Monica Allende

Artistic Director of Landskrona Foto Festival

About the Reviewer

Monica Allende is an independent curator/artistic director, consultant and educator. She is the Artistic Director of Landskrona Foto Festival and was GetxoPhoto International Image Festival Artistic Director from 2017 to 2019. She has also collaborated with WeTransfer as a Consultant and Creative Producer, and she was the director of FORMAT17 International Photography Festival. She is curating the Blues Skies Project, a multidisciplinary project with artist Anton Kusters and Ruben Samama, shortlisted for the Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize 2019. She collaborated with Screen Projects as a producer of ScreenLabs.

Allende was the Photo Editor at the Sunday Times Magazine, where she launched Spectrum, the award-winning photography section.

She is a visiting lecturer at the London College of Communication, London & EFTI in Madrid. She has also produced and taught creatives labs for FIFV in Chile, ScreenLab in London and Taskheil in Saudi Arabia. The Mentorship Business Programme for the University of Sunderland’s and workshop for Internazionale a Ferrara, WPP workshop Angola, Magnum Professional Practice, among many others, as well as WPP JOOP Masterclass.

She is dedicated to nurturing new and established talent and nominates photographers for prizes including the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the Prix Pictet, and The Joop Swart Masterclass/ WPP.

Allende is also a reviewer and ambassador for Reminders Photography Stronghold in Japan and Docking Station in Holland.

Language Proficiency

English, Spanish