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"Photography deceives more than the word because there is more expectation of objectivity," said photographer Joan Fontcuberta at the 'congress Inter-photography and architecture', where more than two hundred international specialists are participating.

The symposium, organized by the School of ArchitectureThe symposium, organized by the University of Navarra Museum and the project Fotografía y Arquitectura Moderna en España, relates two disciplines: photography and architecture, although "there is a third component, the artistic dimension, which is necessary to understand it in all its breadth," said Rubén Alcolea, director of congress.

"Architecture, with its forms and spaces, textures and lights, has become the favorite field of experimentation for so many photographers who, more than portraying architecture, explain it," said Miguel A. Alonso del Val, director of the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra.

For his part, the Museum's director , Jaime García del Barrio, recalled that "the congress is organized with the Museum's partnership because of its important collection, which houses 14,000 photographs and 100,000 negatives from the 19th century to the present day".

The congress, which brings together professionals from Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, India and Australia, among other countries, is being held from Nov. 2 to 4 with the aim of showing how both disciplines experience and influence each other. In addition to the conferences, on November 2, the congress kicked off with the exhibition of Canadian artist Lynne Cohen at the University of Navarra Museum, whose works were also exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Palacio del Condestable is hosting the sample 'Arquigrafías', by photographer Juan Rodriguez.

"We spend so much time taking pictures that we don't look."

"Millions of photographs are produced daily on social networks, so many that we would need 39 years to see the ones that have been published in a single day," explained Joan Fontcuberta. We spend so much time taking photographs that we don't look". A status that, according to him, has caused photographs to become a dialogue and the act prevails over the content.

The immediacy of the networks is not, however, opposed to the reaction of photographing in order to see things: "The camera serves to intensify the gaze, because it is capable of observing realities that without it would be veiled by our natural limitations".

On Friday, November 4, among other conferences, Hélène Binet, honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and "Architect Award" given by the Royal Academy of Arts in London, is expected to give a lecture at discussion paper .