographer Javier Vallhonrat. Abergel followed him at home in Madrid and in the Spanish high mountains.
Born in Madrid in 1953, Javier Vallhonrat grew up under Franco and lived in his youth, his first artistic gestures with the implosion of Franco’s dictatorship. “Music, fashion and cinema were universes with opened doors,” he told Philippe Abergel. A graduate of the Fine Arts School in Madrid, he worked in Rome as the assistant of Italian photographer Gerardo Moschioni and presented personal works to major Italian magazines such as Vogue, going against the usual fashion clichés of the time. His early works were based on highly composed stagings.
