Paul Blanca

Robert Mapplethorpe: " Paul Blanca Is My Only Competitor " Paul Blanca was born in 1958 in Amsterdam and started photography in 1980. He did not go to art acadamy, but choose his own teachers like the ballet choreographer and photographer Hans van Manen, the painter Jean Paul Vroom, designer Benno Premsela and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The eighties and ninethies Blanca travelled and worked a lot in New York, went to the civil war in Lebanon (Beirut) and followed for several years the Bullfight in Spain where he rented studios in Zaragoza, Barcelona, Sevilla and Madrid. The end of the Tauro Maquina he worked with the female rjonadora (bullfighter on horseback) Marie Sara in Nimes the south of France. In 1992 he lived for one year in Egypt, followed with a year in New York. Since then he lives and works mostly in the Netherlands, which he combines with visits in Spain where he already undertook the pelgrimage to Santiago the Compostella for this year (2009) for the fifth time. Paul Blanca now lives and works in Amsterdam Holland.

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