The ENAIRE Foundation presents its Lifetime Achievement Award to Paloma Navares and announces a new edition of the 2024 Photography Award

The ENAIRE Foundation recognises Paloma Navares (Burgos, 1947) with its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award. Navares is a Spanish multidisciplinary visual artist. She has created her own plastic language, characterised by the use of new technologies, resorting to space and light, and the integration of various techniques, in a search for fragility and the ethereal, imbuing her works with emotions. She is considered a pioneer in gender work, which impregnates her entire oeuvre.

The ENAIRE Foundation Photography Awards, which this year mark their 17th edition, are among the most prestigious in Spain.

This honorary distinction, presented by the ENAIRE Foundation and worth 17,000 euros, recognises the creative maturity and the time that Paloma has spent on her artistic projects over all these years. Her work reflects various research processes in which she questions social themes, delves into the world of women, their rites, customs and traditions; internal emotions and their extremes - madness, suicide, etc. -, the passage of time, the ideal image of the social individual, the question of bodily beauty, and death.

From the start, her plastic language has been based on interdisciplinary practices and on the search for a climax in the staging of her exhibitions, the assembly of techniques and media, and the use of industrial materials, incorporating other languages such as contemporary dance, body language or literature. Photography, video, sound and light combine in her installations, sculptures, objects, collages and staging.

The presentation of the ENAIRE Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award involves the hosting of an exhibit that will open the PhotoESPAÑA international photography festival, which is celebrating its 27th edition this year, at the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid on 29 May.

Announcement of the 2024 ENAIRE Foundation Photography Award

The Photography Award, which is turning 17 this year, recognises original works of an artistic or free subject matter that have not received prizes in any other competition. Every author may submit up to three photographs. The three winning works will become part of the ENAIRE Foundation's Collection of Contemporary Art.

12,000 euros will be awarded to the first prize, 8,000 euros to the second and 5,000 euros to the third.

The Photography Award is structured into two phases that combine digital and physical formats. Photographs opting for the prize must be presented in digital format from 1 February to 15 March 2024 using the registration form that the ENAIRE Foundation has provided for this purpose on its website.

Of all the works presented, the jury will short-list 30 photographs that will then have to be physically presented from 8 to 10 May 2024. In those cases where the artists must produce their work to present it in the physical phase of the prize, the ENAIRE Foundation will collaborate in its production, paying for 50% of the total cost of this process (up to 500 euros per photograph).

The images of the winners and finalists alike will be shown at the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid as part of PHotoESPAÑA 2024 exhibition

Of the 30 works presented in this second phase, the jury will select the three award-winning works, 14 finalists and a PHotoESPAÑA Honourable Mention, which will be exhibited as a group from 29 May to 29 August 2024 at the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid as part of the official opening of PHotoESPAÑA 2024.

All the information and rules will be available on our website and social media sites, where a special prize will also be given to the photograph that receives the most votes ("likes") from among the 30 candidates.

About ENAIRE Foundation

Is a cultural institution of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility that, in addition to managing, preserving and exhibiting the ENAIRE Collection of Contemporary Art, engages in a comprehensive annual programme of activities that focus on aeronautical art and culture. Notably, it is one of the institutions that currently provides the most support to photography through its annual prizes - which have become a benchmark for professional photographers - and by hosting exhibits.

It is the only foundation in Spain that combines the two seemingly disparate themes of art and aeronautical culture, bringing them together by undertaking a programme of activities that promote the study, research, knowledge and dissemination of aeronautical culture, integrating history and modernity to raise awareness of the world of aviation in our country.

The Naves de Gamazo are the first permanent home of the ENAIRE Collection of Contemporary Art, an example of collaboration between government agencies that was made possible thanks to the partnership and joint efforts of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, the Government of Cantabria, through the Office for Culture, Tourism and Sport, and the Port Authority of Santander, which share the operating expenses of the centre in order to ensure the present and future viability of this cultural project.

About ENAIRE

ENAIRE is the air navigation service provider in Spain.

As a company of the Ministry of Sustainable Transport and Mobility, it provides en route control services for all flights and overflights from five control centres in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Gran Canaria and Palma, as well as approach services to every airport in the country.

In addition, 46 airports receive communication, navigation and surveillance services from ENAIRE, which also maintains their air traffic control systems, and 21 of them, including the country's busiest airports, rely on its aerodrome air traffic control services.

ENAIRE is Europe's fourth largest air traffic manager and participates in the A6 Alliance, a coalition of air navigation providers responsible for over 80% of European air traffic, and which is seeking to modernise the air traffic management system. It is also a member of other international alliances promoting the Single European sky, such as SESAR Joint Undertaking, SESAR Deployment Manager, iTEC, CANSO and ICAO.

ENAIRE, as the responsible agency identified by the Ministry of Sustainable Transport and Mobility to implement the U-Space system in Spain, will, through its digital platform, provide the Common Information Services (CIS), which are essential to facilitate U-space services to drones and Urban Air Mobility in cooperation with local air traffic services, so that all types of aircraft can fly safely in the same airspace.

ENAIRE has received the highest score in Europe on the aviation safety key performance indicator for three years in a row. It has also been awarded the EFQM 500 Seal for its safe, efficient, innovative and sustainable management of air navigation services.