Participants
Pepe Baeza
Pepe Baeza (Valencia, 1955), has a degree in Journalism and a Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and is editor-in-chief and pictures editor of La Vanguardia’s ‘Magazine’ Sunday supplement. He was a press photographer for ten years (1978-88) and since then has been pictures editor on El Periodico de Catalunya, El Observador and La Vanguardia; he also teaches the Photographic Genres and the Theory and Technique of Photojournalism courses in the UAB’s Faculty of Communication Sciences, where he co-directs a Master’s in image editing and a Ph.D. course. He has taught and given seminars and lectures on photography and the communications media at various universities and cultural institutions. He is the author of Por una función crítica de la fotografía de prensa [For a Critical Function of Press Photography] (Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2001 and 2003), and has published articles on the image and society in academic journals and specialist and general interest magazines, as well as prologues and texts for exhibition catalogues. He also occasionally curates exhibitions and acts as a coordinator of cultural activities.
Clemente Bernad
Clemente Bernad (Pamplona, 1963), took his degree in Fine Arts, and since 1986 has been working as a documentary photographer, with a strong interest in social issues. A member of the Contrasto Agency, his most acclaimed work includes ‘Jornaleros’ [Day Labourers], a project he carried out in Chiapas after the Zapatista revolution, ‘Mujeres sin tierra’ [Women without Land], and ‘Basque Chronicles’, on the political conflict in Euskal Herria. He has taken part in various communal and cultural projects, and was included in the exhibition Chacun à son goût at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. In 1999 La Fábrica devoted a volume of their Photobolsillo series of photography paperbacks to Bernad’s work. In 2002 he published Canopus, on the economic crisis in Argentina, and in 2004 El sueño de Malika [Malika's Dream], the subject of his first documentary film. He has recently worked in Latin America, the Middle East and Spain, where he has just completed ‘Donde habita el recuerdo’ [Where Memory Dwells], on the exhumation of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War. In addition to his work as a freelance photographer, his current activities include teaching and writing.
Ignacio Ramonet
Ignacio Ramonet (Redondela, Pontevedra, 1943), has a Ph.D. in Semiology and History of Culture from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and was editor-in-chief of the Spanish edition of the monthly Le Monde Diplomatique for seventeen years. He regularly writes opinion columns for the newspapers El País (Galician edition), Público (Madrid), Elephtherotypia (Athens, Greece) and Hintergrund (Germany), and covers international politics for the Kyodo News agency (Tokyo, Japan) as well as sitting on the editorial board of Telesur (Caracas, Venezuela). A specialist in geopolitics and international strategy (he is a consultant to the United Nations in New York), he is the president of the Association Mémoire des Luttes in Paris and a co-founder of the NGOs ATTAC and Media Watch Global as well as being one of the sponsors of the World Social Forum. He has been Professor of Communication Theory at the Université Denis-Diderot (Paris VII), and visiting professor at various universities in other countries. He has received numerous awards for his work as a journalist, and has honoris causa doctorates from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), the Universidad de Córdoba (Argentina) and the Universidad de La Habana (Cuba). He is the author of some twenty books, including Le Chewing-gum des yeux (A. Moreau, Paris, 1980), Cómo nos venden la moto (with Noam Chomsky: Icaria, Barcelona, 1995), Internet, el mundo que llega (Alianza, Madrid, 1998), La Tyrannie de la communication (Galilée, Paris, 1999) and La crisis del siglo (Icaria, Barcelona, 2009).