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The prestigious Swedish photographer and Barcelona resident has created the images for the advertising campaign that will introduce the magazine to the people of Barcelona
Time Out Barcelona, edited by Toni Puntí, will arrive at newsagents on the 10th of January with weekly issues and a circulation of 40,000 copies
The prestigious photographer Maria Espeus (Boras, Sweden, 1949) has created the images for the launch campaign of the new magazine Time Out Barcelona, the Barcelona issue of the famous London publication with editions in some of the world’s primary cultural capitals such as London, New York, Chicago and Sydney. Espeus, who lives and works in the Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona to which she dedicated the book The Other (Novaerapublications, 2007), has captured the essence of the city and of the magazine in an advertising campaign that can be seen in different spaces in the city in a few weeks as a letter of introduction to the new magazine.
Edited by Toni Puntí, Time Out Barcelona will appear at newsagents on the 10th of January with a weekly issue dedicated to current leisure activities and culture in the city with a circulation of 40,000 copies. Time Out Barcelona is the extension to the Catalan capital of the prestigious international brand Time Out at the hands of the publishing house Sàpiens Publicacions of the Cultura 03 Group, which currently publishes the magazines Descobrir Cuina, Descobrir Catalunya, Sàpiens, Nat and, since August 2007, Lonely Planet Magazine.
Maria Espeus (Boras, Sweden, 1949). A resident of Barcelona since 1977, Maria Espeus works with advertising agencies, public institutions (Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona City Council, ONCE) as well as with national and international magazines and newspapers (Vogue, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, Marie-Claire, El País, La Vanguardia). She won the Silver Lion at Cannes in 2002 for the film Orígenes: año internacional Gaudí, and won an award for the best medicine advertisement in 1996 for Bayer Aspirin. She was the director of photography for the documentary Las variaciones Gould (1992) by Manuel Huerga and did the insert Retrato in the film Septiembres (2007) by Carles Bosch. Maria Espeus has photographed many people, including musicians such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Frederic Mompou, Xavier Montsalvatge, Mikis Theodorakis, Michael Nyman, Carlos Santos, Montserrat Caballé, Victoria de los Ángeles, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joan Manuel Serrat, as well as figures from the worlds of theatre and cinema such as Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Moreau, Pedro Almodóvar, Josep M. Flotats and Antonio Banderas. She has also photographed personalities from the world of art and culture such as Rafael Moneo, Rosa Regàs, Pere Gimferrer and Jaume Plensa and politicians including Narcís Serra, Pasqual Maragall, Jordi Pujol and José Montilla.
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