Xosé Lois Vázquez, born in Santander in 1954, is the President of the OF Outono Fotográfico Association. He served as the director of the Outono Fotográfico festival and co-founded the Galicia Contemporary Photography Prize. He is the Creative Director of Disigna Edenia Buldin and the cultural and publishing company Difusora de Letras, Artes e Ideas. As a designer, he has worked on projects ranging from advertising and corporate design to ephemeral architecture, signage, and exhibition furniture. As an activist, he has curated, produced, and directed exhibition projects, cultural events, and publishing works intertwined with the Galicia space-nation, aiming to promote contemporary re-reading and production attitudes. He is also a visual artist with a focus on photography.
Vítor Nieves is the co-founder and curator of the Galicia Award of the Contemporary Photography, and the artistic director of the Outono Fotográfico Association (Galicia) and its namesake photography festival from 2012 to 2017. He has curated over 150 exhibitions. His curatorial work includes notable photography festivals such as Encontros da Imagem, Imago Lisboa, Mês da Imagem do Porto, and f/est Amarante (Portugal), Photoalicante, Fòrum Fotogràfic Can Basté, and Emotiva (Spain), and Paraty em Foco and Encontros de Agosto (Brazil). Nieves has curated exhibitions for galleries like Adorna (Porto), Salgadeiras (Lisbon), and Marisa Marimón (Galicia), as well as public centers such as the Municipal Museum of Ourense, Marcos Valcárcel Cultural Center, Pazo da Cultura, and the Provincial Museum of Lugo in Galicia; the Museum of Image, the Portuguese Center of Photography, and the National Society of Fine Arts (Lisbon), and the Museum of Industry in Fortaleza (Brazil). He is the educational director of the Institute of Cultural Production and Image (IPCI), where he teaches curation in the Master of Artistic Photography program. He is a guest professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto and the School of Media Arts and Design at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. He also teaches at Escuela Mistos (Alicante, Spain). Nieves has given numerous lectures at festivals and art schools and is a mentor in the Study Plan on Contemporary Image in Fortaleza (Brazil). As an editor, he is notable for his work with the Difusora de Letras, Artes e Ideas publishing house in the OF photography book collection, which he coordinates. As an author, he published "Don’t look at my camera," a study on Staged Photography. His latest publication is a research study on the Galician werewolf. He frequently writes photographic criticism for various specialized publications and opinion pieces for general media. Nieves was the coordinator of Lab_in Gallery and the director of Sargadelos Gallery (Galicia). He worked for several years as a photojournalist, during which he also held multiple exhibitions as an artist.
Elina Heikka is an art historian, curator and writer having an extensive experience in the field of contemporary photography and history of photography. In 2007– 2023 she worked as a director of The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. Museum is one of the key institutions in the field of contemporary photography in the Nordic region, widely known for the diverse and high-quality exhibition program. Museum is the oldest photo museum in all Europe. In 2001-2007 Heikka worked as researcher at the National Gallery of Finland, and before that as an editor and editor-in-chief in a photography magazine Valokuva. Since early 1990´s she has evaluated photographers´ MA theses at Aalto University on regular base. In summer 2023 she made part of the curatorial team of the exhibition of Nordic photography Søsterskap in the photo festival Rencontres d´Arles in France. In 2024 she is the artistic director of for Encontros da Imagem festival in Braga. Elina Heikka is based in Helsinki and Lisbon.
Elisa Noronha is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Porto (Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Fine Arts). Her field of expertise is the intersection of Museology and Artistic Studies, focusing on the confluence between museums and contemporary art (collections, exhibitions, agents, institutionalism, etc.) as a deeply significant form of thought and provocation. She also works as a consultant in museology, creating and collaborating on cultural and educational projects for various institutions. Additionally, Noronha engages in more authorial work, including curating exhibitions and other artistic-cultural productions. Notable projects include the exhibition É tudo uma questão de performatividade (2018) at the Cultural Forum of Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal; the exhibition Territórios Imaginados. Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira: the Collection on the road (2019) at Museo del Crudo, San Sperate, Sardinia, Italy; the exhibition Volátil - Novos olhares sobre a Coleção da FBAC (2024) at the Bienal Gallery of Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal; and the sound documentary Por uma rotação do olhar. A Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira narrada no feminino, produced in 2020 and 2021 in Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal. Her publications include Discursos e Reflexividade: um estudo sobre a musealização da arte contemporânea (2017) and Residências artísticas.Doc / Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira (2022).
Jokin Aspuru (Bilbao, 1968) Graduated in Image Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. Former television producer, he worked at ETB (Basque public television) for ten years in its news services, specializing in live broadcasts. As a journalist, he founded and directed the cultural magazine UK Uribe Kostako Aldizkaria in Euskara for another ten years. As a cultural agitator, he has promoted the production of records, fanzines, posters, and documentaries, as well as numerous photographic exhibitions. He founded the GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival in 2007 and has been its director since its inception.
Eva Torres holds a degree in Fine Arts and a Master's in Restoration, Rehabilitation, and Management of Cultural Artistic Heritage. She has been the director of the Municipal Museum of Ourense since 2004 and, since 2007, the Technical Director of Exhibition Spaces and Museum Areas at the Ourense City Council. She is a tutor and lecturer for external internships at the Faculty of History at the University of Vigo. Torres has managed, directed, and created catalogs and other publications, as well as coordinated artistic projects. Additionally, she is an advisor on the management of donations and loans of collections.
She holds a degree in Geography and History from the University of Santiago de Compostela, specializing in Art History with a focus on Museology (1985-1990). She earned her DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies) from USC in 1993 and completed doctoral courses in Prehistory and Archaeology. She has been the Director of the Provincial Museum of Lugo since 2008. The author of more than a hundred publications in journals, press, bulletins, conference proceedings, and collective books on topics related to gold archaeology, cultural heritage, historiography, art, museums, etc., she has also written four books on ancient goldsmithing. She is a scientific editor and co-author of collective works and catalogues raisonnés. In 2022, she published a popular essay titled The Provincial Museum of Lugo: Origin and Consolidation (1932-1982). Additionally, she has curated and coordinated exhibitions on Galician art and cultural heritage and organized conferences, courses, and workshops on these subjects.