"Librets de Festes" is the first joint exhibition of the three Spanish photographers who are part of the Magnum agency, undoubtedly the most prestigious in the world and will be presented at the Ponce+Robles Gallery during the new edition of the Off Festival of PhotoEspaña, an event always awaited by art and photography lovers.

"Llibrets de Festes" is the result of a project carried out in the Valencian Community in 2023 by Cristina García Rodero, Cristina de Middel and Lua Ribeira, who for the first time are called to work together.

The project tries to approach the spring festivals of the Valencian Community from different perspectives and had a first phase in Castellón at the end of March 2023. There, at the Casa de Caragols under the name Magnum Live Lab, the authors shared with the public the editing process of their work in an open conference.

Each of the photographers freely approached her journey. Cristina García Rodero (1949, Ciudad Real), worked in different places of the community, approaching from Los Enfarinats of Alicante, the Castellets of Castellón to the Fallas of Valencia, as part of her journey in the construction of that great anthropological and social portrait of our country that she began in the mid-seventies. Cristina de Middel (1975, Alicante), who was born and raised in the region, approached the Fallas of Valencia always looking for a parallel narrative to the one that the media officially show us about this festivity, for which she makes use of a certain irony in the achievement of images and scenes that manage to expand the vision of those days. Finally, Lua Ribeira (1986, Galicia), approaches the festivities from the distance and freshness of not having lived them until then and focuses her lens on the peripheries, both physical and temporal, the outskirts of the cities, with their orchards bordering the large blocks of buildings, are the scene where in the early morning appear many of the young people who have been living the party inside. It is a portrait of a generation that wanders between a new world and an inherited one that it is forced to assume.

As an essential part of the project, the publishers This Book is True and Los Doscientos, have produced a special publication which is a box with three Llibrets de Festes with each of the authors' works and three portfolios with ten original works inside each of them. It is a special edition of only two hundred copies for sale that tries to bring the work of these authors to a new collector.

This project has been curated by Rafael Doctor Roncero with the collaboration of FUJIFILMS and Magnum Photos.