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Vari Caramés wins Spain’s 2026 National Photography Award
Spanish photographer Vari Caramés has won the 2026 National Photography Award.
The Culture Ministry gives the award, which comes with a €30,000 prize.
Caramés, 73, was born in Ferrol and has helped shape Galician culture through photography since the 1980s.
The jury praised his work for using blur, reflections and suggestion to find hidden worlds in everyday scenes.
His images often feature mist, water, shadows and people, and bring ordinary subjects such as streets, ports and railway stations into focus.
The award recognizes his contribution to artistic photography and a distinctive body of work spanning more than four decades.
He began exhibiting in A Coruña in 1980 and has since shown work in Spain, Portugal and France.
Vari Caramés has won Spain’s 2026 National Photography Award, granted by the Ministry of Culture.
The award carries a prize of €30,000.
The jury praised his contribution to artistic photography and to the renewal of Galician culture since the 1980s.
Caramés’s work often uses blur, reflections and suggestion to make ordinary scenes feel evocative.
He began exhibiting his work in A Coruña in 1980.
- Who
- Vari Caramés, a photographer from Ferrol.
- What
- He won Spain’s 2026 National Photography Award, which carries a €30,000 prize.
- When
- 2026. The article was published on October 13, 2026.
- Where
- Spain. Caramés was born in Ferrol and began exhibiting in A Coruña.
- Why
- The jury cited his contribution to artistic photography and the renewal of Galician culture, as well as the distinctive visual qualities of his work.
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His father, an amateur painter, gave him a Voigtlander camera.
Caramés began exhibiting his work in A Coruña.
He took part in the second Fotobienal Vigovisións, photographing Vigo with five other photographers.
He won Spain’s National Photography Award.
- Award
- Spain’s 2026 National Photography Award
- Prize
- €30,000
- Age
- 73
- Birthplace
- Ferrol
- First exhibitions
- A Coruña, 1980
- Vigovisións
- Second edition, 1986
What people are saying
the currency and contemporaneity of his work, his contribution to artistic photography and contribution to the renewal of Galician culture since the 1980s
My motto is: do what you can with what you have, wherever you are
I always liked the bad ones more
I can’t live without it
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