Pilar Aymerich. Memoria vivida

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Pilar Aymerich (Barcelona, ​​1943) began her professional career in photography in the late 1960s, in the context of the late Franco regime and the Spanish Transition. Her camera witnessed demonstrations, strikes, celebrations and social movements, always from a social, humanist and feminist conscience.

Initially she trained in theater direction at the Adrià Gual School of Dramatic Art, in Barcelona. After a period of training in London and France, she returned to Barcelona in 1968, where she began her career in photography, publishing from then on in multiple magazines and newspapers, such as Sierra de Oro, Triunfo, Destino, El Viejo Topo and El País.

Aymerich's images have been characterized from the beginning by having a powerful narrative character that flows in parallel to the texts they accompany. Her photographic reports are made up of sequences in which one can identify a beginning, a development and an end of the situation or action being captured.

Aymerich's photojournalism avoids distance, the supposed objectivity of the documentary. Her images emerge from knowledge of a given situation, from familiarity with the environment and from the interpersonal relationships she builds. Her work is a reference for photojournalism in the second half of the 20th century, in an area where women were a minority.

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