The Foundation
The Photographic Social Vision Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to the social value of documentary photography and photojournalism.
We organize exhibitions that raise awareness of current challenges and promote photographic creation with scholarships, awards, and professional consulting.
We carry out participatory photography and visual education projects for schoolchildren, vulnerable groups, professionals, and the general public.
We keep 20th-century photographic archives alive, preserving and promoting them through books, exhibitions, and the sale of prints and licenses.
Mission, values and goals
Since 2001, the Photographic Social Vision Foundation has been working to promote documentary photography as a way to build a more conscious and better-informed society.
Our commitment is:
- To foster critical opinion and reflection on current events.
- To raise awareness about social issues through documentary photography.
- To promote photojournalism and good documentary practices as necessary tools in a democracy.
- To support the professional development of documentary photographers.
- To safeguard the right to information without manipulation or censorship.
- To promote visual education among citizens, especially adolescents.
- To convey that images are not objective but an interpretation of reality.
- To facilitate access to photography as a way of expression for personal transformation and social inclusion.
- To keep our photographic heritage alive, as a part of our collective memory.
Our commitment is:
- To foster critical opinion and reflection on current events.
- To raise awareness about social issues through documentary photography.
- To promote photojournalism and good documentary practices as necessary tools in a democracy.
- To support the professional development of documentary photographers.
- To safeguard the right to information without manipulation or censorship.
- To promote visual education among citizens, especially adolescents.
- To convey that images are not objective but an interpretation of reality.
- To facilitate access to photography as a way of expression for personal transformation and social inclusion.
- To keep our photographic heritage alive, as a part of our collective memory.
Join us
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Support our organitzation and help us to build a more conscious and better-informed society.
For over 20 years, the Photographic Social Vision Foundation has championed the potential of documentary photography to inform, raise awareness, and transform people.
By supporting our non-profit organization, you help us keep alive essential photographic legacies that are a memory of our shared history.
You also help us stimulate visual creation and strengthen the photography sector through scholarships, awards, and professional mentoring.
Who we are
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Graduated 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.
Graduated in Humanities and Journalism, she has been dedicated to cultural communication for more than twenty years, combining the design, planning and execution of press campaigns with the work of freelance editor for different publications.
Currently, she manages the press departments of music festivals such as Sónar; from art events such as Barcelona Gallery Weekend or Swab; galleries such as the legendary Sala Parés or the Chiquita Room artistic space, and photographic events such as the Bienal de Fotografía Xavier Miserachs, Panoràmic Festival or the World Press Photo exhibition in Barcelona, as well as exhibitions of Joana Biarnés, Jacques Léonard, Manuel Outomuro or Isabel Azkarate, thanks to collaborating with the Photographic Social Vision Foundation.
In addition, she collaborates with the Live Music Yearbook of the Association of Music Promoters and with the Music Yearbook of the Enderrock Group, she is a professor at the International Music Business School, and has published two books: Barcelona ètnica. Els millors restaurants de cuina exòtica (Ara Llibres), finalist of the Gourmand Cookbook Awards 2010, and Grandes Mujeres, el lado femenino de la historia (Editorial Oceano).
Graduated in Design with mention in Visual Communication from Bau, Barcelona University Center for Arts and Design, a few years later she completed the Master of Motion Graphics at the same center.
She began her professional activity in design studios that worked for cultural institutions, such as the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, MACBA, Arts Santa Mònica… both in catalog design, spread and exhibition design. A few years later she began to work independently with institutions and artists. With the help of Inés Casals, she began to collaborate with the projects of the Photographic Social Vision Foundation and became passionate about photography. Since 2017 she has been the art director of the Foundation and responsible for the creative direction of projects such as World Press Photo Barcelona, DOCfield (Barcelona Documentary Photography Festival), Material Sensible or the Joana Biarnés Scholarship.
In addition, she works as a consultant for companies and entities helping brands to have their own imaginary and formal and conceptual coherence.
She combines her professional activity with teaching design at Bau, Barcelona University Center for Arts and Design, and at the Open University of Catalonia.
Collaborating entities
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Our headquarters: Villa Alegre
Villa Alegre is a welcoming late 19th-century house where the Photographic Foundation team works and where we host both our own and external activities.
It features:
- A showroom of photographic work for sale from our represented archives, where presentations and training sessions are also held.
- A library specialized in photography and photobooks, available for free consultation for Photographic Members.
- A courtyard garden, an oasis in the middle of the city, where we hold presentations, talks, debates, photography markets, and other activities.
Press
Check out some of our media appearances here.
CONTACT RESPONSIBLE FOR PRESS
Teresa Vallbona
+34 679 802 176
premsa@teresavallbona.com
Press release about the exhibition “Anna Turbau. En veu pròpia” [ES]
Press release about “Make Me Beautiful”, V Star Award photobook [ES]
Press release about the 5th edition of the participatory project “Sensitive Material” [ES]
Press release about the photo of the year of World Press Photo 2026 [ES]
Press release about our digital photo archive platform
Press release about “Visual Literacy and Adolescence” report [ES]
Press release about the 2024 report: photography festivals in Catalonia [ES]
