Silvia Omedes

Director of Photographic Social Vision


  • Edition jury:
  • 2020

She has a degree in Fine Arts from the New School for Social Research in New York and a master’s degree in management functions from ESADE. She is a cultural manager, independent curator, photographer’s agent, editor and professor of documentary photography. 

Since 2001, she has directed the Photographic Social Vision Foundation. She has worked at the Guggenheim in New York, at the CCCB in Barcelona, and for the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam as Secretary of the Jury for the 2018 edition of the competition. As a nominator of young talent, she collaborates with the Incipiens Albert Camús Award, Leica Oscar Barnack Award, and the Joop Swart Masterclass. 

She represents photographic archives of national authors such as the first woman photojournalist Joana Biarnés and the French photographer Jacques Léonard. She is an archive management consultant for the photographers Mey Rahola and Isabel Azcárate and for the Oriol Maspons Archive. Since 2014 she is a member of the Committee of experts that promotes the National Plan of Photography of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

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