If there is one photography exhibition worth travelling for this summer, it is undoubtedly Paolo Roversi’s ‘Doubts’ at the MOP Foundation in A Coruña. Opening on 20 June, the exhibition brings together iconic masterworks and previously unseen images, offering visitors an intimate journey into the artistic universe of one of the most influential photographers of our time. Running until 20 September, Doubts transforms the spectacular MOP Center on A Coruña’s waterfront into a world of beauty, mystery, light and shadow.

And the setting could hardly be more inspiring. Located directly on the Atlantic-facing harbour, the MOP Foundation, founded by Marta Ortega Pérez, has quickly established itself as one of Europe’s most exciting destinations for photography. The architecture, the atmosphere, the city itself - everything invites visitors to slow down, look closer and immerse themselves in the experience. Quite simply, it is a place every photography lover should visit at least once.

For Paolo Roversi, doubt is not a weakness but the very source of creativity. This philosophy lies at the heart of the exhibition’s title, Doubts. As Roversi explains, doubt is “the open door to creativity and imagination whereas certainty closes that door.” The exhibition invites visitors to step into precisely that space between certainty and possibility. Unfolding across nine interconnected rooms - Theatre, Appearances, Shadows, Doubts, People, Presence, Grace, Beauty and Fading - the exhibition reveals the many dimensions of Roversi’s unique artistic vision and photographic language.

The exhibition features many of the elements that have defined Roversi’s work over the past four decades, including his enduring fascination with the experimental possibilities of Polaroid photography. Together, the nine chapters reveal both the extraordinary breadth of his technical mastery and the singularity of his vision.

Few photographers have shaped the visual language of fashion photography as profoundly as Paolo Roversi. His images seem suspended outside time - fragile, poetic and deeply human. Beauty, in Roversi’s world, is found not in perfection but in silence, vulnerability, shadow and the unexpected.

Accompanying the exhibition is the beautifully produced 344-page book Doubts, published by MOP Books and designed by M/M Paris, featuring original drawings by Mathias Augustyniak. The publication includes contributions by long-time collaborators and admirers including Vince Aletti, Wim and Donata Wenders, Carla Sozzani, Darius Khondji, Sarah Moon, Malgosia Bela and Saskia de Brauw.

Visitors arriving early will have the opportunity to meet the artist in person. On 19 June, one day before the exhibition opens, Paolo Roversi will sign copies of the catalogue at the MOP bookstore, accompanied by exclusive guided tours of the exhibition.

With Doubts, the MOP Foundation once again demonstrates why it has become one of the most compelling cultural destinations in Europe. More than an exhibition, it is an invitation to step away from distraction, embrace uncertainty and experience the quiet magic that has made Paolo Roversi one of photography’s most revered masters.

Paolo Roversi – Doubts
20 June - 20 September 2026
MOP Foundation / Muelle de Batería / A Coruña, Spain

For anyone passionate about photography, this is a destination exhibition. And for those who have not yet visited the MOP Foundation, there has rarely been a better reason to discover both this remarkable institution and the beautiful city of A Coruña.

 
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With FERVOR: The Very Powerful San Simón, Juan Brenner releases a photobook that moves far beyond classical documentary photography. What initially appears to be a visual journey into the spiritual rituals of Guatemala gradually unfolds into a hypnotic exploration of identity, pop culture, faith and resistance in the digital age.

At the center stands San Simón - also known as Maximón or El Abuelo - a fascinating figure suspended somewhere between Catholic iconography, Maya spirituality and contemporary subculture. He wears cowboy boots, smokes Marlboros, drinks Coca-Cola and simultaneously appears in TikTok feeds, WhatsApp stickers and street processions. Not a folkloric relic, but a living symbol of cultural self-assertion. That is precisely where the enormous power of this book lies.

Brenner photographs this world not with ethnographic distance, but with a rare combination of intimacy, visual sensibility and political awareness. Golden jewelry meets traditional Tz’utujil textiles, saturated ritual colors collide with urban surfaces, smartphones coexist with centuries-old spiritual practices. Between masks, smoke, neon colors and improvised altars, an aesthetic emerges somewhere between documentary, fashion, social reality and spiritual fever dream.

Particularly compelling is the way Brenner allows contradictions to coexist naturally. In FERVOR, Indigenous identity, queer communities, digital culture, spirituality and postmodern self-stylization do not cancel each other out - they exist simultaneously. That is exactly what makes the book feel so strikingly contemporary.

Formally, FERVOR belongs to that rare category of photobooks you do not simply flip through, but physically experience. Many sequences function almost like cinematic cuts: abrupt shifts between intimacy and public space, between religious ecstasy and everyday banality, between documentary precision and surreal exaggeration. The double-page spreads in particular unfold enormous visual power - especially when portraits of San Simón appear alongside close-ups of hands, fabrics, offerings or improvised ritual spaces.

FERVOR was published by Eros Publications as a beautifully produced hardcover volume featuring 144 pages and 98 images. With FERVOR, Juan Brenner has created one of the most compelling contemporary photobooks positioned somewhere between documentary, cultural analysis and visual research into the present moment - intense, unsettling, alive and full of conviction.

The project was recently celebrated at Photo London, where the first edition sold out completely during the fair. "London was incredible. We actually sold out all the copies we brought to the fair, which was very special for us, especially as the first title of the publishing house." Andrea Orejas, Founder & Editorial Director, to GoSee

Eros Publications (2025) is an independent publishing house based in Barcelona, dedicated to exploring desire as a vital, transformative, and profoundly human force through photography, art, and critical thought. Founded and directed by a team of women from artistic and editorial backgrounds, Eros Publications positions desire not as lack or commodity but as power in motion, a generative energy that resists dominant logics of efficiency and fragmentation.

 
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Albert Elm presents his new photobook This Much is True with Disko Bay, following his acclaimed debut What Sort of Life is This. The new publication moves between documentary observation, cinematic atmosphere and personal reflections on contemporary life - like a visual diary of a generation caught somewhere between information overload, wanderlust and the search for orientation.

"The book weaves together Elm’s energetic snapshots and dreamlike landscapes into an original body of work that employs a raw yet playful photographic language. Through this approach, Elm reflects on life as he experiences it—at home and abroad, at this particular moment in time, shaped by his age, circumstances, and surroundings." Disko Bay Books

The images move between distant locations and everyday situations: icebergs, swimming pools and deserts meet South Asian workers in Dubai, a marble quarry in Carrara and industrial pipe systems outside Mumbai. Alongside them appear tourists photographing the Mona Lisa, graffiti on separation barriers and masked police forces in Copenhagen. From these fragments, Elm constructs a visual narrative that feels both global and deeply personal.

Like many of his generation, Elm navigates a constant overload of information, lifestyles and possibilities. The photographs emerge from an attempt to understand the many layers of reality - and to continuously push toward its edges. By refusing hierarchies between the spectacular and the ordinary, the world inside the book unfolds as one interconnected, constantly shifting landscape.

Elm’s pseudo-documentary approach functions like a highly personal archive of lived experience: he photographs what feels meaningful in the moment in order to return to it later. Almost like a stamp collector, he gathers impressions until a world slowly begins to take shape - one he can understand and ultimately feel at home in.

Albert Elm (*1990) studied at the Glasgow School of Art as well as Fatamorgana in Denmark. His work has been exhibited internationally. His first photobook What Sort of Life is This (The Ice Plant, 2017) was nominated for both the Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Award and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Book Award.

 
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