Biografia
Roger Grasas was born in Barcelona in 1970. He began his academic studies in 1995 at the Photography Faculty of the Catalunya Politechnical University where he specialized in landscape and documentary photography. Later, in the year 2000, he enrolled at the University of Barcelona where he graduated in Philosophy of Aesthetic specialty and political philosophy.
Grasas began his professional career as a photographer in 2002 documenting cooperation projects for international foundations and for UNESCO org. Since then, traveling becomes the core of his artistic work, translating his experiences and reflections into visual arts. Regular contributor to several Spanish (El País, La Vanguardia etc) and international publications (National Geographic) .From 2013 he lives between Barcelona and Middle East.
His body of work approaches the role and importance that technology reveals within the post-modern digital society and the state of confusion that human being suffers in the contemporary landscape. Sociopolitical issues such as globalization and philosophical concepts such as the 'difference', 'hyperreality' and 'alienation' generated by the post-capitalist society are also common places of his work.
His projects have been exhibited in galleries of Spain, France, Netherlands, Germany, USA, United Arab Emirates and Mexico. In 2017 his latest projects 'Atenea' and 'Min Turab' have been published and distributed worldwide by the prestigious RM publishing house. Several international awards including Art Photo Bcn 2014, Photolucida 2017 Contest or Exposure Awards 2018.
He is currently developing 'Ha Aretz Ha Muvtahat', a new documentary project that reinterprets the historical landscapes of the Bible and the sacred writings under the filter and the current situation of globalization, mass tourism and political conflicts.
