Supereuskadi

Edition with transparent silkscreened cover
160 x 240 mm
88 photo pages (67 photographs)
24 text pages (booklet)
Trilingual edition: Spanish, Basque, English
Edition of 500 copies
Design: Setanta

This special edition includes a transparent silkscreened cover and features a striking collection of 67 photographs over 88 pages, accompanied by 24 pages of texts in a trilingual format (Spanish, Basque, and English). Only 500 copies have been printed.

SUPEREUSKADI is a photographic essay of the Basque Country, charting a fabled land where everything — culture, industry, society and politics — revolves, like a great stone sphere, around the region’s own identity and idiosyncrasy. Amid a profusion of characters, situations, dogmas, landscapes and clichés, we travel back and forth via the gaze of Alicante photographer Vicente Paredes. He was drawn to the Basque Country by the radikal rock scene over thirty years ago, and he has since been awestruck by what he has witnessed, namely the friction between the essential and the extraordinary, between the reality and the myth of all things SUPEREUSKADI.

VICENTE PAREDES (Orihuela, 1972) studied at the University of the Basque Country and Westminster College, London. He has taught extensively at the CFC, Bilbao’s Contemporary Photography Centre, and his own photographic work has been exhibited in numerous spaces, both in Spain and internationally. He has released, to date, two other books: Furtivos (2012) and Pony Congo (2015), the latter of which was named one of the Best Books of the Year at the 2016 Kassel Photobook Festival.