Port accessThe 2024 edition of the traditional calendar will once again feature the photographic work of Jesús de Echebarria e Ibargüengoitia.
The Port Authority of Bilbao has one again chosen to showcase the photographic work of Jesús de Echebarria e Ibargüengoitia in the 2024 edition of its annual calendar. In doing so, the port continues its efforts to rediscover and promote the work of photographers who have portrayed the river, the port and its surroundings through their cameras, with people from both sides of the river taking centre stage in scenes from day-to-day life along the riverbanks and in the docks.
A lover of light and landscapes and a pioneer of stereoscopic photography on glass plates in the early part of the 20th century, the bulk of Jesús de Echebarria e Ibargüengoitia’s (Bilbao 1882-1962) photographic work can be traced back to the 1910s in Paris and Berlin. His photos was published in various publications of the time, winning several prizes and accolades from his fellow photographers.
The Arenal and Olabeaga docks, the Deusto riverbank, Las Arenas beach and the Puente de Vizcaya suspension bridge are just some of the places and buildings featured in the 13 photographs selected to illustrate the front cover and the 12 months of the new edition of the Port Authority calendar, depicting scenes of day-to-day life and port activity between 1911 and 1934 from the archive of the Echebarria Mugertza family. The originals are in black and white but have been digitally coloured for the calendar.
With this new edition of the annual calendar, the Port Authority once again continues its efforts to commemorate the work of great photographers, as it has done in previous editions with Eulalia Abaitua, Telesforo de Errazquin, Germán Elorza and Jesús de Echebarria e Ibargüengoitia himself, artists who immortalised with their cameras the soul of a city and its people committed to its river and the sea.
The calendar will be available for purchase at the Itsasmuseum Bilbao. The 13 photographs selected for this edition will be on display on the museum esplanade from 12 December to 24 January.
