Eduardo Nave (born in Valencia, 1976) studied photography at the Valencia School of Arts and Crafts and holds journalism and photojournalism workshops. Initially interested in documentary journalism and photojournalism centred on daily life, customs and festivals, his work has been published in different media, both national and international. Author of various reportage works such as Camino a la inserción (Road to insertion), produced between 1998 and 1999 in special education centres, this shows day to day aspects of the process of adaptation and insertion of people with physical and mental handicaps into normal schools. En La Línea dating from 2000 and 2001, produced in a centre for patients terminally ill with AIDS, is a reportage showing the daily life of the Hogar Marillac, a home in La Línea de la Concepción in Cádiz. From 2003 is Matrix-manía produced in Paris as a work showing the city through the advertising to be seen in ephemeral, fleeting, places that one passes by, of the kind that we find any day in any city, anywhere. Or the series Paisajes Intermedios (Intermediate Landscapes), isolated images documenting trips, instants taken during the course of the years 2000 and 2005. Between 2004 and 2005 he produced the series Campos de Arroz (Rice Fields), a reportage that led him, together with an agricultural engineer, to photographing all the stages of rice growing in the nature reserve of La Albufera of Valencia. Between 2003 and 2005 he undertook the project Normandie: les rivages du dèbarquement, a current view of the beaches and landing zones of the Allies on D-Day in Normandy sixty years on, thanks to a grant from the Botín Foundation.

The project that Estiarte now presents is titled Solo and is the first volume of a work carried out in the rooms of the old Matadero of Madrid, now converted into a centre for resources and exhibition rooms, though yet to be organised by the Madrid City Council. In these photos, Eduardo Nave wanders around the rooms where the carcasses of the animals consumed by the markets of Madrid used in the past to be slaughtered, skinned, smoked and distributed. An atmosphere of abandonment and mystery forms the basis of the composition of these enigmatic and disturbing photographs. As Rosa Olivares states in her book 100 fotógrafos españoles referring to Nave's work: “a new generation of photographers is reinventing the documentary. But these new photographers who are choosing photography as a means of expression and the problems of society, a reality and situations that can affect anyone, are not repeating the classical approaches of documentaries or press photography but are instead substantially changing the panorama of photography, and are becoming recognised within artistic circles as exponents of a plastic tradition which was never sufficiently valued and is now widely recognised.”

Eduardo Nave has received various awards and grants for his works, notably the grant from the Colegio de España in Paris, the Plastic Arts grant from the “Marcelino Botín Foundation”, first prize in the “44th GOLDEN BEE National Photography Competition”, and the “Fujifilm Euro Press Photo Awards 2004” (nature category) among others. In 2005 he was selected in the VII Edition of the Youth Award for Plastic Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, in the VIII International Biennial of Photography in Tenerife, and was a finalist in the V El Cultural Photography Award from the newspaper El Mundo. In 2006 he was selected in the “Purificación García Photography Competition 2006”, “PHotoEspaña Revelation Award 2006” and was finalist in the I Pilar Citoler International Award for Contemporary Photography. In 2008 he received the First Argory Award in Madrid.

He has displayed in the “International Photography Encounters of Arles” (France), in the Feria de Estampa (Madrid), Feria de ARCO (Madrid), in the “Guardamar Photography Days” (Alicante), in the Palazzio de Venecia (Rome), in Canal de Isabel II (Madrid), in the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, in the Macuf (La Coruña), in the Feria Maco (Mexico), in the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Madrid), in the Cervantes Institute (Paris), in the Paris Photo International Photography Show. His work belongs to private collections and to institutions such as the Spanish Museum of Photography, the Board of Culture of the Regional Government of Valencia, the Complutense University of Madrid, the Spanish Railways Foundation, Banco de Sabadell, the Ministry of Culture, Alcobendas City Council and the Ordóñez Falcó Foundation.