What are we?
EXPERIENCE AND TEST. Experimentalphotofestival is a non-profit cultural association that aims to create, promote and disseminate experimental photography in all its forms. To this end, we consider it essential to create an international community of artists who can support each other, recognize each other on an equal footing and create shared projects.
Our way of thinking and organizing the festival is based on the belief that it is through experimentation and testing that the full exercise of equality, freedom and creativity is exercised. We want to create spaces for creation, reflection and the exchange of knowledge where proximity prevails between artists from all over the world that stimulate and provide feedback on their practices.
The time has come to put the experimental as an attitude in the center of photography.
This artistic practice has existed, resisted and insisted since the very creation of photography, and its fertile ground has been the peripheries, where the canons of the established and the absolute truths do not reach. Our intention is to strengthen and spread our own story by offering the experimental artistic community a space in which to exhibit their works, thoughts and share their techniques, their searches and concerns. We are an association in permanent search of different expressions from a transdisciplinary perspective, since we understand that photography is nourished by film, video, painting, architecture, music, sculpture, dance and other artistic and social expressions.
The Experimental Photo Festival is the culmination of the annual work of a large number of artists who take advantage of this moment of pause to meet, share knowledge and create shared projects. The International Experimental Photography Festival is possible thanks to the support of the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya and the Pati Llimona Civic Centre and the tireless work of a team of 14 people and 40 volunteers. Every year, more than 300 international artists and photography lovers meet with the aim of generating a common space to share, learn and discuss experimental photography in its many facets: from the creation of cameras, lenses and films to the processes of printing, intervention and production of copies, exhibitions and photobooks. Among the activities organised are discussion panels, presentations of projects and experiences, collective laboratories of photographic projects, workshops and collective and individual exhibitions.
THE FUTURE
IS EXPERI- MENTAL
AND NONCON-
FORMIST
The future is experimental and nonconformist and is in dialogue with other arts, in the mixture of languages and projects. Experimentation is experience rather than results.
About us
LAURA LIGARI
Graduate in Languages, Arts, and Cultures with a master's degree in Photography and Graphic Design. She works as a graphic designer and serves as the co-director of the International Festival of Experimental Photography. Through her photography and the work of emerging artists, she seeks to foster inclusivity and empathy.
Co-director, in charge of design, dissemination, editorial and back office
PABLO GIORI
With a PhD in Contemporary History, a master's degree in Communication and a master's degree in Cultural Studies, he serves as co-director of the International Festival of Experimental Photography and Agora, School of Experimentation, combining academic knowledge with practical experience. His mission is to inspire transformative change through teaching and cultural management to understand the future of photography.
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Co-director, in charge of the program, budget and subsidies
ASTRID JACOMME
Half chemical engineer, half self-taught photographer. Editor and collaborator in the cultural magazine Le Cool Barcelona and the magazine Instant Photographers. Traveler without borders. Addicted to concerts, street art, pineapple pizza and Angela Davis' lectures. In love with the city of Barcelona from the first day, she never tires of wandering through its streets with her Polaroid camera.
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Exhibition curator
ARANTXA BERGANZO
She studied physics and humanities, but is actually a colony monitor. Equal parts teacher and mother, he cycles from end to end of Barcelona every day. Crazy about her family and friends, she likes to read, dance, laugh, learn and try new things all the time. He researches urban art things and is dying to do something one day, who knows...
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Exhibition curator
EMILIANO COVELLO
He holds a Master's degree in Cultural Management, a Bachelor's degree in Art Management, and a Higher Technician's degree in Photographic Imaging. He founded the Terrero Rev laboratory, specializing in analog photography, where he supported artists in their projects and conducted research on the materiality of photosensitive processes. His interest lies in contributing to deepening cultural democracy through photography. He strives to live by the philosophy that nothing is lost, everything is transformed.
Subsidies, accounting and production manager
GAL WACHS
Passionate photographer with a degree in Photography Direction. Photographer, workshop leader and technician at La Revelona, a laboratory and production company, of which he is the creator. Bathroom baritone (he has a shower; his voice is missing). He firmly believes in experimentation and testing as a means for art to constantly question itself. Proud owner of a Hotmail email account.
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Responsible for workshops, materials and international conflicts
PEDRO PEREIRA
Completed a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and is currently pursuing a master’s in Digital Entrepreneurship. He is a travel enthusiast and loves to learn languages and read. You will probably find him in a book club or a tandem event in Barcelona.
In charge of dissemination, marketing and back office
CRISTINA SÁNCHEZ
Pota blava by birth and inveterate traveler. She has been capturing moments for as long as she can remember.. Dreamer, brave, fighter and strong, very strong. Sushi monster. Administrator and founder of Grisphoto and Estudi25.
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Director of the photography department
PALOMA DUARTE
Graduated in Photography, visual artist. For many years, she has researched eroticism and infused it into her art. Experimenting with Photoshop is her expertise, as is expanding her expressiveness with texts, paintings, and folk songs. She loves silence and nature as much as drinking mate in the morning.
Art Swap Manager
TONI CB
Person, passionate about technology and fond of photography. He loves listening to music, traveling and getting to know new cultures and people, and learning, never stops learning. Always ready to help.
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In charge of registration and new technologies
AGUS DOZ COSTA
Graduate in Theater, multifaceted producer and Master's student in Cultural Management in Barcelona. Transfeminist and vegetarian by conviction. Lover and activist of the bonds created and watered from love.
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In charge of exhibition and Art Swap production
SIMON HELU
He studies Philology & Roman Cultures and Theater for non-conventional spaces. He writes monologues and recites. He has published two books of poetry and short stories. He taught himself photography and specializes in capturing movement artists. He loves traveling by bike and freestyle dancing.
In charge of artists, registrations and Art Swap
LA VERDADERA NONA POP
Self-taught par excellence, he has studied and worked simultaneously in photography, film, early childhood education, cocktails, car mechanics, theater, and wrestling was on his mind. Soul of a swallow, tongue of a parrot (because it is talkative, not because it is harsh) and the stomach of a mouse. And since four eyes see more than two, she hits the REC instead of the SHOOT.
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Director of the audiovisual production department
JUAN MANUEL CLAVIJO
Colombian farmer living in Barcelona, whose goal has already been achieved: studying photography at the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya. Creator and editor of Mixology in Action, he loves cocktails, beer, and music. He lives to travel and spread peace of mind. Inequality bothers me greatly, which is why I also do photojournalism and street photography.
Photography Manager
PAULA MULATTI
Chilean architect dedicated to heritage and landscape, Master in Cultural Management. He began photography out of innocence and ended up framing his world in 35mm. She is a member of Cooperativa Atkins, a community of photographers and alternative processes founded in Valparaíso. Pilgrim of parties and birthdays, afraid of piñatas and hard sports, taster of thresholds and corners, inevitably moved by good intentions.
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In charge of workshops and artists
FRAN ANDRADES
He studied for 3 years to be an aeronautical mechanic, but no, analogue photography, laboratory processes and experimentation led him to work as a "lab-guy" developing film and experimenting with anything.
Lover of patatas bravas and dystopian books.
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In charge of registrations and workshops
