Silvia Omedes Alegre (Barcelona, 1971) trained as a photographer and art historian until, between collections and projects of the New York Guggenheim, where he worked for a few years, the learnings crossed. Pioneer of yes, we canshe returned determined to be a photographer and, when she heard Sandra Balcells and Paco Elvira That this was of no interest to anyone and that his photographic stories were kept in a drawer, he thought it couldn’t be.
He activated his side of Cultural manager and in 2001 he created Photographic Social Visiona foundation whose objective is to defend the value of documentary photography as a tool to understand the world and promote social change: “Photojournalism is a story of direct testimonies that interprets reality,” he maintains. “He photojournalism traditional, from when there was only one broadcast channel, press or television, has disappeared. That view is no longer hegemonic. But now the stories are trivialized, there is no time for anything and the images are not digested,” he adds.
An antidote is to visit exhibitions, such as the one at World Press Photo that the foundation organizes in Barcelona, and browse photography books: “Editing photobooks is showing the complete story of reality. The books remain, and the author can reflect and mature the project. A photo book fulfills the objective of informing, exciting and challenging, and elevates photography to the category of art”.
In Sant Jordithe foundation organized a photobook fair with eight publishers, author signatures, presentations and the volumes of Joana Biarnés and Isabel Azkarate that the entity has edited together with Blume, “which is what it’s like to edit at home,” she says satisfied.
