Lock-in vol.6

Space for the reviewing and questioning  issues related to the image and creation. Talks and dialogues throughout the day, morning and afternoon, with food included, in a relaxed atmosphere. A remote place, with no escape, neither for speakers nor for assistants.

Experiments With the Image

9:45 – Presentation and welcome

10:00 – From the artistic direction
Gonzalo Golpe – Independent curator, La Troupe
Alberto Salván – Designer, Three Graphic Types
Moderated by Jon Uriarte

11:20 – From the institution to the independent collective
Marta Weiss – Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum
Der Greif – Curators, editors y designers
Interviewed by Alejandro Castellote (independent curator)

12:30 – Coffee Break

13:00 – Curatorship, education and cultural management expanded
Silvia Omedes – Photographic Social Vision
María Santoyo – Efti
Moderated by Jon Uriarte

15:00 – Two photographers rambling
David Jiménez – Photographer
Julián Barón – Photographer
Interviewed by Alejandro Castellote

Participants

Marta Weiss
Curator of the Victoria & Albert Museum

Marta Weiss is curator of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She joined V & A in 2007 after two years in the MET Photography Department. She holds a BA in Art History from Harvard and a Master’s and a PhD from Princeton in the same field, always focusing on the history of photography. She has organized and published books and essays on topics ranging from Victorian photocollage to contemporary Middle Eastern photography. Weiss is the curator of the international traveling exhibition Julia Margaret Cameron, and author of the accompanying catalog, Julia Margaret Cameron: photographs to electrify with delight and scare the world.

David Jiménez
Photographer

He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the UCM. For 25 years he has been developing personal projects in the format of books, exhibitions and audiovisuals, with images full of ambiguity and subtlety that take you from the everyday  to the poetics. His works have visited  cities such as Rotterdam, Warsaw, Arles, Turin, Athens, Seoul, Bogota, and  many Spanish cities. He received the award Revelation Photographer in PHotoEspaña 99 and the Arts Award of the Villa de Madrid 2008. He has published five books, including Infinito, considered one of the pioneers of the photobook in our country.

Julián Barón
Photographer

Barón studied  Industrial Engineering. He left his job to be part of the Blank Paper collective in Madrid. In the last decade he has developed a body of work that reacts to an agitated socio-political context and that connects his work with teaching and coordination of projects of didactic character. In 2011 he published his first book C.E.N.S.U.R.A., with which he received the honorable mention in the First PhotoBook Award, Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation. He currently coordinates the online project imagenred.org, a pedagogical, collaborative and transversal profile, promoted by the Fotocolectania Foundation.

María Santoyo
Director of EFTI’s Masters in Photography

She holds a degree in Art History from The Complutense University of Madrid, researcher and professor specialized in the history of photography and image analysis, María Santoyo has eighteen years of experience in the cultural sector, more than thirteen dedicated to the direction and management of projects, exhibitions and specialized teaching, activities that she has been developing independently since 2014. She currently combines the curating of exhibitions with the direction of the International Master of Photography at the EFTI school, a position she has held since 2017. As curator, she is responsible for exhibitions such as La bailarina del futuro: de Isadora Duncan a Joséphine Baker, Houdini: las leyes del asombro, Julio Verne: los límites de la imaginación o Nikola Tesla: suyo es el futuro, presented at Fundación Telefónica between 2014 and 2018.

Gonzalo Golpe
Independent editor and curator

He holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and  in Publishing and Publication of Texts by the University of Deusto. He is a specialist in desktop publishing and graphic production. From 2010 to 2013 he managed Siete de un Golpe, a workshop specialized in the self-publishing of photobooks, artist editions and graphic production. Since 2014, he has been part of La Troupe, a collective of graphic arts professionals dedicated to the work of the author, both in its editorial and expository aspects. Golpe collaborates as an editor in The Portable Photo, a collection of author applications by contemporary Spanish photographers, powered by espadaysantacruz Studio. He manages the collection of 64P photographic essays for La Fábrica Editorial, with which he collaborates as an independent editorial board.  He would also curates artistic projects occasionally.

Der Greif
Editors and curators

Designers, independent curators and innovative editors based in Munich. Der Greif is an organization awarded for contemporary photography. It is a printed publication, online publication, curatorial team and joint project, all at the same time. The artistic core and root of the project is the print publication free of advertising. It combines and presents the works of photographers and authors from different origins in a holistic work of art. Der Greif has worked with institutions such as FOAM, Aperture Foundation, C/O Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur and has published works by approximately 1,000 photographers and artists in print and online publications.

Silvia Omedes
Independent curator

She is a cultural manager, independent curator, photographers agent, editor and professor of documentary photography. Her professional experience begins as a coordinator of exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum and continues at the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. She founded and directed from the Photographic Social Vision Foundation in Barcelona, ​​and since June 2013 she has directed the Doc Field Barcelona international festival. As graphic editor, she has collaborated with Blume publishing house and Ojodepez magazine and is a member of the advisory committee of the magazine 7.7 and La Maleta de Portbou. She is a guest lecturer in the Photoperiod of the UAB, in the Master of Photography of the Instituto Europeo di Design in Madrid and in the masterclass organized by the World Press Photo Foundation in Europe.

Alberto Salván
Tres Tipos Gráficos

Alberto Salván holds a degree in Graphic Design by the Istituto Europeo di Design. In 2003, he co-founded the graphic design studio Tres Tipos Gráficos in Madrid. There, they focus their activity on editorial design, branding, packaging and digital graphic developments. His work in the co-direction of Tres Tipos Graficos has been recognized in several awards and contests such as Premio Gràffica 2015, D & DA 2015, various Laus between the years 2010-15, Top Fedrigoni Award 2013, Type Directors Club 2012 and PhotoEspaña Best book of National Photography 2012, among others. In the field of plastic arts, where he develops projects around the image and its representation canons, it is worth highlighting awards, recognitions and exhibitions such as Foam Talent (Amsterdam), finalist FotoPress La Caixa’14, P2P-PHE’14 or New Spanish Photography. Visions beyond borders, (New York).

Jon Uriarte
Photographer and educator

He is an image activist. He began a wide range of participatory activities in photography that include the Photobook Club Barcelona (2011-2014), and Widephoto, a contemporary photography program that in its first two editions has organized talks, workshops and dinners with photographers like Joan. Fontcuberta, Taiyo Onorato-Nico Krebs, Julian Barón, Cristina de Middel and Aleix Plademunt. His blog “Blog en Bruto” has been a reference in theory and writing of photography for the new scene of young Spanish photography. His work has been exhibited at photography festivals, collective and individual exhibitions all over the world, and has been published internationally by Stern, The New York Times and La República, among many other publications. He has lectured at Museums and Art Institutions as well as Arts Santa Mónica (Barcelona), Arteleku (Donostia) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Photobook Bristol, among others. He is also a professor of photography at IDEP in Barcelona and EFTI in Madrid.

Alejandro Castellote
Independent curator

From 1985 through 1996 he was director of the Photography Dept. at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, where organized the photo-festival FOCO (1985 to 1989). He has been curator and co-founder of PHotoEspaña, Madrid (1998 to 2000). In 2003 he curated MAPAS ABIERTOS. Fotografía Latinoamericana 1991-2002. He has served as guest curator for the X Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2006; Getxophoto, Bilbao (2007 through 2009); the Latin American section of Biennale Photoquai (Museum Quai de Branly) 2007-2009, Paris; Seoul Photo Fair 2010, Korea and the Singapore International Photography Festival 2012. He was director of the Daegu Photo Biennale 2014, Korea; guest curator of the ChangJiang International Photography & Video Biennale, Chongqing, and the Image Triennial of Guangzhou 2017, China. From 2014 through 2016 he has been director of the Latin American Master of Photography and Visual Arts at the Centro de la Imagen of Lima, Peru.