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Discover the featured projects at the LASAL Festival Photographic Reviews
14.07.2026
At the second edition of LASAL, we offered Photographic Reviews. The review team would like to highlight the following works.
An author rescued from oblivion in the exhibition “Joaquín Tusquets de Cabirol: Eloquent Form.”
15.06.2026
"Eloquent Form" exhibition will be open to the public from June 18 to September 6. It features the work of Joaquín Tusquets de Cabirol.
The exhibition “Anna Turbau. En veu pròpia” unveils unpublished work by this woman pioneer of photojournalism
09.06.2026
The Palau Robert inaugurates the exhibition “Anna Turbau. En veu pròpia”, an exhibition that reveals the personal world of the photojournalist.
2nd edition of LASAL. Mediterranean Festival of Journalism and Photography
06.06.2026
The Photographic Foundation is once again organizing the LASAL festival.
Star Photobook Dummy Award Jury 2026
22.05.2026
Meet the jury members for the 2026 edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award, our annual award for photobook dummy designs.
Yufan Lu presents “Make Me Beautiful”, winner photobook of the V Star Photobook Dummy Award
13.05.2026
Yufan Lu presents the photobook Make Me Beautiful, which has been published thanks to winning the fifth edition of our Star Photobook Dummy Award.
Exhibition of the 5th edition of “Sensitive Material”
06.05.2026
We celebrate the fifth exhibition of Sensitive Material, a project about the expressive and transformative potential of photography.
Open call for Photographic Reviews at LASAL
20.04.2026
The Photographic Foundation offers a professional portfolio review space aimed at photographers and visual authors working on documentary photography.
Exhibition “Poquita sangre”, by Claudia Toledo
23.03.2026
“Spain is at the top of the list of countries with the highest percentage of births to mothers over 40 in Europe, and also among the countries with the fewest births per year. The difficulties women face in balancing motherhood with their work and social lives explain this phenomenon.” So says Claudia Toledo, a documentary […]
«Local Is Global» Exhibition
03.03.2026
Exhibition "Local Is Global. Banco Sabadell Art Collection - Documentary Photography" begins its tour.
“Bagong Bayani”, by Axel Miranda, winner of the VII Beca Joana Biarnés
18.01.2026
It has been chosen by the jury of the 7th edition of the Beca Joana Biarnés Grant, our scholarship for young photojournalists, among the three finalist projects. “Bagong Bayani”, the scholarship project This is a study of the Philippine diaspora in Spain and the unequal relationship established between our country and its former colony. In […]
Yufan Lu wins the V Star Photobook Dummy Award
21.10.2025
Make Me Beautiful powerfully embodies many of the values championed by the Star Photobook Dummy Award, while maintaining a keen sense of irony and originality.
Finalists of the fifth edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award
14.10.2025
Once again, the Star Photobook Dummy Award distinguishes some of the best photobook projects in the world, while it pays tribute to the creativity and values of the late graphic designer Inés Casals.
Azkarate exhibits in New York
14.10.2025
The exhibition Isabel Azkarate. She Is Her Camera can be visited at the Instituto Cervantes in New York (United States) until January 18, 2026, in collaboration with Kutxa Fundazioa and the Etxepare Institute.
Star Photobook Dummy Award Jury 2025
04.06.2025
Check out the jury members for the 2025 edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award.
Mohamed Hassan wins the IV Star Photobook Dummy Award
24.10.2024
'Our Hidden Room', by Mohamed Hassan, photobook dummy winner of the fourth edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award.
Shortlist for the 4th Star Photobook Dummy Award
23.10.2024
The Star Photobook Dummy Award celebrates its fourth edition, with the finalists!
Star Photobook Dummy Award Jury 2024
23.05.2024
Check out the jury members for the 2024 edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award, our annual award for photobook dummies.
Publication of ‘I Imagined it empty’ photobook, the III Star Award winner
25.04.2024
The winning project of the third edition of our Star Photobook Dummy Award has become a reality. The photobook I Imagined It Empty, by the American artist Ruth Lauer Manenti is now on sale.
Exhibition «Isabel Azkarate. Arte y parte» in San Telmo Museum
29.01.2024
The exhibition “Isabel Azkarate. Arte y parte” shows the relationship between human beings and art and can be visited at the San Telmo Museum until May 2024.
“Isabel Azkarate”, retrospective exhibition in San Sebastián
01.12.2023
A retrospective of Isabel Azkarate, considered the first female photojournalist in the Basque Country, is inaugurated, which presents her essential photographic legacy still little known to the general public and which is now coming to light to complement the history of women photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition titled “Isabel Azkarate” can be […]
Ruth Lauer-Manenti wins the III Star Photobook Dummy Award
10.10.2023
The Star Photobook Dummy Award has chosen the winning photobook dummy in its third edition. It is “I Imagined It Empty”, by the American photographer Ruth Lauer-Manenti. The Jury of this edition has selected this project as the winner, after selecting it as one of the 12 finalists for the Award, among the more than […]
Finalists of the third edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award
07.10.2023
The Star Photobook Dummy Award celebrates its third edition and, shortly, we will announce the winning photobook dummy. The nominators of the 2023 edition presented more than 100 photobook dummies as candidates, coming from more than 35 countries and with a slightly higher number of women participants than men. The jury of this edition of […]
First retrospective of Jacques Léonard
23.05.2023
The exhibition Jacques Léonard. L’esprit nomade (The nomadic spirit) is the first retrospective exhibition of Jacques Léonard and will be held from May 27 to October 1, 2023 at the Musée Réattu in Arles (France), organized by the Photographic Foundation in collaboration with the museum of fine arts in this city. This is a very […]
Jury of the Star Photobook Dummy Award 2023
23.05.2023
These are the jury members for the 2023 edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award, our annual prize for photobook dummies. In this edition, the jury will be composed by: Organized by the Photographic Social Vision Foundation, in collaboration with the publishers Phree, Ediciones Posibles and RM, the Star Photobook Dummy Award offers the opportunity […]
Ferran Freixa in Milan
14.04.2023
LEGGI QUI IN ITALIANO Coinciding with the prestigious Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milano 2023, the Photographic Social Vision Foundation brought to Italy the work of our represented archive Ferran Freixa, who so elegantly knew how to capture the essence of architecture, hint at the inner life of objects or reflect the passage of time in […]
Interview > MATEUSZ KOWALIK, winner of the 2nd Star Award
09.03.2023
The photobook project Devil’s Rib, by Polish author Mateusz Kowalik has won the second edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award, an initiative from Photographic Social Vision Foundation, in collaboration with the publishers Phree, Ediciones Posibles and RM, who give advice in the final phase of the process, take charge of producing and printing the […]
Joana Biarnés’ fashion exhibited in Madrid
21.02.2023
Today that Joana Biarnés is already recognized as an essential figure in the history of photography in the Iberian peninsula, it is also necessary to rediscover her look at the world of fashion. Because the first female photojournalist in Spain was also the female pioneer in fashion photography in the same country and even one of […]
‘Demotanasia’, by Adra Pallón, wins the IV Beca Joana Biarnés
16.01.2023
In January 2023, we announced that Adra Pallón, a documentary photographer from Lugo (Galicia), is the winner of the IV Beca Joana Biarnés (a scholarship for young photojournalists) with his proposal Demotanasia. La muerte silenciosa de una cultura, su gente y territorio. Los últimos del rural (Demothanasia. The silent death of a culture, its people […]
Mateusz Kowalik wins the II Star Photobook Dummy Award
06.11.2022
The Star Photobook Dummy Award already has a winning photobook dummy for its second edition, it is “Devil’s Rib”, by Polish photographer Mateusz Kowalik. This dummy was presented as a candidate for the Award by Krzysztof Candrowicz, co-founder of the Lodz Festival in Poland and one of the international nominees for the Star Award 2022. […]
Finalists of the second edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award
07.10.2022
The Star Photobook Dummy Award celebrates its second edition and, shortly, we will announce the winning photobook mockup. The nominators of the 2022 edition submitted a total of more than 150 photobook mockups as candidates, from forty countries and with a slightly higher number of female participants than male. The jury for this edition of […]
Exhibition > “Diaries”. Pomés, Maspons and Masats return to France during Les Rencontres d’Arles
12.07.2022
At the beginning of July 2022, coinciding with the Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles festival, the event that makes this city in the south of France the epicenter of international photography, we inaugurated the collective exhibition “Diaries” at the Anne Clergue gallery. This exhibition brings together the work of our indispensable Leopoldo Pomés, Oriol […]
Exhibition > “Toros y toreros”, with works by Pomés, Maspons and Masats together for the first time in France
13.04.2022
On April 16, 2022, the Anne Clergue gallery in Arles (Provence, France) opens the collective exhibition “Bulls and Bullfighters”, which can be visited until May 14 and in whose conception and organization the Photographic Foundation has collaborated. It is a black and white journey through the world of bullfighting and its surroundings, from the 1950s […]
Jury of the Star Photobook Dummy Award 2022
08.04.2022
These are the members of the jury for the 2022 edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award, our annual award for photobook dummies. In this edition, the jury will be composed by: Organized by the Photographic Social Vision Foundation, in collaboration with the publishers Phree, Ediciones Fáciles and RM, the Star Photobook Dummy Award offers the […]
Santi Donaire wins the III Joana Biarnés scholarship for young photojournalists
07.02.2022
Santi Donaire, a photojournalist from Jaén, is the winner of the III Joana Biarnés Scholarship for his proposal “Hasta que la tierra aguante. Retrato de la agricultura y ganadería industrial en España y sus consecuencias ambientales, humanas e identitarias”. Thanks to the Joana Biarnés Scholarship, the author will have 8,000 euros to carry out photographic […]
Samuel Nacar exhibits “Cartas a Mariví”
26.01.2022
The documentary photographer Samuel Nacar, who in 2021 won the II Joana Biarnés Scholarship for Young Photojournalists, shows the results of his scholarship project in the exhibition “Cartas a Mariví. La búsqueda de nuestra generación para encontrar un lugar en este mundo”, which you can visit from February 4 to March 19 at Efti – […]
Interview> IGNACIO COLÓ, winner of the 1st Star Award
22.12.2021
The photobook project “Eduardo & Miguel”, by the argentinian author Ignacio Coló, has won the first edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award, an initiative from the Photographic Social Vision Foundation, in collaboration with the publishers Phree, Ediciones Posibles and RM, who give advice in the final phase of the process, take charge of producing […]
Ignacio Coló, winner of the first edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award
04.10.2021
The winner of the first edition of the annual prize Star Photobook Dummy Award is “Eduardo & Miguel”, by Ignacio Coló. Read our interview with the author at this link. The project tells the story of Eduardo and Miguel Portnoy, two 53-year-old twin brothers who live in Buenos Aires and have never been separated since they […]
EXHIBITION> “TSIGANES” by Jacques Léonard in Canada
03.09.2021
For the first time, Jacques Léonard‘s work is exhibited outside of Europe. The exhibition is part of the international festival Rencontres internationales de la photogaphie en Gaspésie, held in Québec (Canada). Until September 30, 2021, the images can be viewed against an exceptional natural background: the Miguasha National Park. Visitors will be able to enjoy […]
Jury of the 1st Star Photobook Dummy Award
14.05.2021
These are the jury members for the first edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award. In this first edition, the jury will be composed by: Organized by Photographic Social Vision Foundation in collaboration with three publishing houses: Phree, Ediciones Posibles and RM, the prize offers the opportunity and the support to publish a photobook on […]
Winners of the World Press Photo 2021
15.04.2021
The World Press Photo of the Year goes to “The First Embrace”, the photograph by Danish Mads Nissen for Politiken / Panos Pictures. In the winning image, Rosa Luzia Lunardi (85) is embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza, at Viva Bem care home, São Paulo, Brazil, on 5 August 2020. Among the 6 […]
Star Photobook Dummy Award dedicated to Inés Casals
07.04.2021
Inés Casals, our real star. © Amparo Tamarit In 2021, we launched the first edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award an annual prize organized by Photographic Social Vision Foundation in collaboration with three publishing houses: Phree, Ediciones Posibles and RM. The Award is born as a tribute to Inés Casals (1970-2020), art director, graphic […]
Nominators Star Photobook Dummy Award
07.04.2021
In 2025, the fifth edition of the Star Photobook Dummy Award is launched. This annual prize is organized by the Photographic Social Vision Foundation in collaboration with the publishers Phree, Ediciones Posibles and RM. These are the international professionals who have been invited to nominate photobook dummies to the 2025 Star Award: Name (Country) Institution/Media […]
The environment and social protests, winners at World Press Photo 2020
22.04.2020
We already know the winners of the international photojournalism and digital narrative competitions organized by the World Press Photo Foundation, which will be part of the exhibition that can be visited in Barcelona, from November 13 to December 20 at the CCCB, with the support of the Fundació Banc Sabadell. Among the winners, the World […]
World Press Photo 2020 Barcelona is postponed to November
25.03.2020
Following the recommendations of the health authorities regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the Photographic Social Vision Foundation has decided to postpone the World Press Photo 2020 exhibition, postponing it to autumn. The exhibition, which brings together the authors and winning projects of the World Press Photo 2020, the world’s most prestigious photojournalism contest, can be visited […]
World Press Photo 2020 Nominees
25.02.2020
Three Spanish photographers are among the nominees for the World Press Photo 2020 awards! They are the Ricard García Vilanova and Ramon Espinosa from Barcelona, and Antonio Pizarro Rodríguez from Seville. We congratulate them effusively from the Photographic Social Vision Foundation, thanks to which Barcelona will once again be one of the first cities in […]
So long to DOCfield
23.12.2019
Photographic Social Vision says goodbye to DOCfield to address new social challenges through photography After a thoughtful evaluation process, DOCfield says goodbye. There have been six valuable editions of the Documentary Photography Festival of Barcelona and it’s been a pride for Photographic Social Vision to have contributed them to the cultural agenda of the city. […]
Exhibition > ‘Mirades de futur’
12.06.2019
Now exhibiting the images taken by the girls and boys participating in the new edition of the mentoring and photography project for youth under guardianship, organized by the Punt de Referència association, in which we have participated for the third consecutive year, advising and teaching specific classes from the Education area of Photographic Social Vision. […]
Project > ‘Material sensible’ 2019
04.06.2019
Photography to recover personal power A new edition of “Material sensible” (Sensitive Material) was launched on March 2019. It’s the participatory photography project promoted by the Education Area of Photographic Social Vision that, together with the Vicki Bernadet Foundation, accompanies people who suffered sexual abuse in childhood. During this time, the group of participants, all […]
UTOPIA MARKETS > Pep Escoda
08.05.2019
Pep Escoda will picture you at Utopia Markets Photo! Would you like to be portrayed by a high-level professional photographer? Well, the excellent portraitist Pep Escoda, author of many covers for Icon magazine and member of Photographic Social Vision, will be available this weekend at the fourth edition of Utopia Markets Photo, along with other […]
#WPPh2019 > Panel with Catalina Martin-Chico and Lula Gómez
29.04.2019
Among the free activities of the World Press Photo 2019 exhibition in Barcelona, on May 2nd, 2019, Photographic Social Vision has organized at the CCCB the panel discussion “Living After the War: Colombia, When the Conflict Is No Longer It’s News”. Marcela Ospina, journalist and director of Public Engagement at Oxfam Intermón, will present as […]
FERIA > Art Photo BCN
29.04.2019
The festival of emerging photography Art Photo Bcn celebrates its sixth edition by establishing new headquarters at the Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, during May 3rd, 4th and 5th, for its photography fair, in which Photographic Social Vision participates along with other entities, galleries, curators and photography schools. On our stand, we will exhibit work […]
Interview > Javier Arcenillas about Latin America
05.06.2018
©Javier Arcenillas Photojournalist Javier Arcenillas, winner of the third World Press Photo 2018 award in the category of Long-Term Projects with “LatidoAmerica”, tells of his experience in the continent to Silvia Omedes, Director of our foundation. Silvia Omedes (SO) What does it mean to you to have won a World Press Photo? Javier Arcenillas (JA) […]
BasqueDokFestival Screenings
01.06.2018
Photographic Social Vision collaborates with the BasqueDokFestival screening a selection of audiovisual productions of heterogeneous narratives on themes related to travel and migration, memory and identity. The screening will include works by the authors Gerard Boyer, César Dezfuli, Oscar Dhooge, Àngel García, Camilla de Maffei, Cristina Níspero, Diana Rangel, Jordi Ruiz Cirera and Pablo Tosco. The […]
In conversation > Daniella Zalcman
26.04.2018
Daniela Zalcman Of the 51 winners of the World Press Photo 2018 exhibition, only five are women. These are figures that can be shocking, and the easy answer would be that “the world is only seen from the eyes of male editors and photographers”. There have been contests, like this one, that have done […]
Interview > Silvia Omedes, all about WPP
26.04.2018
Interview conducted by Josep Maria Codina. First of all, Silvia Omedes is the founder and head of Photograpic Social Vision (PSV), a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of photography from a wide range of perspectives for more than seventeen years and which today plays a very important role among the actors in our […]
Exhibition > World Press Photo 2018
12.03.2018
April 28th through May 27th at the CCCB Museum World Press Photo 18, the most important exhibition in the field of photojournalism, returns to the CCCB Museum in Barcelona from April 28th to May 27th inclusive. The city is once again home to the world’s award-winning photographs, many unpublished and unpublished in national media, offering […]
DOCfield Dummy Award Fundació Banc Sabadell
28.09.2017
OPEN CALL! We call for entries for the 4th edition of DOCfield Dummy Award Fundació Banc Sabadell, which consists in the limited edition publication of a photobook valued at 3.000 euros, selected by an expert jury. Application dummies must reflect the theme of this festival edition, the journey. With this initiative, DOCfield Barcelona wants to contribute to the consolidation and the […]
Exhibition > “Hasta que la tierra aguante”, by Santi Donaire
20.06.2023
“Spain is the third largest exporter of fruit and vegetables in the world, only after the US and China.This position places our country in a leading position within the global industrial food production.To be world or European leaders in food productionsuch as mango, avocado, strawberry, olive oil or pork,means that territory, its natural resources and […]
In conversation > Daniel Beltrá, an awardwinner
26.04.2018
© Daniel Beltrá. Paradise Threatened Born in Madrid and based in Seattle, Daniel Beltrá is a photographer who has dedicated himself over the last 28 years to photographing different natural disasters. This year he has been awarded for his work “Amazonas: Paradise Threatened” at the World Press Photo 2018 exhibition, in the Environment category. […]