For more than 20 years, Fernandez has been capturing the Spanish Film Academys most important moments on camera and now they are being shared with the public in an exhibition which brings together some of the most appealing and exciting snapshots of the latest editions of the Academys annual film awards ceremonies. From 6th February to 14th March, Pipo Fernandez is showing his latest compilation,
La mirada complice, at the Spanish Film Academys central offices in Madrid (C/ Zurbano, 3). Among the film personalities in portraits are Alejandro Amenabar, Pedro Almodovar, Manuel Alexandre, Antonio Banderas, Pilar y Javier Bardem, Jose Luis Borau, Penelope Cruz, Alex de la Iglesia, Viggo Mortensen, Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez, Francisco Rabal, Belen Rueda, Alberto San Juan, Guillermo del Toro and Maribel Verdu. With the 40 montages in total, there are hundreds of snapshots all together. They capture all of the emotion, the gesture, the laughter and the tears which are seen at the awards ceremony for Spanish cinema. Throughout his career, Fernandez has combined working as a photo-journalist for major Spanish news media and publications with still photography of film scenes. He has participated in film shootings with Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde (
Una palabra tuya, 2008), Gonzalo Suarez (
Oviedo Express, 2007), Antonio Mercero (
¿Y tu quien eres?, 2007; Antonio Cuadri (
El corazon de la tierra, 2007), Itciar Bollain (
Mataharis, 2007), Jaime Chavarri (
Camaron, 2006), Miguel Hermoso (
La luz prodigiosa, 2003), Manuel Gutierrez Aragon (
El caballero Don Quijote, 2002;
El rey del rio, 1993), Daniel Calpasoro (
Asfalto, 2000), Vicente Aranda (
Celos, 1999;
Libertarias, 1996;
La pasion turca, 1992), Joaquin Oristrell (
Novios, 1998), Alex de la Iglesia (
El dia de la bestia, 1995), Mariano Barroso (
Extasis, 1995), Antonio Gimenez-Rico (
Un soldadito español, 1987;
Jarrapellejos, 1986), etc., etc. As well as being long-time photographer for the Spanish Film Academy, Fernandez has been a
graphic witness to major film festivals throughout Spain (San Sebastian, Valladolid, Malaga, ...) and exhibited the most important recompilations of them in numerous cities
("Fotografiando peliculas", "Un Oficio, una Ilusion", "La Moda en el Cine"...). The Spanish Film Academy exhibition is open Monday-Friday from 11:00AM to 1:00PM and 5:00PM to 8:00PM (closed holidays) and admission is free-of-charge.