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We are a team that sometimes expands to include other collaborators in function of the project we are working on. Our open, responsive, multidisciplinary character is reflected both in minor daily tasks and in large projects. We work as a team, sharing the values of the Foundation and a deep passion for what we do.
Photographies: Paola de Grenet, Maite Caramés, Marina Balagué, Imma Cortés and Valeria Fossati.
Direction
silvia.omedes@fundacionpsv.orgIndependent curator, cultural manager, photographers’ agent, editor, and professor of documentary photography. Has been the director of Photographic Social Vision Foundation since 2001 in Barcelona. Began her career working as exhibition coordinator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. As a visual editor, she has worked for the publishing house Blume and the magazines OjodePez. She combines visiting lectures on documentary photography in different private and public schools in Spain with the creation of alternative photography projects that challenge our society and shed light and create awareness of social issues worldwide.
She has taught at the Gris Art School in Barcelona, at IDEP, the IEFC, at EFTI in Madrid and at the Masterclasses organized by the World Press Photo Foundation in Europe and Latin America. She has been a jury for the 2015 and 2017 FNAC Young Talent awards, the LUX awards, the POY Latam awards and the 2020 Luis Valtueña Award. She is a nominee of young talent for the Joop Swart Masterclass scholarships in Amsterdam, for the Incipiens Albert Camus scholarship and for Leica’s Newcomer Award (LOBA Award). In 2018 she was Secretary of the Jury of the World Press Photo Awards in Holland.
As a photographer agent, she offers consulting services to both individual authors and collections, providing better management skills and strategies for the professional exploitation of photographic archives. Her clients include the first woman photojournalist in Spain, Joana Biarnés, and the heirs of the Jácques Léonard Family Archive. Since 2014 she is a member of the Impulse Commission for the National Photography Plan of Government of Catalonia.
Education Area
alice.monteil@photographicsocialvision.orgAnthropologist graduated in social sciences, with a master of research degree from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in France. Her master’s research centered on the construction of the photographic image in the documentary genre. In 2006 she joined Photographic Social Vision, where she is currently in charge of the Education section and a member of the teaching team of the Punt de Vista workshops, an educational project created more than ten years ago to work with vulnerable social groups. She has been training as a Gestalt therapist since 2009 and currently practices in both individual and group formats at the Escola de l’Esser, while broadening her knowledge of psychopathology through the UNED.
Education Area
mireia.plans@fundacionpsv.orgMireia joined Photographic Social Vision in 2005, working as a teacher and coordinator of the Punt de Vista workshops and in the Education section. A graduate in fine arts from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and in photography from the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya, she earned a master’s degree in art teaching from the UB, with further post-graduate work in art and corporality at the Alas Artes en Movimiento studio in Barcelona.
Since 2001 she has worked as a freelance photographer for companies and institutions such as Fundació “la Caixa,” Burberry Spain, Dockers, Arts&Claus, Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona, Agència Catalana de la Salut, Museu Picasso de Barcelona, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona , and Museo DHUB. Her personal photographic work has been exhibited in several individual and collective shows, such as the Cidade da Cultura in Santiago de Compostela, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Galeria Valid Foto in Barcelona. She is an adjunct professor in the school of fine arts of the UB and visiting professor in the master’s program in landscape architecture at the UPC.
Education Area
educacion@fundacionpsv.orgCultural Manager from the University of Barcelona, specialist in projector management and executive production. She considers herself a cultural activist. An actress by profession, she dedicates her life to the design, creation and production of community projects using art as a tool for social transformation. In her long career as a cultural manager and producer, she has specialized in culture and territory. She works as a cultural adviser for different towns and cities in Catalonia, has worked for TrànsitProjectes coordinating artistic projects and she collaborates with the Ramón Llull University in the Master’s Degree in Digital Art Curation, currently also holds the position of Secretary of Culture in l’ Professional Actors and Directors Association of Catalonia.
Projects Area
teresa.martelo@fundacionpsv.orgProjects Area
ines.munoz@fundacionpsv.orgGraduated in Arts and Design from the Escola Massana, she continued her training with different specialization courses of the Creation and Reflection Photography itinerary of the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia. Her design studies and knowledge about the image encouraged her to focus her professional career towards the production and dissemination of projects in the field of photography and visual arts. She studied the Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at the University of Barcelona and did her internship at the Photographic Social Vision Foundation.
Among other experiences, she has collaborated with the Foto Colectania Foundation as a fellow in the area of exhibitions and activities and has been coordinator of the ArtsLibris artist book fairs in Barcelona, ARCOmadrid and ARCOlisboa in their 2022 edition.
In September 2022, she joined the Photographic Social Vision team again.
Professional Area
imma.cortes@fundacionpsv.orgArchitecture has been the way to understand her environment, and the tool to develop her visual capacity. After training in architecture schools between Barcelona and Milan, photography came into her life unexpectedly in one of the first jobs she found when she returned to Barcelona.
After twenty years working in photographic production, she studied at the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia, and it was then that she put herself behind a camera.
Since 2015 she has been a researcher for the Joana Biarnés Archive from the Professional Area of the Photographic Social Vision Foundation. Her project “Journey to a file” recounts the personal experience of 5 years of work with Biarnés.
She currently combines commercial photography with research and divulgation of other photographic archives represented by the Foundation.
Professional Area
marina.balague@fundacionpsv.orgA graduate in Communications from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Marina first became a member of the foundation’s communications department after attending a course on exhibition design. She has since gone on to coordinate workshops, events, and exhibitions aimed at the development of documentary photographers.
More recently, she has specialised in the conservation and management of photographic archives, studying at l’Escola Superior d’Arxivística at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya. Currently, from the professional area of the foundation, she is involved in cataloging and disseminating the work of various photographers.
Professional Area
maria.planas@photographicsocialvision.orgGraduated in history, manager of quality systems, postgraduate in development cooperation and extensive training related to the visual arts. He has combined different jobs related to his academic training with the management and cataloguing the work of different plastic artists, organization and curator of exhibitions, coordination of cultural publications and collaboration with entities related to cultural dissemination. She is the director of the Xavier Miserachs Biennial of Photography and manager of photographic collections.
Communication
carlosg.vela@fundacionpsv.orgPassionate about culture, especially the arts that involve narration and image, he grew up surrounded by music in the family business, the Barcelona record store Surco, today the oldest in Catalonia.
He graduated in Journalism from the UAB and worked for two decades as a cultural journalist for numerous publications, specializing above all in film and music, and was also chief editor of Grupo Zeta and Grupo Godó magazines. It has also collaborated with festivals such as the Sitges film festival, the electronic music festival Sónar and the musical documentary In Edit Barcelona.
Simultaneously, he managed the communication of various events and artistic projects and dedicated five years to the communication and cultural programming area of the FNAC stores in Barcelona, plus another two years in the communication department of the Elisava university school of design. In 2018, he began collaborating with Photographic, assuming responsibility for the Foundation’s communication at the end of 2020.
In addition, he has studies and experience in scripting and audiovisual production. He has solo travelled through regions of Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Costa Rica and both coasts of the US. His curiosity is insatiable, and writing is his preferred form of expression.
Communication
comunicacion@fundacionpsv.orgGraduated in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), she has always been sensitive to social causes. As a result of a deep concern to apply theory to practice, in 2014 she studied the Master in Social Policies and Community Mediation of the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP), which allowed her to work on citizen participation projects of the Barcelona City Council. At that time, she came into contact with the associative movement in the city, to which she joined as a volunteer in communication and awareness campaigns.
She assumed a very active role in the creation of digital strategies and content in different organitzations, highlighting her transmedia narrative, and the Las Kellys project was the one that established a turning point. In 2018, she decided to become a professional in digital marketing and moved to Madrid to study the Master in Digital Marketing at Aula CM, carrying out her first jobs in small agencies and Third Sector organitzations.
Since her return to Barcelona, she has continued studying in order to be always updated and, at the beginning of 2022, she became part of the communication team of the Photographic Foundation.
