Clemente Bernad was born in Pamplona in 1963. He is a graduate in photography, cinema and video at the University of Barcelona. From 1987 to present he has documented many reportage with a particular interest in social themes.
His first project portrayed five years in the life of Andalusian day labourers “JORNALEROS”.In 1994 he received one FotoPres prize in Human Rights for his work entitled WOMEN WITHOUT A LAND, which was a reportage on Saharawi women in refugee camps in southern Algeria.
Between 1994-96 he worked in Chiapas after the Zapatista revolution.
From 1995 to 1998 he has participated in various projects, among which are: OPEN SPAIN at the CCCP of Chicago; PAUVRES DES NOUS, for the association Les petits frères des Pauvres, on social outcasts in Europe; THE SEARCH FOR SPAIN for National Geographic; MADRID VISTO POR…(3); VISION MEDITERRANEAN for the CAM Foundation; MÁLAGA BODY AND SHADOW; The New Madrid Cartography focused on Senegalese immigrants in Madrid; UNA GEOGRAFÍA, 8 viajes andaluces, DIARIOS ÍNTIMOS, etc,…
His photos have been exhibited at the Arles RIP, VISA pour l’image and at several collective and individual exhibitions.
In the past few years he has not been able tobreak away from his deep interest in the Basque Country, where he has captured the atmosphere of conflict and contradiction of a nationalist movement. he was finally able to finish this long-term project called BASQUE CHRONICLES at the end of 2000.
In 1999 La Fábrica published his Photobolsillo volume (monographs on Spanish photographers.
In 2002 he published the book CANOPUS, on the Argentina’s crisis.
In 2004 he published the book MALIKA’S DREAM, the story of the trip back home of the corpse of Malika Laaroussi, a young girl from Morocco who died when trying to reach Spain on a small boat.
he made also his first documentary film on the same subject.
He has carried out his latest projects in Latin America, the Middle East and Spain, where he is following the works of recovery of past memory, focused on the identification and exhumation of the graves of people murdered by Franco’s dictatorship, in the work entitled DONDE HABITA EL RECUERDO.
Clemente Bernad lives in Pamplona and is a member of CONTRASTO Agency.
