Talks
Lock-in vol.13
When: May 30, Saturday
Time: 9:30 – 14:30
Place: Punta Begoña Galleries (Ereaga dock 6)
Price: 20€
A remote location, with no escape for speakers or attendees. A morning of conversations with fascinating people about aspects related to contemporary imagery. A space for unhurried dialogue, uncomfortable questions and debate without a safety net. Because if there is one thing that an anniversary like Getxophoto’s demands — twenty years, two decades of image — it is to get together to talk about change, reworking, recycling and reinvention; about life cycles and celebrations; about individual or collective stories of resetting. Lock-in as a method. RESET as an excuse.
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Program
9:30 – Presentation and welcome
09:45 – Ask me anything (in Spanish)
Cristina de Middel – Artist (Alicante)
Jorge Carrión – Writer and cultural journalist (Barcelona)
11:00 – Coffee break
11:30 – Reset the collection (**in English with translation)
Annabelle Lacour – Curator of Photography at the Musée du Quai Branly (París)
Elisa Medde – Director of Foto Colectania (Barcelona)
María Ptqk – Getxophoto’s Curator (Getxo)
12:50 – 12:50 – Manipulate the file – The possibilities of AI and photographic archives (in Spanish)
Alejandro Acín –IC Visual Lab and artistic director of Bristol Photo Festival (Bristol)
Victoria Ascaso – Visual Artist (Bilbao)
Jon Uriarte – Getxophoto’s Digital Curator (Hondarribia)
14:10 – Closing and bonus track
Speakers
Cristina de Middel
Photographer and Visual Artist
Born in Alicante in 1975, Cristina de Middel is a photographer and visual artist. In 2012, she produced the acclaimed series The Afronauts, sparking a decade of work on the role of photography in the creation of stereotypes. In addition to her prolific career as an author, she has been invited to curate festivals such as Lagos Photo in Nigeria, PhotoEspaña, and San José Photo in Uruguay. She has published more than 14 photography books and her work is exhibited in various institutions and spaces around the world. She has been a finalist and received numerous awards, including the Photo Folio Review at Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, the Deutsche Börse Prize or the Infinity Award from the International Centre of Photography in New York, among others. In 2017, she received the National Photography Award and in 2022 she became a member of Magnum Photos agency, serving as its president between 2022 and 2025. She is also on the board of Vist Projects, a platform supporting Latin American visual storytelling.
Jorge Carrión
Curator, critic and cultural journalist
Born in Tarragona in 1976, Jorge Carrión is a writer, curator, critic, cultural journalist for La Vanguardia, and co-director of the Master’s Degree in Literary Creation at UPF-BSM. He was a columnist for seven years for The New York Times and The Washington Post. His essays include Teleshakespeare and Lo viral, and his novels include Las huellas, Membrana and Todos los museos son novelas de ciencia ficción. He is also the author of the podcasts Solaris, Ecos and Gemelos digitales, the documentary series Booklovers, and the scripts for several graphic novels and art exhibitions. He has won, among others, the Ondas Award, the Ciudad de Barbastro Novel Award, the Ciudad de Badajoz Journalism Award, the Zenda Innovation Award and the Serra d’Or Critics’ Award. His work belongs to the Galaxia Gutenberg catalogue. He has been translated into fifteen languages.
Anabelle Lacour
Curator of the photographic collection at the Musée du Quai Branly
Born in Marseille in 1989, Lacour has been curator of the photographic collection at the Musée du Quai Branly since 2018. She curated the exhibition Hoda Afshar: Performing the Invisible (2025) and has co-curated several international exhibitions, including Revisiting One’s Past (Musée Théodore Monod – IFAN, 2026), Re-enchanting Our Lives (IFAN, 2025) and Inhabiting This World (IFAN, 2024), among others. Within the museum, she has also curated numerous installations in the permanent galleries. She was co-editor of Mondes photographiques, histoires des débuts, a reference work dedicated to the beginnings of photography outside Europe. Annabelle Lacour is a member of the selection committee for the Musée du Quai Branly Photography Prize, dedicated to contemporary photography. She researches the uses of photography in colonial and postcolonial contexts, as well as contemporary artistic practices that explore the history of viewing and the power relations implicit in photographic mechanisms.
Elisa Medde
Art historian and director of Foto Colectania
Born in 1981 in Nuoro, Italy, Elisa Medde is an art historian specialising in photography and visual culture. An editor, curator, writer and educator, Medde has been nominated for awards and has chaired international juries such as the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award, the Prix Elysée and the MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work. As a writer, her texts have appeared in FlashArt, PhotoEye, Time Magazine, Foam Magazine, Something We Africans Got, YET Magazine, Aperture PhotoBook Review, British Journal of Photography, and in several artists’ books. From 2012 to 2023, she was editor-in-chief of the renowned Foam Magazine, a publication that twice received the Lucie Award for Best Photography Magazine. In 2023, she received the Royal Photographic Society Award for her achievements as a photography editor. She is currently the director of the Foto Colectania Foundation in Barcelona.
María Ptkq
Cultural researcher and curator of Getxophoto
Born in Bilbao in 1976, María Ptqk holds a PhD in Artistic Research, as well as degrees in Law, Economics, DEA in International Public Law and Cultural Law, and a Master’s in Cultural Management. Her work focuses on the intersections between arts and technoscientific culture. She has collaborated with renowned institutions such as Medialab Prado, Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso, CCCB, Jeu de Paume, La Gaité Lyrique, and GenderArtNet. Some of the exhibitions she has curated include À propos du Chthulucène et de ses espèces camarades (Espace virtuel du Jeu de Paume), Ciencia fricción. Vida entre especies compañeras (CCCB and Azkuna Zentroa), Extinción Remota Detectada (LABoral) or Máquinas de ingenio (Tabakalera), among others. She is currently curator of Getxophoto, advisor to the publishing house consonni, and editorial mediator for .able journal.
Alejandro Acín
Founder of IC Visual Lab and artistic director of the Bristol Photo Festival
Born in Huesca in 1984, Alejandro Acín is a curator, designer and visual artist who lives and works between Spain and the United Kingdom. He is the founder of IC Visual Lab (ICVL), an independent cultural organisation that develops artistic, community and heritage projects, as well as directing the Bristol Photo Festival, where he works as Artistic Director. In this context, he has produced curatorial and editorial projects alongside institutions such as Bristol Museums & Archives, Arnolfini Gallery, Eastside Projects, Format Festival Derby and Photo Kathmandu. He has worked on activating historical archives such as Historical Photographs of China 1850-1950 (University of Bristol), The Nepal Picture Library and the British Empire & Commonwealth Collection, and has been a consultant for collections such as the Martin Parr Foundation Library. His publications have been internationally recognised by TIME Magazine, PDN Online, Photoworks, FOAM, British Journal of Photography and Aesthetica Magazine.
Jon Uriarte
Digital curator at Getxophoto and researcher
Born in Hondarribia in 1980, he is a curator, researcher and educator who works on the digital transformations of the networked image. He was the founder of Widephoto and conceptualised and coordinated the DONE Programme for three years, a project on reflection and visual creation promoted by Foto Colectania. He was also curator of Getxophoto (2020–2022), digital curator of The Photographers’ Gallery (2019–2023) and co-curator of Screen Walks, a digital broadcasting programme by Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery. He has carried out research projects at the MACBA Centre for Studies and Documentation in Barcelona and has collaborated with the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London Southbank University in supporting several research projects. He currently coordinates POV, a series of meetings for the digestion of digital culture at Medialab, Tabakalera (Donostia).
Victoria Ascaso
Transdisciplinary artist
Born in Zaragoza in 1989, Victoria Ascaso is a transdisciplinary artist, lecturer and researcher who explores the emotional relationships that arise from, through, and in conjunction with everyday technological devices, using practices based on participation, design and the performing arts. She holds a PhD in Contemporary Art Research from the University of the Basque Country (EHU). Previously, she studied a Master’s Degree in Contemporary, Technological and Performative Art at the UPV/EHU and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Her work has been exhibited at festivals and group exhibitions such as Tabakalera, Azkuna Zentroa, Festival MEM, Kaleartean, BideOtik, BLV-ART, Getxoarte and Etopia, among others.
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