Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2019) and later graduated from the Master's Degree in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (2019-2021). His work has been exhibited in the "Sense Títol" exhibition of the University of Fine Arts of Barcelona (2019) at the Muxart Foundation, Contemporary Art and Creation Space (2017), at the Valid Foto Bcn Gallery (2021), at the Igualada Fine Art Contemporary Photography Festival (2022) and awarded in international competitions and exhibitions such as Revela't 20 – International Festival of Contemporary Analog Photography (2020), the Tokyo International Photo Award in (2021) and selected in Les Boutographies– Rencontres photographiques de Montpellier - (2021).
Since 1999, she has worked at the Fundació Vila Casas, currently as an advisor to Art. He has curated projects such as “Isidre Manils. Fora de camp museum Can Framis (February-May 2022)”, “Vicenç Viaplana. The places of painting. Co-curated with Àlex Susanna. Espais Volart (January-May 2021)”. “Mayte Vieta. Estimar és un lloc (Loving is a place). Garrotxa Museum (July-October 2021)”. “Antoni Tapies. The resistance of the sign. Castle of Vila-seca, Tarragona (June 2020-January 2021)..." Since 2014 he has published periodically in Bonart magazine. Between 1995-98 he worked at the Fundació Joan Miró from Barcelona.
Freelance curator and teacher based in Barcelona with a track record marked by her interest in photography and the visual arts. Since 1995, she has curated a significant number of exhibitions for institutions of renown: the retrospective dedicated to “Bleda y Rosa” (Kbr Mapfre Foundation, 2022) and “Guido Guidi. Da Zero” (LaVirreina. Center de la Imatge, Barcelona, 2021), a collaboration as an adviser to “Cámara y Ciudad” (Fundación La Caixa, 2020-2021) and the curatorship of "Photography as a public space" (Arts Santa Monica, 2018-2017). Retrospectives dedicated to Stephen Shore (2014) and Graciela Iturbide (2009), both for Fundación Mapfre. She Has published a large number of articles and essays in exhibition catalogs and magazines.
Degree in Art History and Modern and Contemporary History. Independent exhibition curator. Art critic. Professor of Art History and Aesthetics in the EFTI Master of Photography and various photography schools where she gives tutorials and workshops. Author of the photography blog “antevuestrosojos”. Author of the “Elogio de la Mirada” essay. Contributor to contemporary art publications. Director of Galería Cero until its closure in 2019. Vice President of the Platform for the Photography and Image Center. (http://antevuestrosojos.blogspot.com.es/)
Photographer, teacher, independent curator and art promoter. He is currently the director of the Alcobendas PhotoEspaña PIC.A International School of Photography. As a professor, he teaches classes in different photography courses, he is part of the faculty of the PHotoEspaña Master's Degree in photography, in addition to advising private collectors. From 2007 to 2020 he was Curator of the Alcobendas Photography Collection. As a teacher, he directed the photography department at the Arganda City Council from 1990 to 1997. Tenured professor at the TAI School of Visual Arts from 2012 to 2015. He has published more than one hundred and fifty articles since 1983 in numerous magazines such as Photo, Foto Profesional , Diorama – Foto, Revista FV, Europ-Art, El País, Diario El Mundo, ABC, Visual, La Fotografía… and also in books and catalogues.
Trained in art and creativity by the ALAS Artes en Movimiento Institute and in organizational and social innovation by the Institut Innova. She has developed her professional career in the field of strategic and corporate communication, specializing in the digital environment, the cultural sector, events, and festivals. Her artistic project is Chiquita Room, a contemporary art and creation center located in the Sant Antoni neighborhood of Barcelona, which operates as a gallery, artist residence, project producer and curator, artist book publisher, and inspirational school. As an entity, it is focused on interdisciplinary and collective work, with the desire to support local and international talent and with a deep commitment to listening to foster the creative potential of individuals and groups. Founded by Laura in 2018 as a legacy of the independent micro-publisher of artist books Chiquita Ediciones, which was born in 2013 and in which she participates as author and editor of several publications.
Independent curator and director, since its creation in 2017, of the Trobades & Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus de Menorca. She is also an active member of the Platform for the Center for Photography and Image.Graduated in History and with a DEA in International and African Studies from the UAM, she has worked at the Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo (Seville), the Egyptian Center for Culture and Art (El Cairo, Egypt) and at the African Film Festival of Rate (2005 – 2010). Until February 2016, she has been co-director of Masasam, a platform created in 2007 specializing in curatorial proposals and photographic images. For more than fifteen years, Sandra Maunac has tried to defend and promote, as a mediator, projects that have revolved around image-related issues. Her main objective during the first years of her career, as a specialist in postcolonial issues and cultural studies, was to promote artists from the non-Western orbit, in order to contribute other perspectives, change the hegemony of the predominant Western image and enrich our perceptions of the world. Currently, she concentrates her efforts from the local to the international. Always from an international, global, multiple and varied perspective, she is convinced that our responsibility is to eliminate cultural borders.
Cultural manager, independent curator, agent, editor and teacher of documentary photography. She has directed the Photographic Social Vision Foundation since 2001. She has worked at the Guggenheim in New York, at the CCCB in Barcelona and for World Press Photo in Amsterdam. As a young talent nominee, she collaborates with the Albert Camús Incipiens Award, the Leica Oscar Barnack Award, the Prix Pictet and the Joop Swart Masterclass scholarship. She has been jury for the Poy Latam, Luís Valtueña, FNAC Young Talent, and Luis Kasado awards. It represents photographic archives such as Joana Biarnés, Jacques Léonard, Isabel Azkárate, Leopoldo Pomés, Ferran Freixa, Manuel Outumuro and Oriol Maspons. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Committee that promotes the Generalitat's National Photography Plan.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, restoration, and photography. From 2001 to 2009 he was responsible of photography at the Hartmann Gallery in Barcelona. In 2009, he co-founded the Valid Foto BCN gallery, a gallery specializing in photography, where he currently works as a director. Since 2015, he has promoted BIPA, the Barcelona International Photography Award.
IEFC professor, essayist and curator. He regularly participates as a speaker, professor and jury in festivals and institutions, as well as in the curation of exhibitions and international photography conferences. His line of research focuses on the theory and practice of the poetic and narrative aspects implicit in the language of photography. As an essayist, he has published the following works: Corpografía. The body in contemporary photography (2012), Photographic Poetics (2014) and Photography and poetic motifs (2015), Photography as poetry (2018), and On the poetic image (2020
From 2012 to 2021 she has been the artistic director of the international visual narrative festival, Cortona On The Move, in Tuscany. Since 2016 she is the photography curator at PhEST, a contemporary art festival in Monopoli, Puglia, Italy. For 9 years, she was the director of the documentary photography magazine Ojo de Pez, published in English and Spanish by La Fábrica. In 2014 she was the guest curator of DOCfield, the documentary photography festival in Barcelona. Arianna began her path in the world of photography as director of the Magnum Photos archive in New York (1998-2001) and then in Italy, until 2004, as graphic editor for Colors magazine. From that year on, she began working as a freelance and consultant, collaborating with different publishers and national and international institutions. As a portfolio viewer, Arianna is invited to the most internationally recognized photography events such as Houston Fotofest, USA; Photolucida, Portland, USA; Format Festival, Derby; UK; Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea; Paris Photo Lensculture Meeting Place, France, among others. He is part of the selection committee for the British Journal of Photography "Ones to Watch", the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, and the Deutsche Börse Prize.
Josep Rigol (Barcelona 1953). Photographer and cultural manager. He exhibited in Europe and the USA. He coordinated Zoom magazine. He founded the magazines Ajoblanco and Papel Especial. Critic of El Correo Catalán, Guide to Leisure, La Vanguardia, Avui. He directed the Procés and Pentaprisma galleries. He organized the Catalan Conference on Photography (1980). He founded and coordinated the Photographic Spring (Generalitat 1982-2004). Curator of FotoPrés (La Caixa 1983-2010). He coordinated the White Paper on the photographic heritage of Catalonia (1986). Coordinator of the SCAN Tarragona festival (2008-2020). Founder of the Eurostars awards (2000-2023). Exhibition curator. ACCA Award for Art Critics 2018 for Curating. Fotoconnexió 2020 Award for Trajectory
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