PHotoFUNIBER’25 Jury
Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo
Architect, National University of Colombia; Best Degree Works 2005-2006, UNAL; Colfuturo Scholarship Holder 2007; Master’s Degree (merits) in Photography and Urban Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Outstanding Graduate, National University of Colombia 2018, category “Research or Artistic and Cultural Creation.”
Visual curator of the Final Report and curator of the group exhibition “Conflict and Peace” of the Commission for the Clarification of the Truth, Colombia. National Award in Social and Human Sciences 2023 – Alejandro Ángel Escobar Foundation, “Cuando Los Pájaros No Cantaban: Historias Del Conflicto Armado En Colombia,” Testimonial Volume of the Colombian Truth Commission. Editor of Raya Editorial and AñZ, Expanded Photography of Latin America.
Founding member of 20 Fotógrafos, Colectivo+1, and RadioFoto. He has published the books “El pez muere por la boca” with Raya Editorial and Matiz Editorial, “Lucía” with INFRAMUNDO, “Patria o Muerte” with La Luminosa, and “Colombia, Tierra de Luz” with Universidad de Caldas Editorial, among others.
Winner of Publicación Futura FELIFA Award 2018. Honorable Mention of the Futura FELIFA Award 2016, Author’s Photobook Fair (Fola/Turma). Finalist in TINTA-LimaPhoto, Cosmos PDF Award, Arles, Fiebre Photobook Award 2017, 4 Vienna Photobook Fair Review, 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize, First PhotoBook Paris Photo/Aperture with “Esos que Saben” by Oscar B. Castillo/Raya Editorial.
Selected for the Hydra Photobook Incubator in Mexico, Lisbon Book Fair 2017, and CLAP! – 10×10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks 2000-2016, New York.
Winner POY Latam “Nuestra Mirada”; Call for Photo Galleries of the Photography Center of Montevideo-CDF; artist residency SMArt Programme-Switzerland; Verzasca Photo Festival 2023-Switzerland; Cairotronica 2025-Egypt, KG+SELECT 2024; Kyotographie-Kyoto, Japan; 2024 Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival-United Arab Emirates; Cosmos PDF Award 2024; APHF:24-Athens Photo Festival; SPBH Space-Milano; FORMAT24 Open Call-UK; Panoramic Festival 2022-Barcelona; Critical Mass 2023 TOP 50-Photolucida; PhMuseum Days 2023-Bologna; Helsinki Photo Festival 2022; FOTOFESTIWAL 2023-Poland; portfolio review, Festival of Light-Photographic 2015; IDARTES Memories of the Future; and of the Publicación Futura FELIFA Award 2018. Finalist of 9th SIPF 2024-Singapore International Photography Festival; LensCulture Art Photography Awards 2024; Aperture Portfolio Prize 2023; Latin American Panorama of PhotoVogue 2024; and Les Rencontres of the Photographie Marrakech 4th Edition.
Participation in numerous festivals and meetings in several countries. He has also served as a lecturer, juror, professor, and workshop leader. Workshop for Skillshare Teach Lab – Latin America. X-Photographer for Fujifilm Colombia. Resident NFT Voice+PhotoVogue 2022. TEDx Speaker. Mentor and nominator of “Joop Swart Masterclass.” Nominee of “Joop Swart Masterclass” and “6×6 Global Talent” – World Press Photo; “Ones to Watch” – BJP; Foam Paul Huf Award 2023; and Graphic Portfolios of the magazine El Malpensante. Guest interviewer for Bronx Documentary Center Latin American Photo Festival and Baudó Public Agency.
@escobart @rayaeditorial
FotoApp: @santiagoescobarjaramillo @raya
Gisela Volá
Gisela Volá lives in Argentina and works at the intersections of visual creation, education, and collective work.
In 2004 she co-founded the Cooperativa Sub, a project that has been operating for fifteen years in Buenos Aires and that investigates the creation of a collective identity and the realization of photographic research within the Latin American territory.
In 2014, Volá founded La Plataforma, an education program for the development of visual narratives. She is currently a member of the VistProjects Foundation, a space that promotes and disseminates visual narratives in Latin America from and with the communities that raise their voices and where she is the pedagogical director of the ECO festival, a meeting of Ibero-American groups.
As an Educator, she has been a mentor in Women’s Photography Mentoring Program; Activator in MUFF, program of the CDF, Photography Center of Montevideo, Uruguay; professor in the Master of Photography at Efti school, Madrid, Spain; professor at Arcos Viña del Mar school, Chile; Santa Usina de ARTE in Argentina, among others.
Volá has participated in exhibitions in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain, United States, and France.
She has also been a member of the jury for the World Press Photo Contest in 2023 and is a nominator for the 6×6 Global Talent Program and is part of the advisory board of the POYLATAM contest.
Gisela Volá in social networks:
Instagram: @giselavola
Mayra Martell
She has developed her documentary work mainly in Latin American regions on the issue of enforced disappearance.
In 2021, she was awarded the Spanish Ankaria Photo award, as well as a residency grant in Barcelona under the tutelage of Joan Fontcuberta.
In 2020, she is part of the photographic collection The Wittlif Collections at the University of Texas. Her book Ciudad Juárez, published by the German publishing house Seltmann and Söhne, was nominated for the European competition Deutscher fotobuchpreis. Her Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) and Petare (Venezuela) books are part of the CLAP! festival. 10X10 Contemporary Latin American Photobook.
She has conducted research on femicides and the disappearance of women in Latin America, drug trafficking, migration, human trafficking, among others.
All her projects are linked to social activism.
She is currently working on the U.S.-Mexico border in the field of education, creating audiovisual laboratories for teenagers living in this area where violence has affected the entire community.
Her work has been published in Rolling Stone magazine, Vice, Aperture, among others.
Ig: @mayra.martell
