Carlos Pérez Siquier: The Sun of Almeria

The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt features a major retrospective of a pioneer of the postwar Spanish photographic avant-garde. Carlos Pérez Siquier devoted sixty years to documenting the coastal city of Almeria and its inhabitants.

“The sun will always be the one from my childhood.” The poetry of this sentence surprises to resonate all the better, summoning memories of a more or less distant epoch. When he pronounced it in 2019, Carlos Pérez Siquier (1930–2021) was an old child...

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