Joan Fontcuberta: Stranger Than Fiction

Who? Born in Barcelona in 1955, Joan Fontcuberta was a youth of the Franco dictatorship. The influence of the authoritarian regime, combined with an early career in advertising, left the Catalan photographer disillusioned with the traditional postulations of photography. What ensued would become his signature: a conceptual interrogation into the veracity of the photographic medium, in which he questioned...