Social action
The soul of the Foundation
Photography has a transformative power. Over the years, we have repeatedly proven that learning to express oneself visually helps people connect with their inner selves and their surroundings. That’s why we bring the language of photography to vulnerable groups in participatory photography workshops. We also work to help citizens learn to interpret images in a society saturated with them. Faced with the threat of misinformation and the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, we believe it is urgent to educate visually. To this end, we conduct guided tours of photography exhibitions and develop educational projects that reach more than 7,000 adolescents each year.
Visual education
Through photography workshops, we foster creativity and an approach to photography from different angles. We promote learning through experience and the development of personal and collective skills through image creation and the study of visual language.
We design and develop proposals for all types of audiences and groups (companies, schools, collectives), with flexible duration and format.
Participative photography workshops
We defend photography as a way to a personal and social transformation. Our activities use photography as a tool to inform, express, question, inspire, and integrate values, fostering creative learning through experience.
World Press Photo Exhibition
Our team of guides walk the public through the exhibition to delve deeper into the stories behind the winning images and better understand the world.
Team
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Anthropologist 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.
Mireia has been collaborating with Photographic Social Vision since 2005 as a teacher and artistic coordinator of participatory photography workshops, and promotes projects in the area of Social Action.
She has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (UB) and in Photography from the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia (IEFC). Her doctoral thesis, “Photography and intimate narratives. From individual creation to shared creation”, explores the potential of photographic creation to make visible the intimate realities of people, often linked to painful, conflicting or silenced experiences. She has also completed the Master’s in Artistic Teacher Training from the UB, the Master’s in Art Therapy at IATBA and the Postgraduate Course in Body and Art by AlasBcn.
She is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UB and co-directs the Postgraduate Course in Visual and Therapeutic Pedagogy of Image at Instituto 8 and the UB. He also teaches at CITEM at the UPC, at the Master’s in Artistic Mediation at the UB and at the Postgraduate Course in Body and Art at AlasBcn.
Her photographic work has been exhibited in several individual and collective exhibitions, including the Cidade da Cultura in Santiago de Compostela, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Valid Foto Gallery in Barcelona and Roca Umbert, Fàbrica de les Arts.