Carlos Bouza was born in the German city of Karlsruhe in 1962 where he spent his childhood. When he was barely ten years old, he moved to Madrid, the city where he currently resides. Part of his childhood is spent traveling between Spain and Germany, which in all probability influences him to be the tireless traveler that he is. He has lived in the cities of Valencia and Seville, stays that have contributed greatly to his artistic development. During his Sevillian period, he traveled throughout Andalusia, camera in hand, beginning his teaching work, organizing workshops and photographic trips to Morocco and Portugal.
Training
His photographic training began as an assistant to photographer Tomé Ros. He finishes his apprenticeship in Professional Photography at the F8 School of Photography. Carlos Bouza is also a Bachelor Sc. in Business Information Technologies from the University of Wales and has participated in various specialization courses in digital marketing, computing and photography.
Experience
Throughout his career Carlos Bouza collaborates with the Thyssen Krupp company; in press agencies such as Efe and Cordon Press; with the University School of Industrial Technical Engineering (EUITI) and the National Distance Education University (UNED) and in social photography reports for Aulocolor I. He was part of the Cibapress photographic laboratory team as Director of Photography.
Awards
He has received several awards and recognitions. Among which are several Honorable Mentions at the International Monochrome Awards and a Bronze Award at the International Photography Awards Spain. It should be noted that in 2015 Carlos Bouza was included in Nikon's NThePhoto project in the Sports category, a distinction reserved exclusively for the hundred best photographers in Spain.
Projects
Although most of his work is related to photojournalism and documentary and industrial photography, he works in parallel carrying out various personal projects and developing his creativity with the collection of artistic and author photography.
An old-school photographer, he is a supporter of chemical photography, beginning in 2006 to experiment with digital photography, gradually abandoning it. Currently, all of his work is done in digital format, also experimenting with various supports for his works and techniques with which he achieves that his works have a markedly pictorial effect.
exhibitions
Carlos Bouza actively participates in group photography and multidisciplinary exhibitions and holds solo shows in Spain, Portugal and France. In several of his exhibitions he has been sponsored by specialized companies in the photographic sector such as the Saal-Digital laboratories, Yolomando.com and Pixum.
Publications
In recent years he has published several photography books and contributed to travel publications in various blogs and magazines. His book "Chefchauen, the blue city of Morocco" has had the support of Nikon, receiving a mention on the Nikonistas blog
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The most current work by Carlos Bouza can be purchased in his online store and in the art galleries Saal Digital, Bokobo Art and Saatchi Art and, coinciding with his temporary exhibitions, in the Abartium Art Gallery (Barcelona), Feel & Flow (Madrid ), the Rigoberta Menchú Room in Leganés, Virtual Gallery and in hotels of the Eurostars chain in Spain and Portugal.
His photographic works are in the art collections of Eurostars Hotels, Mértola Municipal Chamber (Portugal), Villaviciosa de Odón City Council and the College of Spain in Paris, among others.
