Photography Congress
Sant Josep és Foto 2026
16 — 19 April
Congress hand programme. Tap on each speaker to expand their information and discover the photographic experiences planned for each day.
4 days
Talks, encounters and photographic journeys
12+
Sessions and presentations throughout the congress
Ibiza
Auditori Caló de s’Oli and experiences across the island
Photo
Documentary, landscape, authorship and contemporary visual culture
Hand Programme
Thursday 16
18:30
Accreditations
19:30
Opening Gala
With Vicent Roig Tur, Antonio Domenech, Joan F. Ribas and José Juan Gonzálvez.
20:00
Isabel Muñoz
La memoria del agua
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Title
La memoria del agua
Description
An immersion into one of the most poetic and distinctive strands of her career. In this talk, Isabel Muñoz will share how water transforms the body, light and gesture, turning the seabed into a space of memory, silence and emotion.
Her gaze brings together formal beauty, physical intensity and a profound reflection on fragility, life and the bond between human beings and nature.
Short bio
A Spanish photographer with a major international career since the late 1980s. She has held more than one hundred solo exhibitions in museums, art centres, festivals and galleries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions at institutions such as the Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía Museum, MoMA in New York, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and the Musée du Quai Branly.
Her work has been widely published and is included in major international public and private collections. Throughout her career she has developed projects centred on the body, dance, identity, anthropology, memory and the origins of humankind.
Recognition
Among many awards and distinctions, she has received Spain’s National Photography Prize, the World Press Photo, the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts, the PHotoEspaña Prize and the Medal of the Casa de Velázquez. She is a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
Friday 17
Morning
9:30
Accreditations
10:00 — 13:30
Photographic Journey · Gonzalo Azumendi
Sant Agustí
Experience
A morning to photograph at a relaxed pace and with a traveller’s eye. We will visit Sant Agustí, enjoy a popular food demonstration and round off the experience with a visit to the exhibition Circ + Anywhere alongside its author, Lluís Real.
Afternoon
16:00
Judith Prat
Aquella niebla, este silencio. Contranarrativas desde la fotografía
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Aquella niebla, este silencio. Contranarrativas desde la fotografía
Description
A visual journey through the traces of slavery, from Spanish ports to Africa and Cuba. A talk about memory, absence and historical responsibility, built through photography that does not illustrate, but questions.
Judith Prat understands the image as a critical tool, capable of opening cracks in official narratives and restoring presence to what remained hidden for far too long.
Short bio
Photographer and documentary filmmaker. Her work addresses issues such as human rights, power relations, territory, identity and the construction of collective memory, while also foregrounding women’s voices and experiences as axes of resistance and cultural inheritance.
In her latest projects, she delves into the research that precedes the photographic act and explores visual narratives that connect image and critical thought. She has exhibited at venues such as the Reina Sofía Museum, the Círculo de Bellas Artes and PhotoEspaña, as well as in cities including Bogotá, Quebec, Montreal, Moscow, Querétaro, Paris and Toulouse.
Recognition
She was nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack International Award in 2025, received the Sociedad Geográfica Española Image Award in 2024, and the Sabina de Plata for her career in 2021. Her work has been recognised in international festivals and awards and has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, Al Jazeera and The Guardian.
17:15
BAL·12 · Marina Cánovas
Proyecto voyeur: Éxitus
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Proyecto voyeur: Éxitus
Description
A photographic and autobiographical work that places the viewer in the role of voyeur. The series Éxitus emerged from the final days spent with her grandfather and becomes both a farewell and a tribute to a life drawing to a close.
Short bio
An artist born in Manacor. Her work revolves around life processes, metamorphosis, death, absence and the search for truth, exploring different formats and visual languages.
18:00
Gypsy Westwood
21 Year of Photographing Shoes
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Title
21 Year of Photographing Shoes
Description
A reflection on wedding photography as an artistic and creative practice, and on the experience of photographing a wedding from her own personal perspective.
Short bio
An Ibiza-born photographer raised in a creative environment. Her work grows out of observing everyday beauty and from a deeply personal relationship with the camera as a means of expression.
18:45
Marta Soul
Love after Love: archivo afectivo de nuestro tiempo
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Title
Love after Love: archivo afectivo de nuestro tiempo
Description
A visual investigation into the transformation of love, desire and contemporary identity. Marta Soul works with staged photography as a critical language through which to observe today’s emotional landscape, its fictions and contradictions.
Her talk proposes a journey through mise-en-scène, symbolic construction and contemporary intimacy, turning the image into a tool for reading our times.
Short bio
Marta Soul is a photographer, curator and cultural producer. Her artistic work focuses on mise-en-scène as a critical tool for exploring the tension between subject and appearance, questioning contemporary narratives of success, desire and identity in globalised contexts.
She has developed projects in cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Lagos and Abidjan, and her work has been exhibited in international institutions and festivals. She is the founder and director of Cómo Ser Fotógrafa, a platform devoted to supporting and making visible women photographers from Spain and Latin America.
Career
She has curated international projects in Europe, Africa and Latin America, taken part in festivals such as LagosPhoto, Africa Foto Fair and PhotoEspaña, and in 2026 will present a solo exhibition at Benrubi Gallery in New York.
19:45
Gonzalo Azumendi
UNIVERSO AZUMENDI. El oficio de fotografiar el mundo
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UNIVERSO AZUMENDI. El oficio de fotografiar el mundo
Description
A lecture about a life in motion. Gonzalo Azumendi will revisit decades of travel, commissions and visual discoveries to share what it means to photograph the world without losing curiosity, emotion and the capacity for wonder.
A humanistic, passionate and deeply travel-driven gaze that brings together experience, intuition and craft.
Short bio
One of the most inspiring travel photographers of our time. He has built a career spanning more than forty years as an international freelance photographer and has devoted his life to capturing, with a unique and passionate eye, some of the most extraordinary corners of the planet.
For fifteen years he documented World Heritage sites for UNESCO and since then has travelled through mountains, deserts, jungles and lost cities, always pursuing a dream image. With a degree in Psychology, he brings to his work a deep interest in the human being and a personal, honest gaze open to the everyday surrealism of life.
Career
He has contributed to thousands of editorial projects, exhibitions, lectures and publications. He is the author of the book Universo Azumendi, and the RTVE-2 programme Detrás del instante devoted an episode to his career and his way of understanding photography.
Saturday 18
Morning
9:30
Accreditations
10:00 — 13:30
Photographic Journey · Gonzalo Azumendi
Sa Caleta · Sant Josep · Can Jeroni
Experience
We will visit one of the most photogenic corners of the island, Sa Caleta, with a stop at its interpretation centre. Afterwards, we will head to Sant Josep to visit the exhibition Toni Catany, La meva Mediterrània. El viatge, at Can Jeroni.
Afternoon
15:15
BAL·24 · Alba H. Massanet
Adobar
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Adobar
Description
A project about Es Molinar, in Palma, and its transformation over time. A look at the neighbourhood, its identity, and the processes of gentrification and social change.
Short bio
A photographer born in Palma and based in Ibiza. She has taken part in group exhibitions and authorial projects, and was a finalist in Fotografia ArtJove 2025 with Adobar.
15:45
Lluís Real
Video screening of the photographer’s early work
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Format
Video screening of the photographer’s early work.
Short bio
A photographer born in Maó and trained in London. He has built an extensive career between editorial commissions and personal practice, with particular relevance within the Menorcan scene.
16:15
Ai Futaki
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Profile
Two-time Guinness World Record holder in freediving and Ocean Ambassador for Japan’s Ministry of the Environment.
Description
Her interdisciplinary work brings together the human body, the sea, image-making and ocean awareness. She has participated in TEDx Tokyo and in international exhibitions.
17:00
Joan Costa
The Lost Identity of the Ibizans
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The Lost Identity of the Ibizans
Description
A reflection on Ibiza as a paradigmatic case of identity loss, accelerated transformation, and the clash between local tradition and outside pressure.
Short bio
A photographer with a wide-ranging career in press, travel, science, ethnographic and underwater photography. He won a World Press Photo award in the Nature category in 2012.
17:30
Joe Cornish
A Landscape Photographer’s Story
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A Landscape Photographer’s Story
Description
A personal journey through a career devoted to landscape, contemplation and the relationship between photography and nature. Joe Cornish will reflect not only on the evolution of his own gaze, but also on the role of the photographer in a time marked by environmental fragility.
A talk about craft, patience, printing and a sense of wonder in the face of landscape.
Short bio
A professional photographer since 1980, Joe Cornish lives in North Yorkshire, England. His professional work spans large-scale commissions and editorial projects, with the National Trust as a regular client. He has led countless workshops, guided visits, seminars and one-to-one sessions, in addition to lecturing and writing.
He is a passionate thinker about the role of photography and has a strong interest in the global environment. He co-founded the website On Landscape, prints all his own work, and his photographs are part of international collections.
Career
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and was the first chair of its Landscape Distinctions panel. His recent books include Scotland’s Mountains, Scotland’s Coast, The Northumberland Coast, This Land and Still Time to Wonder, among others.
19:00
Emilio Morenatti
El oficio de mirar y el compromiso con la realidad
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El oficio de mirar y el compromiso con la realidad
Description
A conversation about more than three decades of photojournalism, from local press to the international coverage of conflicts, crises and major events. Morenatti will share how to sustain a personal gaze when what lies before you is pain, urgency and truth.
A talk about ethics, experience and commitment to reality.
Short bio
Emilio Morenatti is a renowned Spanish photojournalist, awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for his documentary coverage of crises and conflicts for Associated Press. Raised in Jerez, his career has been shaped by work in war zones and complex social contexts in the Middle East and Pakistan.
He currently heads AP’s photography department for Spain and Portugal. Throughout his career he has covered the Perejil islet crisis, was kidnapped in Gaza in 2006, and lost a foot to a bomb in Afghanistan in 2009.
Recognition
In addition to his two Pulitzer Prizes, he has received the Ortega y Gasset Prize, the Mingote Prize, and multiple honourable mentions at World Press Photo. His work stands out for portraying the human impact of conflicts and crises, backed by more than thirty years of experience in high-risk photojournalism.
21:15
Outdoor Event
Sunday 19
10:00
BAL·24 · Xavier Duran i Herrera
Vida y Obra
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Vida y Obra
Description
A project born from architecture and construction photography that focuses on the dignity and social value of the workers portrayed in their professional environment.
10:30
BAL·36 · Pep Pérez Castelló
Arrabal
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Arrabal
Description
A documentary project about seven elderly women living alone in the old district of Santa Catalina in Palma, where memory, solitude and urban transformation converge.
Short bio
A documentary photographer and Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of the Balearic Islands. His work explores memory, identity and human relationships from a psychological and social perspective.
11:15
Family Photo
11:45
Lynn Goldsmith
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Profile
One of the great photographers of contemporary popular culture. For decades, her work has shaped the public image of musicians, artists, actors, athletes and iconic figures in international culture.
Short bio
Over the last 60 years, Lynn Goldsmith’s photographs have appeared on the covers of Life, Newsweek, Time, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic Traveler, People, Elle, Interview and The New Yorker, among many others. Her subjects have ranged from entertainment figures and sports stars to filmmakers, authors and anonymous people on the street.
Seventeen books of her images have been published. New Kids, published by Rizzoli, made the New York Times bestseller list, a rare achievement for a photography book. In 2024 she published Patti Smith Lynn Goldsmith with Rizzoli, a collaboration with Patti Smith.
Career
In the early 1980s she expanded her creative practice into music and video, becoming a pioneer of what became known as optical music. She produced the album Dancing For Mental Health and collaborated with artists such as Sting, Steve Winwood, Todd Rundgren and Nile Rodgers. Her career has been marked by innovation, risk and constant reinvention.
In this session she will share a lifetime behind the camera: intuition, access, portraiture and a way of seeing that has accompanied the visual history of music and culture in our time.
* The schedule may change for technical reasons.
