Premio Combat Prize

REASSIGN – BY CLAUDIA GONZÁLEZ
With REASSIGN, Claudia González has taken a step beyond her initial aim, achieving to join the significance and topicality of the best documentary photography with the aesthetics and exquisite handling that a work of art requires.
The project title refers to the designation applied to persons that have changed sex surgically – reasigned- and on the other hand disguises, by means of a cold euphemism the feeling, passion, suffering, and above all the desire of many people willing to have a clear sexual identity and the acceptance from others.
By means of outstanding psychological portraits exhibited like diptics, Claudia shares with us the complex inner life of people that have suffered the discrimination, double standards and rejection from our society and in many cases from their own family. Powerful and bittersweet stories that tell the struggle for their own sexual freedom.
There’s no doubt that REASSIGN is one of those projects that will stay in memory and can help us to achieve a better understanding of the fight that many start to vindicate an universal right: genre identity.
José María Mellado.
(Almería, 8 de febrero de 2014)
Born in Chile, raised in Europe. With advanced training in photography, Claudia González has spent the last four years involved in coordinating and managing events related to photography as well as exhibition projects in museums, galleries and art fairs in Europe and America. During the last three years has also commissioned the exhibition projects by Spanish artist Jose Maria Mellado and its relation to institutions, museums and art galleries.
2013. Management and administration of art galleries. iArt, Madrid.
2009. Master of Creative Photography. EFTI School, Madrid.
2008. Professional Photography Course. EFTI School, Madrid.
2007. Master in Lighting. Look School, Madrid.
2005. ENG. Spanish Radio Television School.
1999. Photography. MEC of Spain. Istanbul.