BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The institution’s governance and representative body, responsible for defining the projects it will undertake, approving budgets and annual accounts, and establishing principles of action.
Silvia Omedes
Founder and President
Independent curator, cultural manager, photographers’ agent, editor, and professor of documentary photography. Has been the director of Photographic Social Vision Foundation since 2001 in Barcelona. Began her career working as exhibition coordinator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. As a visual editor, she has worked for the publishing house Blume and the magazines OjodePez. She combines visiting lectures on documentary photography in different private and public schools in Spain with the creation of alternative photography projects that challenge our society and shed light and create awareness of social issues worldwide.
She has taught at the Gris Art School in Barcelona, at IDEP, the IEFC, at EFTI in Madrid and at the Masterclasses organized by the World Press Photo Foundation in Europe and Latin America. She has been a jury for the 2015 and 2017 FNAC Young Talent awards, the LUX awards, the POY Latam awards and the 2020 Luis Valtueña Award. She is a nominee of young talent for the Joop Swart Masterclass scholarships in Amsterdam, for the Incipiens Albert Camus scholarship and for Leica’s Newcomer Award (LOBA Award). In 2018 she was Secretary of the Jury of the World Press Photo Awards in Holland.
As a photographer agent, she offers consulting services to both individual authors and collections, providing better management skills and strategies for the professional exploitation of photographic archives. Her clients include the first woman photojournalist in Spain, Joana Biarnés, and the heirs of the Jácques Léonard Family Archive. Since 2014 she is a member of the Impulse Commission for the National Photography Plan of Government of Catalonia.
Vera Baena
Founder and Secretary
It was her interest in personal development, especially that of children and of society’s most vulnerable groups, that motivated her involvement in the founding of Photographic Social Vision. Vera has had a multifaceted career as businesswoman, executive, and consultant: co-founder of Kukis-Fiesta, a leader in the production of decorated cookies in Spain, she has also been director of organization and development at Caprobo and consultant to the prestigious international human resources firm of Watson Wyatt. A lawyer with a specialization in business law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and an MBA from IESE Business School, she is currently finishing her degree in psychology. Her goal is to continue developing initiatives on behalf of the youngest and poorest members of our society. Born in Madrid, she lives in Barcelona with her husband and four children.
Leopoldo Blume
Member of the Board
Graduated with a degree in modern history from the Universidad Central de Barcelona. Director since 1989 of Editorial Blume, a publishing house founded over forty-five years ago which focuses on photojournalism, photography, and art, among other subjects. Its catalogue includes titles by numerous internationally renowned photographers, including Gervasio Sánchez, Sandra Balsells, Miquel Dewever-Plana, Andoni Canela, Rena Effendi, Karl de Keyser, Kim Manresa, Gideon Mendel, Richard Misrach, Susan Meiselas, Lana Slezic, and Pepe Navarro, in addition to many others. Leopoldo is a member of the Premio Europeo de Editores de Fotografía (EPAP) and has served on the juries of numerous photography awards in Spain.