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Sevilla, España
Michael Padilla is a photographer, educator, and nurse based in Seville, Spain. His work reflects on the intemporality of the world that surrounds us, and on finding one’s place within that structure, society, or environment through mindful awareness of the unobserved cycles that we navigate in our daily lives.
Previous works include Plague Kids (2020), a photographic work on the more immediate ripples felt in society as a result of the pandemic which was included in the Athens Photo Festival 2022 Photobook Exhibition.
Upon returning to hospital work as a result of a series of unending waves of COVID in 2020, his subsequent body of work was HUVR: septiembre, a self-published conceptual object that challenges that notion of what a book can be while commenting on uncontrollable life changes and the daily witnessing of traumatic events and miseries not often seen by the population at large upon healthcare workers since this all began.
His most recent work is the second edition in the HUVR series of handmade photobooks reflecting on his time in the COVID wards.
He has a BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology (2003) and an MA in Photography from Falmouth University (2021) and currently teaches photography and related courses at the University of Seville, Centro Universitario EUSA and through the University of New Haven in Seville.
He is a member of The Long Exposure photographic collective and The Orange Republick Collective and is represented digitally by The Red Cat Gallery.
Exhibitions
March 2023
– Format23 Photobook Market
HUVR: Octubre, Virgen del Rocío: Septiembre, Video Installation
– So Many Things I Had Thought Forgotten
Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
8 images
February 2023
– So Many Things I Had Thought Forgotten
Walford Mill, Dorset
3 images
November 2022
– So Many Things I Had Thought Forgotten
4 Corners Gallery, London
10 images
October 2022
– So Many Things I Had Thought Forgotten
Regionalgalerie Südhessen, Darmstadt, Germany
9 images
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October 2021
– Realities Constructed
4 Corners Gallery, London
9 images – The Long Exposure Photography Collective exhibition
August 2021
– Landings 2021
Falmouth University Online Showcase
http://www.landings.space/landings21.html
August 2020
– Landings 2020
Falmouth University Online Showcase
http://www.landings.space/landings2020.html
June 2006
– “In Passing” – solo – 23 images
Galeria Ánima – Seville, Spain
October 2003
– RIT NASAD Exhibition – group – 6 images
Bevier Gallery – Rochester, NY
May – September 2003
– RIT Student Honor’s Show – group – 2 images
Bevier Gallery – Rochester, NY
February 2003 – March 2003
– Club Lux Artists Exhibition – group – 3 images
Club Lux – Rochester, NY, USA
February – March 2003
– “Over Break” – solo – 20 images
Gallery R – Rochester, NY, USA
Press
The Long Exposure:
RPS Spotlight on The Long Exposure
So Many Things I Had Thought Forgotten – by Michael Padilla
Source Magazine Graduate Photo Online 2021
Source Magazine’s showcase for emerging photographic talent from photography courses across the UK and Ireland.