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Elisa Medde new director of the Foto Colectania Foundation
Pepe Font de Mora retires and leaves office after twenty-five years
Pepe Font, after twenty-three years, is retiring and will leave his position as director of the Foto Colectania Foundation, although he will continue to be linked as an external advisor. The new position will be held by Elisa Medde with more than fifteen years of experience in the international field, having worked as an editor, curator, artistic director and teacher. Her career has focused on the critical exploration of the relationships between image, power and communication structures, from an interdisciplinary perspective and committed to visual languages and archives.
Elisa Medde takes up the position on October 1st and states: “It is with great joy that I assume the position of director of Foto Colectania, continuing the extraordinary path traced by Mario Rotllant and Pepe Font de Mora, in what I feel is a very natural and exciting step in my own career. Foto Colectania is a beautiful institution, with deep roots and solid branches, and I am excited to join such an outstanding team, with which I hope to serve the valuable community that the entity has managed to cultivate.”
The Foto Colectania Foundation of Barcelona has as its main mission the dissemination of photography and photographic collecting in the social, artistic and educational fields both locally and internationally. It preserves more than 3,000 photographic works by at least 80 authors from Spain, Catalonia and Portugal, the majority from 1950 to the present day. It includes the legacy of the photographer Paco Gómez, donated in 2001, and contributions from other private collectors.
Pepe Font de Mora, who will continue to be linked to the Foundation as an external advisor to the Collection, explains that "Foto Colectania has been for me the place where I have been able to carry out many unimaginable projects, in the company of photographers, collectors and various photography enthusiasts. The different teams and collaborators who have carried out so many programs have contributed their value, and this generous point of enthusiasm, which has turned the foundation into a welcoming and necessary center. The dream that Mario Rotllant already visualized in its beginnings, continues to be restless and I am sure that it has a fascinating future".
